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How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate

NonProfit Quarterly

Decades of policy changes, however, often under the radar, today inhibit many diverse kinds of association. [We Public policy needs to facilitate large-scale financing for mutualist enterprises—organizations like cooperatives , employee-ownership trusts , and mutual insurance companies. This must be rectified.

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Day in the Life of a Nonprofit Communicator – Nicole Gustafson

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Jackson Center’s social media accounts and oversees the production of the quarterly newsletter, press releases, promotional materials, and other communications. 12:00pm – 2:00 pm – By now, I’ve usually done bigger projects or more urgent tasks that I keep for the morning since that’s when I have the most energy.

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From Impact Investing to “Impact-First” Investing—What Is the Field Learning?

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: PeopleImages on iStock What does impact investingthat is, investing with social benefit in minddemand of investors? Many in the field have long held it demands virtually nothing, that an investor can have a social impact without sacrificing a penny of their own.

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Encouraging Human Creativity in the AI-Powered Future

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Thats why, in public policy circles, we must nurture and reward innovation in as well as from AI. We need policies that support a robust system of IP rights in order to develop successful AI models. Throughout this processimproving, applying, and using AIthe human element is essential.

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Puerto Rican Advocates Pursue Community Control of Renewable Energy

NonProfit Quarterly

In its wake, a grassroots movement to create distributed, renewable energy has gained considerable ground. The logic behind this community movement for distributed, community-owned renewable energy is clear. Public Policy: A Hit and a Miss Are the lessons of Hurricanes Maria and Fiona being taken to heart?

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What’s Your Start Agenda?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As Liz McKenna, an assistant professor of public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School has empha siz ed , “Social movements often operate over years, decades. Seven years later, social movements for the most part have proven this theory to be right. Why is that?

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With Help from the Donors of Color Network, Two Organizations Are Creating Change

NonProfit Quarterly

The Right to Be Free from Environmental Harm The Deep South Center for Environmental Justice (DSCEJ) works toward equity and justice in environmental, energy, and climate policies. Kresge’s support has allowed PSE to continue to impact communities through a cross-disciplinary coalition between their Just Energy and Just Health teams.