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How the Wealthy Took Control of Nonprofits

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Karl Solano on Pexels Nonprofit boards often uphold outdated power structures, prioritizing elite control over true community accountability. By shifting from power-hoarding to power-sharing, nonprofits can create governance structures that truly align with their missions. But this doesnt have to be the norm.

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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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How to Fight Power by Building Power

NonProfit Quarterly

From poverty wages to sky-high rents to environmental disasters, many of the crises we face today are linked to outsized and entrenched corporate power. Corporate dominance and the pursuit of profit has destabilized our economy, pushed our climate to the breaking point, and fueled the rise of right-wing authoritarianism.

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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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A Letter to Philanthropy: Saviorism Will Not Save Our Ecosystems

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Downside Up by Rene Lapris Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s fall 2024 issue, Supporting the Youth Climate Justice Movement. I was accepted and enrolled in a program, at the (now defunct) School for International Training, titled Amazon Resource Management and Human Ecology.

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How to Restore the Care in Long-Term Nursing Care

NonProfit Quarterly

This article is, with publisher permission, adapted from a more extensive journal article, “ A Tax Credit Proposal for Profit Moderation and Social Mission Maximization in Long-Term Residential Care Businesses ” published last year by Nonprofit Policy Forum. These statistics hold true across time and national boundaries (Brennan et al.