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Pathways to Democratic Business: What Two Co-op Networks Can Teach Us

NonProfit Quarterly

Here, I focus on two of the book’s US case studies: Industrial Commons , a textile manufacturing network based in North Carolina; and Obran , a worker co-op holding company based in Baltimore that has gained national prominence. But the manufacturing decline hit many regions outside the Rust Belt, including western North Carolina.

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The AI Mirror—How to Reclaim Our Humanity in the Age of Machine Thinking

NonProfit Quarterly

The AI Mirror by DALL-E 3/OpenAI.com/DALLE Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? AI models are mirrors that are manufactured to produce certain kinds of reflections of human intelligence.

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Marketing Tips for Solving Global Problems

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

These huge organizations, apart from making big profits by advertising and selling their product, these companies also work on social and environmental issues that are occurring in the world. Let’s discuss some of the globally occurring problems and how marketing resources can help in their management by raising awareness.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

With the WORK Act, tens of millions of dollars in government resources will be disbursed to employee-ownership centers around the country, fundamentally changing the playing field for worker-owners, freelancers, and cooperative innovators. What we have here is the kernel of a potent agenda for “non-reformist reforms.”

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Building a Solidarity Economy in the South (and Beyond)—Cooperation Jackson

NonProfit Quarterly

Image: “Color My World” by Yvonne Coleman Burney/ www.artbyycolemanburney.com Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.” places of collective stewardship of the resources provided by Mother Earth) that can produce and provide the goods and services we need.

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What Does It Mean to Dismantle Racial Capitalism Anyway?

NonProfit Quarterly

“UNABLE TO INTERVENE” 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.” economy, worth more than all manufacturing and railroads combined.” Imagine this. This human trade continued for over 200 years.

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Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Historically, the Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) has been used as a term to capture these important upstream, non-medical drivers of health. For example, a solution to help Elisa manage her diabetes might not work in her community because of the cultural or economic barriers that are present.

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