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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. Rather, policy prevents it.

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Announcing the Mid-South Nonprofit Conference Speakers!

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

We are excited to announce that the conference will return to in-person attendance at the University of Memphis, Thursday, April 20th. The Conference + Catalyst are presented by Momentum Nonprofit Partners in partnership with the Institute for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership, Department of Public and Nonprofit Administration.

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Facial Recognition Technology’s Enduring Threat to Civil Liberties

NonProfit Quarterly

According to research from the University of Colorado Boulder , since the systems were trained on faces that reinforce the gender binary, they are also deficient in recognizing genderqueer, nonbinary, and transgender people. Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (February 2020): 145–151.

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Segregation Helped Build Fortunes. What Does Philanthropy Owe Now?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

That remains true even if that wealth was donated to promote a public good. Universities are starting to confront their legacies and ties to slavery. Admittedly, there are key distinctions between universities and foundations that make such a move unlikely and difficult. Foundations could follow this model.

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The New Problem-Solving Skills That All Cities Need

Stanford Social Innovation Review

These skills helped Leuven, Belgium—named the European Capital of Innovation in 2020—develop what Mayor Mohamed Ridouani calls a “radical participation approach” to climate change: Leuven 2030 brings together more than 600 government, nonprofit, university, and business partners together under a plan to make the city carbon neutral by 2050.

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Using ‘Purple Glasses’ to Achieve Gender Equity in Mexico

Stanford Social Innovation Review

We both have worked across a variety of disciplines, including teaching, ethics, economics, architecture, and design. Bridging the University-to-Workforce Gender Gap Many academically accomplished women struggle to surpass barriers and achieve top positions and competitive salaries after they graduate from college.

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The Promise of Impact Science

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As a result, the best that policy makers can do is to rely on lists of previously evaluated model programs that are considered “evidence-based.” ” This approach constrains the universe of choice for policy makers and doesn’t advance our understanding of why some programs work and others do not.