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With Help from the Donors of Color Network, Two Organizations Are Creating Change

NonProfit Quarterly

The Right to Be Free from Environmental Harm The Deep South Center for Environmental Justice (DSCEJ) works toward equity and justice in environmental, energy, and climate policies. Kresge’s support has allowed PSE to continue to impact communities through a cross-disciplinary coalition between their Just Energy and Just Health teams.

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The New Problem-Solving Skills That All Cities Need

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This required a sustained emergency posture and high degrees of creativity, agility, and collaboration. Tara McGuinness and Anne-Marie Slaughter position this as a new approach at problems that is distinct from traditional policy making and is people-centered, experiential, data-enabled, and designed to scale.

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Building an Equitable Future by Centering Young Voices

Stanford Social Innovation Review

If countries, including the United States , want to move toward a more equitable future for people of diverse genders, it is essential that decision makers, from policy makers to funders to organizational leaders, recognize and activate the potential of youth and LGBTQ+ people.

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Reimagining the Role of Business in Protecting Biodiversity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For instance, the start-up Solugen has developed a novel process that uses genetically engineered enzymes to process bio-based feedstocks into cleaning solutions, personal care products and other chemicals while eliminating toxic outputs and reducing energy consumption. Contribute to ecosystem restoration.

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Empowering Community Voices: The Strategic Advantage of Nonprofit Advisory Committees

Blue Avocado

2 Say you’re a nonprofit working in the area of houselessness and want to put together an advisory committee of people with legislative and policy development experience to advance systemic changes in your community. Work in Collaboration, Not Competition When done well, maintaining one (or more!)

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Lessons From the Failures of Covax

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Without an equally unprecedented level of coordination and collaboration—requiring rigorously examining the lessons of the pandemic response—all of us will be impacted by these future challenges, particularly people living in global majority (or lower- and middle-income) countries.

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It’s Not Just You: Bernie Sanders Makes the Case for Passionate Movements

NonProfit Quarterly

As public policy has done less and less to mitigate the suffering of millions, faith in the government has declined. But he also offers a blueprint for how to guarantee livable wages, liberate students from a lifetime of debt, and transition energy systems away from fossil fuels.