NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In the first half of the 20th century, the crisis of rural electrification ended when the government enabled neighbors to access loans for building their own electric co-ops. Mutualists do not expect governments to solve their problems for them, but Horowitz stresses that enabling public policy is necessary for mutualism to flourish.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

First, democratic funds like Seed Commons, 4 Ujima Fund, 5 and the Just Transition Integrated Capital Fund gave us a new model for how communities could steward and govern capital together. The passage of the THRIVE Act prioritized renewable, environmentally sound, ethically sourced energy production, from development to deployment.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 8, 2023

Image Credit: Jorm Sangsorn on istock.com Worldwide, civil society—from NGOs to grassroots activist groups to social movements to unions—is being undermined by global conflict, suppressive governments, the erosion of democratic institutions, and the spread of disinformation.

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NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Community Production Purpose: End our dependence on monopoly manufacturers, energy producers, big tech, and Big Pharma, and autonomously manufacture the appropriate technological instruments required to meet our basic material and social needs within the ecological capacities of our communities and environments.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Much of this struggle takes place outside government, but the role of the state is important. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Democracy (OECD)—a group of 41 relatively wealthy nations, including the United States—in 2019, US government spending (federal, state, and local) equaled 38.1

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2024

4 But considered more broadly, corporate capture extends far beyond the capture of a few government agencies; indeed, over time, it has developed a stranglehold on our economy and life. But even absent open dictatorship, US government today is less a democracy than a plutocracy, ruled by the wealthy few.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The threat of increased taxation feels more real than in decades, given how the sector has been scrutinized by Congress lately. Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith (R-MO) and other tax-writing Republicans devoted significant time and energy investigating various corners of the tax-exempt sector. Prominent Washington, D.C.

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