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Ancestor in the Making: A Future Where Philanthropy’s Legacy Is Stopping the Bad and Building the New

NonProfit Quarterly

2 It has been edited for publication here. In cities like Richmond, California, and Boston, Massachusetts, which had experienced ‘food apartheid,’ the need for locally grown, healthy food supported the rise of urban farms that employed returning citizens. The year is 2053. The buzzing of delivery drones fills the air.

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Building a Solidarity Economy in the South (and Beyond)—Cooperation Jackson

NonProfit Quarterly

4 Our accomplishments are minor in comparison to what we would have achieved had we had the full support of the municipal authorities and institutions, buttressed by a beneficial set of policies and procedures that supported local labor, procurement, and production.

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Corporate Capture—Can We Find a Way Out?

NonProfit Quarterly

And, over time, the for-profit corporation has occupied more and more social space; its tentacles reach into politics , our economy , our daily life , and—perhaps most insidiously—our culture and ideas. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.”

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The Break with Corporate Neoliberalism That Wasn’t—The Biden Years

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Getty Images on Unsplash+ In May 2024, demand for food pantries in the Chicago area reportedly had risen 26 percent , a year after food stamp benefits had been cut nationally by an average of $328 per family of four. As Branko Marcetic observed in Jacobin , there was a massive contraction in the US social safety net.