Governance, Manufacturing and Public Policy

Employee Ownership Policy Makes Major Gains—Next Up, Implementation

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 28, 2023

Representative Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) The shape of government relations for worker co-ops has experienced a massive shift in the past five years. It may not be immediately clear the connection between semiconductors and cooperatives; manufacturing makes up just a little over five percent of the worker co-op field. How does this work?

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Reimagining the Role of Business in Protecting Biodiversity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

To combat this crisis, governments and international bodies have turned to diverse policy frameworks for biodiversity preservation at national, regional, and global levels. These policies hold a clear expectation for global corporations to engage in and promote biodiversity conservation and restoration.

Public and Social Policy

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Segregation Helped Build Fortunes. What Does Philanthropy Owe Now?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 30, 2024

The conversations remain small and overdue, but recent momentum is notable with new organizations , publications, resources, and frameworks exploring how philanthropy can—and, in the eyes of many, should—engage the movement for reparations in the United States. And, how did those conditions favor some over others? It was profitable to do so.

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Lessons From the Failures of Covax

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 25, 2023

Having helped lead the management office for COVAX Delivery, I present lessons learned from the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines—the largest public health intervention in human history—to better prepare for and mobilize responses to the future.

Public and Social Policy

Public and Social Policy Manufacturing Health Finance

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

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 19, 2023

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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Combining AI Breakthroughs and Better Policy to Defeat Superbugs

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Forestalling this future demands an aggressive effort to invent, manufacture, and distribute new and better antibiotics. By vastly accelerating the antibiotic discovery process, generative AI—together with sound public policy—could play a part in solving the life-and-death struggle against AMR.

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Report Assesses Impact of Philanthropic “Big Bet” on Employee Ownership

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The second area of gains is in the realm of public policy. The second area of gains is in the realm of public policy. For Viafara, “working with cities and local government” has been vital to speeding this process. But Lingane also stresses the importance of the government partnerships that were generated.

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Excessive Wealth Has Run Amok—This Must Stop

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

It’s time to change public policy to do away with excessive wealth and its corrosive effects on our lives, our society, and our democracy. Conceptually, the threshold for excessive wealth would be the point at which an individual can take the government hostage or otherwise damage democratic institutions.

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A Political Roadmap to Social Housing: How Do We Win?

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Politicians are influenced by money as much as or, frankly, often much more than votes, and public policy is the product of calculating trade-offs between the two. The hub will educate and guide tenants to manage or own their own housing and support various resident and community governance structures.

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Corporate Power That Benefits All of Us

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 17, 2024

It’s time to work shoulder-to-shoulder with civil society and government to do the big, urgent work that no sector can accomplish alone, to adopt entirely new systems of operating that enable all people to thrive and reach their full potential and protect our natural environment.

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

What would it take to fully fund the human capital, governance, and advocacy costs of nonprofits? Another piece of this painting would look like a landscape of advocacy and policy change institutions that prioritize racial and economic justice to level the playing field. If not, why not? More than 1.1

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Unlikely Advocates: Worker Co-ops, Grassroots Organizing, and Public Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

Up to this point, legislation for most worker co-ops was not a priority; federal policy wasn’t even a pipe dream. Public policy wasn’t really a part of our culture. Why Prioritize Public Policy and Advocacy? 6 Engaging in public policy advocacy is not without its dangers. Until it was.

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Organizing the South—How Black Workers Are Challenging Corporate Power

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Oil was replaced by textiles, which were then replaced by retail and heavy manufacturing. 9 Today, manufacturing is the top industry in the South employing Black men—for Black women, it’s the healthcare industry. 8 As industries shifted and new clashes arose between the old ruling class and the new 1 percent, workers organized.

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Corporate Capture—Can We Find a Way Out?

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2024

The aircraft manufacturer Boeing, granted the authority by the Federal Aviation Administration in 2009 to self-certify compliance, uses that authority to cut regulatory corners—with tragic results. But even absent open dictatorship, US government today is less a democracy than a plutocracy, ruled by the wealthy few.

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Employee Ownership Policy Makes Major Gains—Next Up, Implementation

Reimagining the Role of Business in Protecting Biodiversity

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Segregation Helped Build Fortunes. What Does Philanthropy Owe Now?

Lessons From the Failures of Covax

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

Combining AI Breakthroughs and Better Policy to Defeat Superbugs

Report Assesses Impact of Philanthropic “Big Bet” on Employee Ownership

Excessive Wealth Has Run Amok—This Must Stop

A Political Roadmap to Social Housing: How Do We Win?

Corporate Power That Benefits All of Us

Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

Unlikely Advocates: Worker Co-ops, Grassroots Organizing, and Public Policy

Organizing the South—How Black Workers Are Challenging Corporate Power

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