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From Policy to Power: Centering People by Supporting Tenant Unions

NonProfit Quarterly

In this environment, a new generation of tenant organizers has emergedpeople who understand that the single best place to connect with community members is at their door, talking about the single biggest economic issue facing their family.

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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. We also learn the value and skills each person brings to the struggle.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

It is not just values and principles of cooperation. It is not just the way I have tried to add the values and principles of solidarity economics. But this notion for subaltern groups, especially Black Americansof how to conceptualize and then engage in and practice an economics that does connect back to our humanity.

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A Growing Movement for Black Food Sovereignty

NonProfit Quarterly

Many Black entrepreneurs and farmers center social justice in what they do—playing important roles in solving Black social and economic issues, for example, by providing employment and mentorship, prioritizing the needs and desires of Black people, who are often underserved or ignored by other markets, and fostering community.

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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.

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Recentering Philanthropy toward Social Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

So, for example, this concept that Latinx donors might not necessarily be aligned with social justice values; or that Asian Americans just can’t pick a side—are nonpartisan. We like to say our values are joy, power, and community. We like to say our values are joy, power, and community. CS: Interesting.