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How the Facing Race Conference Is Meeting the Political Moment: A Conversation with Leslie Grant-Spann

NonProfit Quarterly

The evolution includes not only thinking about policy as a way to move the needle on racial justice here in the US but also looking at how people are contributing to racial justice movement making through art, culture, narrative development, communications, cultural organizing, innovation, and technology. What will it take?

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How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate

NonProfit Quarterly

Decades of policy changes, however, often under the radar, today inhibit many diverse kinds of association. [We Public policy needs to facilitate large-scale financing for mutualist enterprises—organizations like cooperatives , employee-ownership trusts , and mutual insurance companies. This must be rectified.

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The Promise and the Power of Social Cooperatives

NonProfit Quarterly

Many suffered from addictions, as well as hepatitis C or HIV/AIDS, and some, especially immigrants, lacked a government health card despite Canada’s national healthcare system. The provincial government agreed to help underwrite worker salaries. The governance model for solidarity co-ops is a multi-stakeholder approach.

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What’s Essential? Author, CEO, Founder on What Leaders Need To Do Now

Fundraising Leadership

I think we have a culture of magic bullets and immediate gratification. What is the governance around AI, so you have to teach people how to use it and the impact it will have. This corporate cultural shift is one reason Smith and Monahan wrote this book. Smith completely agrees. AI can be a very powerful tool.

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Monitoring Inequality: The Case for Widening Access to Innovations in Diabetes Management

NonProfit Quarterly

Advocating for Change Public policy solutions are necessary to narrow the healthcare gap. Governments and healthcare providers must recognize the potential for CGMs to improve diabetes outcomes and take the steps required to make them more accessible for everyone.

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Co-op Federation Seeks to Shift Worker Co-op Movement into a Passing Gear

NonProfit Quarterly

Worker co-ops are businesses owned and governed by their employees. In Chicago, speakers surveyed the growth of the past 20 years while setting forth goals to bring worker co-ops fully into the economic mainstream through movement infrastructure, public policy, and culture building.

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Sharing Meals

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Another path leads to it being purchased by a “farm incubator” who will make it available to refugee farmers growing culturally meaningful crops and contributing to their economic mobility. About 20 percent are seated within government. One path leads to this arable land being sold to a developer and turned into a small strip mall.