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Collaboration Across Social Boundaries: A Practical Guide

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The leaders of a nonprofit community garden want to help residents move up the value chain by selling food products from their homes, but state law restricts food production to commercial kitchens or farms. Changing the law will require lobbying strategies, connections to policy makers, and legal expertise. Spend time in another city.

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Rising To The Top: Founder, CEO on Supporting All WOC To Succeed

Fundraising Leadership

We want to bring together women of color and provide them educational content.” “ “We don’t want another networking organization,” @Ajwhyte_esq says. “We After two years she transferred to the University of Florida, graduating in 1999 with degrees in political science and business, and the intention of going to law school.

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Getting to Know Our Consultants: Christy Gilmour

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

on Capitol Hill, and working for a law firm in their lobbying group. Tell us about any formal education, certifications, etc. Double Major In Political Science and Spanish Tell us a success story about your work with a nonprofit in Memphis. Got a phone call asking for help! I have spent time in Washington, D.C.

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What Does It Mean to Dismantle Racial Capitalism Anyway?

NonProfit Quarterly

Robinson, a professor of political science and Black studies. 11 A study by the MacArthur Justice Center at Northwestern Law School in Evanston, IL, found that ShotSpotter has a false alarm rate of 89 percent. To us, this looks like improved access to healthcare, housing, and education. We know a better world is possible.

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[VIDEO] Creative Ways People Contribute to Community

Bloomerang

So she’s talking about what does it look like to bring folks together about STEM education and how do we talk to donors and our volunteers and our, you know, supporters of any kind about the work that we’re doing using different techniques that ground us. So I might say something like what was your experience with education?

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

This was not so often the case in the 1960s, when civil rights laws were passed and long-term employment, at least in unionized sectors, was the norm; it is the case today. The Politics of Movements How have movements responded to the causes and effects of skyrocketing inequality? 46 Education in community economics is also key.

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How to Confront the Affordability Crisis: Use the Ballot to Raise Wages

NonProfit Quarterly

The federal minimum wage level is absurdly inadequate, but a silver lining is that cities and states can set higher wages than the floor established by federal law. Of course, a full minimum wage with tips on top would reduce workers’ dependence on tips and, therefore, reduce these racial inequities.