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Do you have a Nudge Unit? Maybe you should.

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

The behavioral economists behind the favorite book Nudge are advising UK policymakers (and the Obama administration) on how to use insights into how people think to advance public policy. Here’s what The Economist says: A set of trials in Britain focused on energy efficiency.

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2024 Nonprofit Voter Guide

MNA Association

Nonprofit leaders play an important role in shaping public policy. That includes supporting both patients and providers at our state’s non-profit healthcare organizations. If re-elected, I’ll make sure that my door remains open to Montana’s non-profits, just like it is to all Montanans.

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Reimagining the Role of Business in Protecting Biodiversity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As one executive passionately said in a recent interview, “climate action is non-negotiable, but the race to outpace biodiversity loss is even more crucial. Our planet, and our profits, hinge on it.” For companies operating in non-land-based sectors (i.e. Contribute to ecosystem restoration.

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Unlikely Advocates: Worker Co-ops, Grassroots Organizing, and Public Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

Up to this point, legislation for most worker co-ops was not a priority; federal policy wasn’t even a pipe dream. Public policy wasn’t really a part of our culture. Why Prioritize Public Policy and Advocacy? What we have here is the kernel of a potent agenda for “non-reformist reforms.” Until it was.

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Organizing the South—How Black Workers Are Challenging Corporate Power

NonProfit Quarterly

10 And new industries are growing at a record speed, including the film industry in Georgia, which is beginning to outpace Hollywood 11 and reap big profits for industry leaders at the expense of Black workers in low-wage positions. Oil was replaced by textiles, which were then replaced by retail and heavy manufacturing. 1 at the box office.

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The Call of Leadership Now: BIPOC Leaders in a Syndemic Era

NonProfit Quarterly

Very few leaders entered this work in order to build a professional career, but many of us have reluctantly or even unconsciously channeled our energies into surviving the nonprofit and philanthropic industrial complex as an end in itself. TLC fellows come from organizations that are building long-term power for and with BIPOC communities.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

Can this movement energy coalesce into a cohesive vision? 4 We see, too, movement energy in the organizing at Amazon, at the over 200 Starbucks branches that have unionized, in the new vigor behind the pursuit of worker cooperatives and community land trusts. Can this movement energy coalesce into a cohesive vision?