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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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Employee Ownership Policy Makes Major Gains—Next Up, Implementation

NonProfit Quarterly

Employee Ownership as Economic Development The CHIPS and Science Act aims to boost domestic research and manufacturing of semiconductors in the United States. It may not be immediately clear the connection between semiconductors and cooperatives; manufacturing makes up just a little over five percent of the worker co-op field.

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Lessons From the Failures of Covax

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For COVID-19, the IP used to develop the mRNA vaccines should have been shared widely, with technical support to expand manufacturing to global majority countries. Public mistrust of governments’ ability to act with their interests in mind existed long before COVID-19, but the pandemic accelerated and hardened this skepticism.

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Appeals Court Rules Funding Process A Contract, Not A Grant

The NonProfit Times

So American Alliance’s alleged injuries don’t show “a real controversy with real impact on real persons” among its membership… Rather, they reflect an attempt to manufacture an ‘injury’ to allow American Alliance to challenge the Contest. That is not enough for standing.”

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Segregation Helped Build Fortunes. What Does Philanthropy Owe Now?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

To understand Morris Cafritz’s activities required reading on the history of Washington DC, on the history of real estate development, and on race and public policy. When that happens, the goal is to contextualize what direct evidence is available in increasingly broad concentric circles. It was profitable to do so. As historian N.D.B.

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Of Myths and Markets: Moving Beyond the Capitalist God That Failed Us

NonProfit Quarterly

The National Association of Manufacturers, for example, saw its membership fall from over 5,000 businesses to fewer than 1,500. NAM, however, found a successful rebuilding and rebranding strategy in the mid-1930s as it became a central organizing arm of a movement to re-legitimize business in the eyes of the public and discredit the New Deal.

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Combining AI Breakthroughs and Better Policy to Defeat Superbugs

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Forestalling this future demands an aggressive effort to invent, manufacture, and distribute new and better antibiotics. By vastly accelerating the antibiotic discovery process, generative AI—together with sound public policy—could play a part in solving the life-and-death struggle against AMR. But it’s still early days.