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Building Public Support for Employee Ownership: Lessons from Colorado

NonProfit Quarterly

This number is somewhat deceptive since it includes large public companies where the only employee benefit is stock ownership. Colorado’s Story Colorado is home to some of the country’s most favorable cooperative laws. Barriers to Capital: Many practices and policies limit potential employee-owners’ access to capital.

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How Freelance Journalists Are Moving from Precarity to Solidarity

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Ridofranz on istock.com A new US Department of Labor rule restores protections for misclassified workers and could help reduce the precarious status of freelance journalists, according to Samantha Sanders of the Economic Policy Institute. We are dispersed and face anti-worker laws,” Higgins said in an interview.

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The Case for Reparations in Philanthropy

NonProfit Quarterly

Co-produced with the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), this series will examine the many ways that M4BL and its allies are seeking to address the economic policy challenges that lie at the intersection of the struggle for racial and economic justice. No reparations policies have passed into law yet. We are committed.

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9 Core Responsibilities of Nonprofit Board Members

Nonprofit Fixer

Note that this is for US 501(c)(3) public charities, not private foundations. Responsibility 1: Nonprofit Boards Set and Enforce Policy At the most basic level, boards are the governing body of the nonprofit organization. For example, state law might dictate that there must be at least three board members and three officers.

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Key Legal Issues in Influencer Marketing (+Related Laws & Some Legal Tips)

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Key Legal Issues in Influencer Marketing (+Related Laws & Some Legal Tips) Social media is powerful. Understand the laws governing this digital marketing strategy. Specifically, it falls under social media marketing. Social media channels usually have famous people with a lot of followers. billion this year.

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How Private Equity Is Swallowing Up Health Care—And What to Do About It

NonProfit Quarterly

Private equity—that is, investor groups that operate outside of the stock market, thus being largely shielded from public investor scrutiny—plays a leading role. The community also benefits as public and community institutions keep earnings in their local economies rather than passing profits to investors. Where does all this money go?

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AI and the social sector

Philanthropy 2173

I've been to the conferences and workshops, read the listservs, talked to the researchers and read some of the research, played with the public tools. Lots of executive orders and unfunded government mandates and policy proposals pushed by tech companies. Photo by JJ Ying on Unsplash Ah, AI. Can't avoid it. Lots of press.