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How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Photo by Darla Hueske on Unsplash Travel across the United States today, and you’ll find in many small towns a towering grain elevator or a similar agricultural edifice looming over the rusty train tracks. Often, these structures bear the faded letters “CO-OP” painted on the side. Yet there’s also some truth to the depiction.

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Anchoring Communities: How to Combat Displacement Through Asset Ownership

NonProfit Quarterly

Owning space—whether for housing, business, or agriculture—is a critical piece of communities’ resistance and long-term stability. Space isn’t just a physical location but rather the foundation for resilience, cultural expression, and long-term autonomy. The path to community ownership isn’t easy, however.

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Report: Native Communities Are a High-Impact, Often Overlooked, Opportunity for Funders

NonProfit PRO

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[ASK AN EXPERT] Should Fundraiser Salaries Correlate With How Much Revenue They’ll Generate?

Bloomerang

The organizations culture of philanthropy (or lack thereof). neurology, pediatrics, or oncology at a hospital; agriculture, engineering, or sciences at a university). The finance directors understanding of their role in helping put together compelling donor offers. A donor database and tools that facilitate one-to-one fundraising.

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Bridging for Environmental Justice across Space and Time: Cambodia and the US South

NonProfit Quarterly

In a video posted by Human Rights Watch in 2021, villagers describe the displacement, loss of natural resources, and erosion of cultural connection that they faced after being moved to resettlements when the dam was constructed. 1 The project, which was in development from the 1990s on, has been operational since 2017.

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Enlisting Men to Build a More Caring World

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Many of these workers are engaged in the agricultural sector. Alongside standard agricultural interventions such as farmer field schools and training in good harvest practices, this initiative included a couples self-assessments and group discussions of gender norms and division of household roles, responsibilities, and resources.

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What Will It Take to Reimagine Security?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Vertical networks are important, but new and better lateral crosswalks will enable leaders and organizations to learn from and lean into one anothers deep expertise, spanning issue spaces, cultures, and geographies.