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Collaboration Across Social Boundaries: A Practical Guide

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The leaders of a nonprofit community garden want to help residents move up the value chain by selling food products from their homes, but state law restricts food production to commercial kitchens or farms. Changing the law will require lobbying strategies, connections to policy makers, and legal expertise.

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[VIDEO] Creative Ways People Contribute to Community

Bloomerang

And I’ll give you about 30 seconds or so to activate. I know people are transitioning from meetings and … so please activate the survey. So that’s how you sort of lay that foundation, you start activating it, and then you progress. So with all that extra time to spare, I got activated, right? Here we go.

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Unlearning to Relearn: An Interview with Stephanie Bowman of Mothers Out Front

NonProfit Quarterly

Iris Crawford : What led you to climate activism and eventually to Mothers Out Front? So, I went to college at Hampton University and studied political science. After graduation, I worked for a law firm focusing on discrimination cases and began to see Kansas City’s various injustices first-hand.

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