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Collaboration Across Social Boundaries: A Practical Guide

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The leaders of a nonprofit community garden want to help residents move up the value chain by selling food products from their homes, but state law restricts food production to commercial kitchens or farms. Changing the law will require lobbying strategies, connections to policy makers, and legal expertise.

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What Does It Mean to Dismantle Racial Capitalism Anyway?

NonProfit Quarterly

1 The profits from this trade were fundamental to the forming of a transnational capitalist class—and, of course, provided money that could purchase more human beings from West Africa. Robinson, a professor of political science and Black studies. This human trade continued for over 200 years. “The

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All You Need: 7 Key Reasons To Attend Take The Lead’s Power Up Concert & Conference

Fundraising Leadership

of law degrees, 47.5% Yet very few women hold the highest positions of leadership in the academic, legal, corporate or political spheres.” When she decided to stop practicing law to take care of her autistic son, the actress and producer Debbie Allen hired her to lead and scale up her dance academy. politics.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

This was not so often the case in the 1960s, when civil rights laws were passed and long-term employment, at least in unionized sectors, was the norm; it is the case today. The Politics of Movements How have movements responded to the causes and effects of skyrocketing inequality?