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Building Power in Rural and Tribal Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

A regional backbone organization— Wild Rivers Community Foundation , an affiliate of Humboldt Area Foundation—was tapped to manage the initiative in partnership with community leaders and TCE program officers and staff. Community leaders identified the issues the community thought most important.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Although established in a more progressive era, when the public interest held more sway, microeconomic and market values have since come to dominate utility governance. We can lead with justice toward a climate-resilient system that values everyone. 8 This system of publicly regulated monopoly utilities is still with us today.

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