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Building Power for Healthy Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

To allow community organizers and community priorities to lead the way, BHC planning meetings became a node for resident-led organizations to connect, build relationships, access resources, and collaboratively shape campaigns and initiatives around community-defined priorities.

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Living into a Childhood Commitment: A Conversation with Cyndi Suarez and Kaytura Felix

NonProfit Quarterly

And she saw a lot in a place where the mantra was that children should just be seen and not heard, right? And after a brief moment, she walked back into the office, trailed by her three children. KF: These are established schools of personal and organizational development. Kaytura Felix: That little girl saw a lot.

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Paving a Better Way: What’s Driving Progressive Organizations Apart and How to Win by Coming Together

NonProfit Quarterly

Worker organizing can help staff secure higher wages, more reasonable workloads, and workplace grievance protections, for instance, but unionization does not necessarily move these other power holders and stakeholders to shift broader practices around power that go beyond the staff, and may close off new forms of organizational collaboration.