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How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate

NonProfit Quarterly

Decades of policy changes, however, often under the radar, today inhibit many diverse kinds of association. [We We need] the means to build associations that are powerful enough to successfully challenge the economic powers that be. Mutualism is the right to associate let loose in the economy. This must be rectified.

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Rough Draft of a Nonprofit Social Media Policy

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

During last week’s webinar on Creating a Social Media Policy for Your Nonprofit , we used the Policy Tool for Social Media to create a rough draft of a policy. What resulted is a crowd-sourced rough draft of a nonprofit social media policy (link to a Word doc for you to download).

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Policies for Housing With Heart

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Such forms of living, however, have huge economic and social costs, as over-stressed and under-supported parents must attend to their children and aging parents from their isolated apartments or homes. That means transforming the zoning regulations, financial structures, and social patterns that separated them, just over a century ago.

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The Promise and the Power of Social Cooperatives

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Getty Images on iStock The democratization of social care realigns the roles of state and civil society within a larger framework of social and political transformation. The SABSA healthcare cooperative is one of over 11,000 enterprises in the province of Quebec’s distinctive social economy. “We

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Can Labor Save Higher Education as a Public Good?

NonProfit Quarterly

Even the traditional national teacher unionsthe National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT)are dominated by members working in K12 systems, not higher education. This view is truly disruptive of historic social relationships and university hierarchies. This simple organizing slogan caught on.

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Drivers Cooperative-Colorado: Building a Social Co-op for Rideshare Drivers

NonProfit Quarterly

One powerful way to change this and support gig drivers is by creating a cooperative, specifically a social cooperative. Social cooperatives share the same goal as other cooperatives, including following a principle of one person, one vote in organizational governance. A] unique feature of social cooperatives is their social mission.

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Ensuring The Right To Free Association Online

The NonProfit Times

These spaces are the backbone of our democratic right to free association, and they are increasingly under threat. It provides a way of thinking about building policies, procedures, and structures in online spaces. This can engender public cynicism and directly impact those organizations trying to support their community members.