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Drivers Cooperative-Colorado: Building a Social Co-op for Rideshare Drivers

NonProfit Quarterly

Social cooperatives share the same goal as other cooperatives, including following a principle of one person, one vote in organizational governance. DCC aims to obtain more contracts with local government agencies to provide increased service to people with disabilities, people living on low incomes, and elderly people.

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How Nonprofits Can Navigate Political Engagement and Maintain Public Trust

NonProfit Quarterly

Taxation with Representation of Washington , which held that the Section 501c3 prohibition of substantial lobbying was constitutional, concluding that an organization’s right to speak need not be subsidized. See Regan v.

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How Communities Around the World Are Connecting Social Isolation and Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

And Loneliness Awareness Week 2023 in Australia generated calls to action for more research, normalizing discussion about the issue, empowering communities to address weak social connections, and establishing a peak body, a national leadership organization to spearhead change. But they can’t operate in a void.

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Of Myths and Markets: Moving Beyond the Capitalist God That Failed Us

NonProfit Quarterly

Conway of Caltech, titled The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market , examines the role of corporate propaganda. Musgrave offers a more satisfying answer, writing, “I understand neoliberalism as a governing rationality that directs state action in favor of the market” (177).

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

NonProfit Quarterly

First, democratic funds like Seed Commons, 4 Ujima Fund, 5 and the Just Transition Integrated Capital Fund gave us a new model for how communities could steward and govern capital together. Two things changed how wealth was managed. New policies were passed that mandate that corporations and private foundations pay land taxes to local Tribes.

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Civil Society Undermined by Conflict, Disinformation, and Repression of Protest

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Jorm Sangsorn on istock.com Worldwide, civil society—from NGOs to grassroots activist groups to social movements to unions—is being undermined by global conflict, suppressive governments, the erosion of democratic institutions, and the spread of disinformation. There is a need for transnational, rights-based solidarity.”

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Social Housing: How a New Generation of Activists Are Reinventing Housing

NonProfit Quarterly

Some point to large-scale, government-run rental housing, while others also explicitly include housing cooperatives and community land trusts. But in the end, governments dragged their feet and promised change stayed on the drawing board. But that hasn’t stopped movements from pushing.