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Coleading as an Act of Rebellion

NonProfit Quarterly

Unsurprisingly, the dominant narratives favor models that overlook multi-value-based identities (including age, class, ability, and so on), and rarely consider how these identities coalesce within coleadership dynamics rooted in social movements and Indigenous communities. How do we acknowledge where we may be colluding with these systems?

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The Past and Future of Black Co-ops: A Conversation with Jessica Gordon Nembhard

NonProfit Quarterly

From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world. It is not just values and principles of cooperation. So, she started the co-op.

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When It Comes to Promoting Prosperity, Production Beats Consumption

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Even philanthropists working on the economic issues of jobs and incomes tend to sidestep the root problem of how to strengthen an economy’s productive capabilities. It diverts our attention from the core challenge of building high-value production, which developing countries themselves know is the key to their prosperity.

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Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This approach would also systematically integrate socio-economic issues such as co-locating affordable housing and transit. Amartya Sen suggested we should measure social context based on its ability to give individuals and communities the freedom and capability to pursue the things they value in life.