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Executive Director

Anedot

More about us: www.welcominghome.org Current Staffing: For the l ast eight years, the two founders have led the organization on a pro-bono basis, with one heading up program management and development and the other focusing on finance and board management. Have managed annual cash budgets of between $300K – $600 K.

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The Invisible Rural Access Barrier

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This lack of rural access (RA) particularly impacts young girls and women living in poverty, who are often left behind when it comes to education, health-care services, and opportunities to generate income. This isolation severely limits access to health care, education, nutritious and plentiful food, and economic opportunity.

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How Can We Make Employee Ownership the Norm Rather Than the Exception?

NonProfit Quarterly

Consider Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank (and leader of Bangladesh’s interim government ), who brought the idea for lending to the poor to mainstream banks in the early 1980s.The banks challenged Yunus to prove it could work, and he did —first in one town, then five. Employee-owned businesses are more profitable and productive.

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Building Economic Resilience in the Rust Belt: Buffalo’s Growing Co-op Network

NonProfit Quarterly

We are a community-led resource center, a team of cooperative business developers and educators, and a community-controlled non-extractive loan fund. The cooperative model is less about centering profit, but more about centering people,” explains Sim. Doing for Ourselves Buffalo is known for powerful snowdrifts and pro football.

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New York Brings Power to the People

NonProfit Quarterly

It was a classic neoliberal strategy for industry management: deregulation would create a more competitive and efficient energy system, which, in turn, would lower ballooning energy costs and allow renewables to enter the market. Management by former private-sector workers is only one part of the energy sector’s problem.

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Nonprofit Holiday Gift Guide

Nonprofit Megaphone

This holiday season, give back by shopping for unique gifts from nonprofit online stores. In this gift guide, you’ll find selections from nonprofits that you won’t see in regular shops. What’s more, your purchases from nonprofit shops will support the essential work of these organizations and the individuals they help year-round.

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How Machine Learning can Contribute to Social Good

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

How Machine Learning can Contribute to Social Good Now is the right time for businesses, governments, and non-profits to consider ML applications that go beyond automation and improving bottom lines, and figure out how can they use these innovative technologies to contribute to society.