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Preserving Cambodia Town: How A Refugee Community Has Organized Itself

NonProfit Quarterly

These days, in Long Beach, you will find Cambodian art walks, night markets, and other community gatherings. Participating youth help us in outreach events, get paid an hourly wage as interns to pass out information, run children’s art programs, paint murals, and facilitate public-participation art projects.

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Why Artisans Are Building an Alternative to Etsy

NonProfit Quarterly

Long before the rise of the platform economy, artisans were already regarded as self-employed and outside the protection of national labor laws. Using a community-powered verification system that doesn’t rely on bots, artisans moderate the marketplace themselves, motivated and incentivized by the cooperative business model.

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Taking Steps Toward Disability Inclusion in China

Stanford Social Innovation Review

percent of the population, China has enacted more than 60 laws and regulations aimed at safeguarding the rights of individuals with disabilities, encompassing those with visual, auditory, linguistic, physical, intellectual, psychological, and multiple disabilities. China is no exception to this global issue.

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Setting a Co-op Table for Food Justice in Louisville

NonProfit Quarterly

Meanwhile, a proliferation of farmers markets fueled the local food movement but marginally addressed food access. Two White women and one Black woman, who shared a history of food and farm activism, led the initial campaign to form Louisville Community Grocery. Some of these projects were top-down in conception and execution.

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Fundraising Is the Most Transferable and Relevant Skill for Your Life and Your Resume

Nonprofit Fixer

Public speaking and active listening are also fundamental to working with donors, both individuals and institutions. Finally, the act of donor solicitation requires bringing all these skills – storytelling, writing, public speaking, and active listening - together. Our motivations are for the common good and the public interest.

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¡Adelante! A Latinx Community Organizes to Generate Community Wealth

NonProfit Quarterly

According to a 2020 report from the National Women’s Law Center, in terms of lifetime income over a 40-year career, that gap costs the average Latina over $1.163 million. 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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Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Massive investments in climate solutions such as carbon markets, CO2 sequestration, and energy alternatives had no material effect on slowing global warming. Impoverished individuals are treated as passive recipients of solutions, with no active role in the process. Real progress seems elusive. The problem has gotten worse.”