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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

This was seen as a politically smart means to avert White backlash. A 1996 political science journal article, for example, argued that policies were most likely to be effective in addressing race and economic inequality if they were targeted to benefit Black Americans but “advanced and defended on universalistic grounds.”

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Corporate Capture—Can We Find a Way Out?

NonProfit Quarterly

10 As nonprofits attempt to solve social problems, they must solicit both government funding and private funding from philanthropy and, occasionally, even from corporations. 11 Lindblom wrote this more than 30 years before the US Supreme Court’s decision of Citizens United , which removed many restrictions on corporate political spending.

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Reading List: Strengthening Democracy Through Social Innovation

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This year’s Frontiers of Social Innovation convening, “ The Role of Social Innovation in Democracy ,” will gather international leaders from nonprofit organizations, philanthropy, academia, research, business, and government to debate and discuss the role that social innovation plays in creating a more just and democratic society.