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Why Nonprofits Need a Values-Based Social Media Strategy

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: dole777 on unsplash After more than a decade of dominating the social media landscape, Big Tech platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are in flux. Meta—the parent company of Facebook and Instagram—has been under fire in the past few years over its lax policies on news content, data privacy, and misinformation.

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How Communities Around the World Are Connecting Social Isolation and Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Paul Cann Current global estimates suggest that 1 in 4 older adults experience social isolation, and 5 to 15 percent of adolescents experience loneliness. Weak social connections cause a higher risk of early death; these are also linked to anxiety, depression, suicide, dementia, and the increased risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke.

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Building Public Support for Employee Ownership: Lessons from Colorado

NonProfit Quarterly

While the National Center for Employee Ownership defines employee ownership as “any arrangement in which a company’s employees own shares in their company or the right to the value of shares in their company,” in a worker cooperative, ownership means not just sharing profits, but having a direct voice and vote in the workplace.

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Shifting the Harmful Narratives and Practices of Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Drazen Zigic on istock.com Work requirements—or requiring people to find employment in order to access public benefits—force people to prove that they deserve a social safety net. But where did they come from, and why are they still a central part of economic policy today? So, what keeps them alive today?

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Unlocking the Power of Data Refineries for Social Impact

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Social progress, on the other hand, shows a very different picture. What explains this massive split between the corporate and the social sectors? In other words, companies are benefiting from a culture of using data to make decisions. The public sector isn’t much different.

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Announcing the Mid-South Nonprofit Conference Speakers!

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

The Conference + Catalyst are presented by Momentum Nonprofit Partners in partnership with the Institute for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership, Department of Public and Nonprofit Administration. Our speakers Xavier Ramey is the CEO of Justice Informed, a social impact consulting firm based in Chicago, IL.

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Why Artisans Are Building an Alternative to Etsy

NonProfit Quarterly

Business publications once celebrated how the internet helps artisans thrive. Many crafts, such as sewing and quilting, were considered “women’s work,” allocated as much value as doing the laundry. There were complaints that Etsy was inconsistently applying policies requiring items to be handmade.