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Appeals Court Rules Funding Process A Contract, Not A Grant

The NonProfit Times

The full ruling is available here: [link] “The majority ruled that an 1866 law designed to provide economic freedom to newly-freed slaves actually prohibits the Fearless Foundation from providing grants to Black women. Schwartz, partner at law firm Gibson Dunn & Crutcher wrote to The NonProfit Times. “As

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Reimagining the Role of Business in Protecting Biodiversity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

manufacturing and service organizations), reducing their land footprint entails optimizing the utilization of existing built spaces, infrastructure, and parking areas. Instead of constructing a new office, manufacturing or retail site, companies can first restore existing buildings.

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Segregation Helped Build Fortunes. What Does Philanthropy Owe Now?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Darity and Kirsten Mullen , “the capable and culpable party” that set and enforced policies and laws to actively build the assets of white families and destroy the assets of Black families. This move recognizes the federal government as, in the words of scholars William A. And, how did those conditions favor some over others?

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Excessive Wealth Has Run Amok—This Must Stop

NonProfit Quarterly

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. To interrupt this pattern, public policy must, at minimum, implement policies that tax wealth to cut down on the excessive concentration of wealth over time.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

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. Democratic governance models such as CLTs, co-ops, and mutual housing might mollify some community opposition, but policy change is imperative.

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

The co-op movement in Puerto Rico comprises a range of credit unions, youth co-ops, and co-ops in many other sectors, including farming, trade, manufacturing, services, transportation, and housing. Worker-owned co-ops and benefit corporations are additional public policy frameworks for a just economy. More than 1.1

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang In August 2018, the first legislation explicitly naming worker-owned cooperatives—the Main Street Employee Ownership Act—became United States federal law. Up to this point, legislation for most worker co-ops was not a priority; federal policy wasn’t even a pipe dream. Until it was.