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How Policy Is Building a Social Economy in South Korea

NonProfit Quarterly

Today, it has the tenth-largest gross domestic product in the world. 1 This citizen activism prompted government action to honor the sacrifice. But these “self-sufficiency productive communities” struggled mightily for capital and adequate business opportunities, particularly as the economic crisis hit.

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23 Leaders Selected for 2022 Advancing Racial Equity on Nonprofit Boards Fellowship

NonProfit Leadership Center

This transformational, 15-week program is designed to strengthen the board governance knowledge and skills of professionals of color while equipping nonprofit organizations to be genuinely ready to welcome these new members onto their boards. Karen Lewis, VP of information technology, Franklin Templeton.

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¡Adelante! A Latinx Community Organizes to Generate Community Wealth

NonProfit Quarterly

Promoting equity—by which we mean breaking down the barriers for people of color to live a dignified life—requires active efforts to dismantle racial and structural inequities. In 2020, they started to sell their products and foodstuffs in local farmers markets in the Washington County communities of Forest Grove and Cornelius.

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Linking Our Fights to Win: On Combatting Elite Capture

NonProfit Quarterly

There are other materially influential sectors of public and private life—the military, the media, the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors—that aren’t organized around profit in the same way that economic production under capitalism is, but that are also top-heavy in politically meaningful ways. OT: Yes, thanks for doing this.