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What Will Replace 'Checkout Charity' After Big Retailers are Gone?

Selfish Giving

Over a decade the retailer had raised $100 million dollars for the hospital's cancer care and research, making Kmart the hospital's biggest donor in its 50+ year history. "It Behind all the smiles and applause in Memphis was the cold truth that online retail would soon steamroll Kmart into oblivion. Next $100 million in five years!

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Starting From Scratch: Boston’s Heal the Hood

NonProfit Quarterly

Now, each Sunday, 20 to 25 volunteers spend five hours delivering a months worth of groceries, including meats, fresh produce, clothes, sneakers, and other essentials, to about 200 homes in Boston public housingwith no help from grocery or retail stores as part of Heal the Hoods Feed the Hood program. Rich people dont help us.

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How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate

NonProfit Quarterly

In the first half of the 20th century, the crisis of rural electrification ended when the government enabled neighbors to access loans for building their own electric co-ops. Mutualists do not expect governments to solve their problems for them, but Horowitz stresses that enabling public policy is necessary for mutualism to flourish.

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How TIFs Impact Racial and Economic Justice at the Local Level

NonProfit Quarterly

This money is effectively sequestered until the government deems a project worth investing in, which often means the money goes to wealthly, mostly White developers for megaprojects that do more harm than good to the surrounding communities. billion from the public till, funding otherwise destined for public schools, parks, and libraries.

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Commentary: The Full Potential Of The Social Sector  

The NonProfit Times

That freedom has enabled them to conquer new horizons in business, revolutionizing online retail, the electric car market, and even the commercial space market. Jody Levison-Johnson, Ph.D., LCSW What makes Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos successful entrepreneurs is their ability to innovate and think outside of the box.

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Reclaiming Heritage: The Global Push for Repatriation of Looted Artifacts

NonProfit Quarterly

She has also worked on cases involving the return of multiple objects to Iraq that had been illegally imported to the United States by the craft retailer Hobby Lobby. “A Governments delay the process; museums often answer to wealthy donors, not foreign countries; and complexities arise that require each case to be handled individually.

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How to Choose a Cause for Cause Marketing

Selfish Giving

You can save butterflies from extinction, fight water waste from leaky faucets or petition the Chinese government to release the Pandas. People complain about “Pushtober” but the reason so many retailers slap on pink ribbons in October is because breast cancer supporters are active and loyal shoppers.

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