Momentum Nonprofit Partners

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Monitor Legislation that Impacts Your Nonprofit and the Communities you serve Nonprofits must be legislative watchdogs for three key reasons: Impact awareness: New laws affect funding, operations, and beneficiary eligibility. Public trust: Monitoring shows commitment to responsible use of resources and best serving beneficiaries.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 12, 2024

And many of these things—probably starting with the Penobscot River Restoration Project, 1 but stretching back this last decade or two—mark a shift in education and insight and a new form of activism, I think, by us as Wabanaki people. They don’t just happen automatically without some of that Land Back politics, law, policy kind of thing.

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Ken Goldstein

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

In these contentious political times, those of us in the social services field may feel the need to be more vocal about policies that effect our clients and our missions, while simultaneously facing pressure to "not rock the boat" or be controversial. Please feel free to borrow and adapt this policy for use in your organization.

Activism 45

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 29, 2023

Facing this crisis, new social economy movements emerged in Korea, not only as an immediate response to the neoliberal economic crisis, but also as a visionary long-term alternative for building a different kind of economy. 1 This citizen activism prompted government action to honor the sacrifice. percent in October 1997 to 7.6

Public and Social Policy 101

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EveryAction

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Lambda Legal Lambda Legal is the oldest and largest national legal organization whose mission is to achieve full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and those with HIV through impact litigation, education and public policy work. Southern Poverty Law Center. Make the Road New York.

Public and Social Policy 76

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Advocacy and organizing for racially equitable housing policies is a cornerstone of building a just housing system in the United States. COVID-19 has exacerbated this crisis, and the country’s recent racial reckoning has heightened awareness of the need for racially equitable housing policies to support healthier communities.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

“RULER OF THE EARTH” BY YUET-LAM TSANG Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” How do social movements come to make the language of economic systems change their own? We think it can. We think it can.

Public and Social Policy 76

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NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

Image Credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang In August 2018, the first legislation explicitly naming worker-owned cooperatives—the Main Street Employee Ownership Act—became United States federal law. Up to this point, legislation for most worker co-ops was not a priority; federal policy wasn’t even a pipe dream. Until it was.

Public Policy 75

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2023

These narratives not only evoke emotions that affect our behavior—they also help directly shape our public policy priorities. In rewriting the story of who is deserving, as a country we must define what reparations could look like for the lasting effects of the transatlantic slave trade, slavery, and legalized anti-Black policy.

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Amid growing debt and a stagnant economy, 2022 has seen a resurgence of student debt activism pushing for total cancellation. The data is clear: student debt is a racialized form of social control that perpetuates inequality—and cancelling it is necessary for racial and gender justice. The Problem of Student Loan Debt.

Public and Social Policy 118

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