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What’s Your Start Agenda?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As Liz McKenna, an assistant professor of public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School has empha siz ed , “Social movements often operate over years, decades. Doing only one or two of these things, Andrews stated, will ultimately impair the movements’ ability to create lasting change.

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Voter Engagement Coordinator

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Requirements Knowledge of Latino, immigrant, or low-income communities in Marin County Associate or Bachelor’s degree in social justice, social work, sociology, public policy, other related fields, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

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Excessive Wealth Has Run Amok—This Must Stop

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Malik Cıl on pexels.com I’ve been a student of inequality for a long time—as a curious child and later as a sociology professor. It’s time to change public policy to do away with excessive wealth and its corrosive effects on our lives, our society, and our democracy.

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Reading List: Strengthening Democracy Through Social Innovation

Stanford Social Innovation Review

People Power by Doran Schrantz, Michelle Oyakawa & Liz McKenna Excerpt from Prisms of the People by Hahrie Han, Liz McKenna & Michelle Oyakawa Coming Soon: SSIR’s Spring 2023 feature article on building a multiracial democracy by Angela Glover Blackwell Global Threats to Democracy March 14, 2023 at 10 a.m.

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Building the Mutual Economy: A Conversation with Steve Dubb, Rithika Ramamurthy, and Manuel Pastor

NonProfit Quarterly

And there are lots of bad ideas that become public policy because they’re tied to power. If I could convince those people that we should never think of economics apart from political economy, we should never think about policy change separate from thinking about movement building, my task will be done.