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Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

NonProfit Quarterly

The Black mother within each of us —the poet—whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free. You, your partner, and your children are greeted by name, maybe even with warm hugs. You are asked how you are doing and can tell that the person asking genuinely cares. Art by Black artists graces the walls.

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Unlikely Advocates: Worker Co-ops, Grassroots Organizing, and Public Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

The following month, alongside our co-organizer the Democracy at Work Institute and in conjunction with the eighth biannual national worker co-op conference, the U.S. Up to this point, legislation for most worker co-ops was not a priority; federal policy wasn’t even a pipe dream. The tides were turning.