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

NonProfit Quarterly

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. Increasingly, worker co-ops are making public policy gains.

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Announcing the Mid-South Nonprofit Conference Speakers!

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

The Conference + Catalyst are presented by Momentum Nonprofit Partners in partnership with the Institute for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership, Department of Public and Nonprofit Administration. Our speakers Xavier Ramey is the CEO of Justice Informed, a social impact consulting firm based in Chicago, IL.

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Using data to make LGBTQ+ elders and their needs visible 

Candid

What public policies are needed to address the unmet needs of our constituents? What gaps exist in government data collection on LGBTQ+ aging that is leading to gaps in policy protections and services? Analyzing data to ensure program impact and effectiveness With an annual budget of $21.8

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Remaking the Economy: Building Regional Solidarity Economies

NonProfit Quarterly

What is the role of culture and the arts in the solidarity economy? How can community economic organizing build on African and Indigenous cultural traditions? How do solidarity economy activists join forces with labor unions, racial justice groups, and other social movement organizations?

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

NonProfit Quarterly

I’ve been doing social justice work for over 20 years now. When the organization first started convening people, the vehicle was a race and policy gathering that we did all over the country. Before that, it didn’t have a specific name or brand, but we had already begun to convene people, with the framework being race and policy.

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What’s Your Start Agenda?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As Liz McKenna, an assistant professor of public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School has empha siz ed , “Social movements often operate over years, decades. Seven years later, social movements for the most part have proven this theory to be right. Why is that?

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Eliminating Biphobia Through Breath, Brotherhood, and the Arts

NonProfit Quarterly

Breath and brotherhood are enormously important to the work of the collective of socially engaged artist-activists that I cofounded several years ago. Others wrongly believe that bisexuals enjoy all the same social privileges and advantages that straight people have. Culture is just as important.