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Rethinking Food Culture Might Save Us

NonProfit Quarterly

Imagine a future where the ways we grow, cook, and gather around food affirm our relationships to the places we live, to the people who came before us, and to future generations. Imagine a future where we recognize care as the essence of all labor and appreciate all people’s labor, no matter the form it takes. food is life.

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The Great Awakening, and Workers’ Fight to Stay Woke

NonProfit Quarterly

Huddie William “Lead Belly” Ledbetter, 1938, describing the Scottsboro Boys and the climate for Black people in Alabama 1 It’s time to admit it. But they’ve asked us—institutional leaders with resources and capacity—to stay with them; to stay woke. Power doesn’t go away as the economy changes. Simple enough.

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The Big Chill: Why Nonprofits Should Care about Affirmative Action

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While college and university enrollment has declined for both white and Black students in recent years, the decreases are disproportionately larger when it comes to Black students. Thirty-four percent of Black adults have an associate’s degree or higher, as compared to 50% of white adults. Last June, the U.S.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

Building a more just and democratic economic system requires that people understand the problems of the current economic structure, propose democratic alternatives, and organize to make those ideas a reality. Can this movement energy coalesce into a cohesive vision? Can this movement energy coalesce into a cohesive vision? We think it can.

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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. 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.