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Movements Are Leading the Way: Reenvisioning and Redesigning Laws and Governance for a Just Energy Utility Transition

NonProfit Quarterly

Energy and utility justice movements aren’t just imagining versions of this future but also are actively working to build them; yet the formidable power structures of the electric and gas utility system often stand in the way. As one example, the Reimagined Energy For Our Communities U.S.

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Political Repression in Georgia: What Funders Can Do to Protect Democracy and Support Communities

NonProfit Quarterly

This is part of a disturbing trend among law enforcement, reactionary prosecutors, and far-right politicians. After the murder of George Floyd, the FBI and local prosecutors in Phoenix attempted to define the protests as gang activity. A federal district judge has temporarily blocked this part of the law. The answers are clear.

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20 Leaders Selected for 2023 Advancing Racial Equity on Nonprofit Boards Fellowship

NonProfit Leadership Center

Tina James​ Senior Manager of Corporate Social Responsibility, Florida Blue Tina James, the senior manager of corporate social responsibility at Florida Blue, is one of 20 outstanding professionals of color selected to participate in the Nonprofit Leadership Center’s 2023 Advancing Racial Equity on Nonprofit Boards Fellowship.

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When Leadership Requires Keeping Your Hand On the Plow

Fundraising Leadership

She argued that those who had fought for suffrage should then shift their work to getting laws passed that would continue to expand women’s rights. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. Here’s the link to participate in person or virtually.

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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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Preserving Cambodia Town: How A Refugee Community Has Organized Itself

NonProfit Quarterly

One example is an arts program that is based on the well-established concept that arts participation relieves stress, boosts academic success, and provides healing through self-expression and socioemotional learning. About seven years ago, UCC launched Living Arts , which is open to youth of any culture or race, ages 14 to 24.

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The Great Awakening, and Workers’ Fight to Stay Woke

NonProfit Quarterly

2 Democracy is not just a system of political practices; it must be applied to participation and decision-making in all aspects of our economic lives as well. 11 Second, many of our efforts also failed to center workers’ full identities, underestimating the motivations that lead them to risk their livelihoods to organize.