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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. Listening to and valuing the knowledge from the user group gave rise to novel suggestions like a central mailbox system.

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The United Nations’ Innovation Learning Journey

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The types of individuals joining the UN are usually trained in negotiation, political science, and international relations, where technical know-how and managerial skills are not pronounced. ” Why? Because we would just keep hitting invisible barriers if we didn't work on this culture, this mindset.”

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What Does It Mean to Dismantle Racial Capitalism Anyway?

NonProfit Quarterly

Robinson, a professor of political science and Black studies. 29 In the world of work, it means actively challenging the “gig economy.” Lucy Dean Stockton, “Why the Left Needs to Change How It Fights,” interview with Bree Carlson, The Nation , October 5, 2022, thenation.com/article/activism/bree-carlson-interview.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

After all, if one has been unfairly terminated from a job, being reinstated due to a successful civil rights claim, while certainly still of value, is less valuable if the person, after being reinstated in the job, is likely to have to find another job within a few years. This was seen as a politically smart means to avert White backlash.

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[VIDEO] Creative Ways People Contribute to Community

Bloomerang

So that’s something that I really value, and I appreciate that. 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.

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[VIDEO] The Board’s Role in Fundraising & Resource Development

Bloomerang

And so, again, I am Sabrina Walker Hernandez, and I studied political science and public administration and I obtained a nonprofit management certification from Harvard Business School and for the last 25 years, I’ve worked in a nonprofit industry. And ask the kids not to kill themselves or each other for the next hour or so.