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The Next Generation of Mutualism

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Sara Horowitz You can feel it when you walk into a mutualist space for the first timewhether its a worker cooperative in North Carolina , a community garden , a labor-housing cooperative , a cohousing group in New York City, a nonprofit building in Portland, Oregon , or a social cooperative in the Italian Alps.

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Nonprofits Need Equity Too: The Case for Providing “Enterprise Capital”

NonProfit Quarterly

Credit: Morgan Housel on Unsplash The funding landscape for nonprofits has undergone a seismic shift. Todays model for funding nonprofits and social enterprises is fundamentally broken. This means providing funding with the purpose of investing in the capacity of nonprofits to invest in their own enterprises.

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Medical Ship Docks in Sierra Leone for Free Surgeries and Training

NonProfit Quarterly

In August 2024, the Global Mercy, the world’s largest civilian hospital ship, docked at the port of Freetown for a 10-month field service to provide surgical operations and educational training by invitation of the government of Sierra Leone. In Sierra Leone, for example, the nonprofit is currently serving a majority-Muslim population.

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What Does Centering Native Justice Require? A New Report Has Answers

NonProfit Quarterly

One involves the unfilled legal, moral, and economic obligations established by hundreds of treaties with the US government. And a third are limits on Native representation in the US government itself. One critical finding is that many non-Native people support Native language and cultural preservation.

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What San Antonio Can Learn from Its German Sister City amid a Rise in Migration

NonProfit Quarterly

Darmstadt, a city of more than 168,000, is striving to balance the influx of newcomers while also managing the social and economic implications of diversifying populations. From Kyiv to Darmstadt Yulia Ihnatieva fled Ukraine with her dog, Bella, and her two children a month after Russia launched an invasion of her country.

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Busting the Overhead Myth

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

How can nonprofits convince stakeholders to invest in capacity building? Capacity building is whatever is needed to bring a nonprofit to the next level of operational, programmatic, financial, or organizational maturity, so it may more effectively and efficiently advance its mission into the future. What can I do?

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A Primer for Incubating Child Care Businesses

NonProfit Quarterly

The need to develop more childcare businesses is obvious, but how to build and sustain viable childcare businesses is not. the community development financial institution where I work, lends to families and businesses throughout the state of Maine. What can be done to address this gap? Coastal Enterprises, Inc.,