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Collaboration Across Social Boundaries: A Practical Guide

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Karl Haushalter & Paul Steinberg A local public health official has been tasked with increasing vaccine use in an underserved community. Changing the law will require lobbying strategies, connections to policy makers, and legal expertise. Sometimes these social boundaries are academic disciplines.

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[VIDEO] The Board’s Role in Fundraising & Resource Development

Bloomerang

All we’ve been doing is emailing and maybe if we weren’t socially distanced, we would have met each other already. if you have a give policy in place and they have not given, does not mean that they don’t consider themselves family. Jeez, that’s, that’s pretty serious. . But you’re awesome.

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Reading List: Strengthening Democracy Through Social Innovation

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Within the social sector, nonprofit organizations and philanthropists are facing demands for greater inclusion, power-sharing, and more democratic governance. Eric Nee, editor in chief of Stanford Social Innovation Review , will moderate what is sure to be an inspiring and spirited discussion.

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A Planet to Win—Where Do We Start?

NonProfit Quarterly

2 Governments, corporations, and individuals are not actors with equal amounts of influence. 6 Yet social transformation on this scale has not historically happened without concerted struggle by ordinary people demanding what they need to survive. But the question of “we” has always been a fraught one.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

“RULER OF THE EARTH” BY YUET-LAM TSANG Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” How do social movements come to make the language of economic systems change their own? We think it can. We think it can.

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Corporate Capture—Can We Find a Way Out?

NonProfit Quarterly

4 But considered more broadly, corporate capture extends far beyond the capture of a few government agencies; indeed, over time, it has developed a stranglehold on our economy and life. But even absent open dictatorship, US government today is less a democracy than a plutocracy, ruled by the wealthy few.