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

NonProfit Quarterly

Everyone has the energy they need to survive and thrive. Our homes can withstand the bitter cold and extreme heat, and no one gets sick or dies prematurely for lack of affordable energy. 7 Legislators and regulators often allocate public dollars for clean energy technologies through partial incentives, rebates, or tax incentives.

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Wartime Digital Resilience

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Even before the conflict, we in government believed that technology holds the promise of making government more transparent, efficient, and accountable, empower citizens, increase participation, and combat corruption. Nearly 19 million Ukrainians, or about half of Ukraine's population, use Diia.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

“RULER OF THE EARTH” BY YUET-LAM TSANG Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” How do social movements come to make the language of economic systems change their own? We think it can. We think it can.

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The Great Awakening, and Workers’ Fight to Stay Woke

NonProfit Quarterly

2 Democracy is not just a system of political practices; it must be applied to participation and decision-making in all aspects of our economic lives as well. Both aim to socialize the risks of operating a business while limiting the profitable rewards among a select few. 7 But it’s not just California where workers are making gains.

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18 Nonprofit Metrics You’re Not Using – But Should

Nonprofit Fixer

Remember, we started our nonprofits to solve problems, not to spend all our energy proving our worth and asking “how high” when funders tell us to jump. Policy and structural change are powerful, but take longer. People are motivated by goals. For nearly a decade, there wasn’t a clear and identifiable policy in Washington, D.C.

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The BIG List of Donor Benefits, Perks, Incentives, and Ways to Show Donors Your Appreciation(150+)

Nonprofit Fixer

You can collaborate with other nonprofits in your region or in your issue area to investigate whether you can all offer benefits for each other. Publicity Many sponsors and donors want recognition for their support. For events, ongoing series, or recurring celebrations online, consider the following options for publicity: 1.

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Why Settle for Cookie-Cutter People and Culture Practices?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Phil Buchanan , Alyse d’Amico & Leaha Wynn Organizational performance depends on thoughtful policies and practices with respect to employees and culture. At the same time, we work to ensure the process is reasonable and efficient for candidates, in order to be respectful of the time and energy of those we interview.

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