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Building Power in Rural and Tribal Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Colonization set the stage for the development of a community fractured along racial and economic lines, centered on resource extraction with boom-and-bust economic cycles that have reverberated to the present day. Infrastructure, expertise, and knowledge are necessary for growing community power.

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Movements Are Leading the Way: Reenvisioning and Redesigning Laws and Governance for a Just Energy Utility Transition

NonProfit Quarterly

35 Since One Voice’s community involvement, member–owners have become board members, and cooperatives have begun to contribute to community benefits—including a grant to a local community college for its radio station and the development of a local playground for children.

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