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Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

She also lives in a food desert, which makes getting nutritious and affordable food difficult. The nearest fresh food grocer is three miles away, across the 101 freeway. She can afford one big shopping trip in the month and at the end of the month she visits the local food pantry to subsidize until she gets her next paycheck.

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Building Power in Rural and Tribal Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Though ecologically and culturally rich, the county ranks in the bottom eighth in California for per-capita income. For millennia, oceans, rivers, and forests provided an abundance of food and other resources for the residents of this area, until the late 1800s, when white settlers arrived and began to extract gold and timber.

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¡Adelante! A Latinx Community Organizes to Generate Community Wealth

NonProfit Quarterly

Adelante Mujeres (which means Forward, Women), the nonprofit where we work and which has operated for over two decades, seeks to answer this question. The program was launched by the nonprofit Adelante Mujeres during the Great Recession in 2008. How does a small Latinx community organize itself to support homegrown businesses?

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Teaching Cooperative Intelligence, for a Solidarity Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

Counts wrote during the roaring twenties, a pivotal era of cultural change which came after the 1918 influenza pandemic and was quickly followed by a seismic economic shift and the rise of authoritarianism across the globe. Aside from these cultural and ideological factors, there are the practical benefits. Sound familiar?