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Ep251: This Social Enterprise is Using Shea Butter to Grease Wheels of Progress for African Women

Selfish Giving

Her social enterprise Shea Yeleen markets and distributes high quality skincare products, while providing living wages to cooperative members in Northern Ghana. The line of shea butter products is being distributed through retailers such as Whole Foods, MGM Resorts and Amazon. LIKE THIS POST?

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The Next Generation of Mutualism

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The capital markets that can invest in social enterprise are chaotic and low-impact. billion; and co-ops and mutuals around Quebec, Canada, contribute $50 billion to Canadas gross domestic product. So how can we incentivize the creation and growth of mutualist social enterprise?

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Making Food Systems Work for People of Color: Six Action Steps

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Oladimeji Odunsi on unsplash.com How do you support development across the food system in a way that builds community ownership and power for Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities? This is a question that a group of food system activists of color have come together to address. This work is worth supporting.

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When It Comes to Promoting Prosperity, Production Beats Consumption

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In this sense, many international development philanthropies are neglecting the most powerful route to prosperity: productive employment in a thriving economy. Historically, these resources have only materialized when countries have achieved massive expansions of economic productivity and opportunity. The empirical record is clear.

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Day in the Life of a Nonprofit Communicator – Lauren Lawson-Zilai

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Lauren Lawson-Zilai is the director of public relations and national spokesperson for Goodwill Industries International , a social enterprise that provides job training to nearly ten million people a year through the sale of donated clothes and household goods. She tweets from @LaurenLLawson.

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Day in the Life of a Nonprofit Communicator – Amanda Maksin

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

SDD is a social enterprise of the Westmoreland Community Action (a nonprofit in Greensburg, PA), and is located in Mount Pleasant, PA. This provides money for the nonprofit programs like Head Start, mental health programs, food pantries, etc. Would YOU like to be featured in this series? It opened its doors in April 2012.

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How to Advance a Regenerative Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

Fellows include an Indigenous creatives’ collective, food share programs, a systems design consultancy, a driver’s union, and a community-owned real estate developer. Based in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District, R2G turns restaurant food scraps into compost for the neighborhood’s elder gardeners. R2G Volunteers.