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Powerful, Not Powerless: Emerging Approaches to Massive Action

Stanford Social Innovation Review

One major strategy to counter this fear lies in massive collaboration, a coming together of individuals, groups, and organizations at unprecedented scale to exert major influence on political and social events. Ready-made platforms for collaboration and broad connectivity mean that staggeringly fast mobilization is possible.

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#WeTheCivic: “America’s” Stories Can’t Be Told Without Us 

NonProfit Quarterly

Nonprofits are immigrant-led cooperatives and Native-run community clinics, LGBTQ+ aid networks and IEP advocates for students, schools for liberation and researchers for medical cures. This is our month-long narrative celebration of the unquenchable nonprofit and civil society voices fighting for our democracy—and our future.

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Rehearsing for the Revolution: Theater as a Tool of Democratic Imagination

NonProfit Quarterly

During each performance, actors and audiences collaborate to think critically about the social justice problems posed in the play, and brainstorm possible resolutions together. These examples include social action both in collaboration with, and in opposition to, formal political structures.

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Three Whys, Three Times (Blog)

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Their shared work model helps diverse groups of individuals or collaborations of multiple partners rethink the idea of alignment. “In In the hospital, they had already decided to act with medicine and medical procedures, so they were only assessing the situation with that in mind.

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Beautiful Solutions: A Conversation with Eli Feghali and Rachel Plattus

NonProfit Quarterly

Through Elandrias work at Highlander, we did a lot of collaboration with many folks on the education team at Highlander in particular. They took it to the Highlander team and really built the will inside of that organization. It was a form of mutual aid outside of the state. So many solidarity economy stories have that at their start.

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Transgender Rights Under Threat: Preparing for Federal Crackdowns

NonProfit Quarterly

Transgender activist and journalist Erin Reed has recommended that trans people consider reducing dosages or stockpiling medications. This might look like collaborating on projects, filing amicus briefs in court, supporting legislative efforts together, or other creative, tangible approaches to solidarity.

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From Unpaid to Unstoppable: The Rise of the Professional Community Health Worker Movement

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Together, were offering this case study to shed light on how innovative leaders are collaboratively building resilient health systems that can respond to future challengesfrom pandemics to climate-related disasterswhile expanding primary care access for all. CHIC has emerged as a pivotal system orchestrator for the proCHW movement.

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