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From Band-Aids to Blueprint: How Nonprofits Can Engineer Systems Change through Advocacy and Public Policy

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

By Andrea Hill, Chief program Officer, Tennessee Nonprofit Network Nonprofits are the cornerstones of our communities, tackling complex challenges from education and healthcare to environmental protection and social justice. And yes, the crux of systems change is built on advocacy and public policy.

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Shaping the Future: Why 501(c)3 Nonprofits Need a Powerful Policy Agenda

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

While 501(c)(3) nonprofits serve as cornerstones of positive change, addressing critical issues ranging from poverty and hunger to healthcare and environmental protection, their impact can be significantly amplified by stepping beyond direct service delivery. Is your mission to promote environmental sustainability? Combat hunger?

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Reimagining the Role of Business in Protecting Biodiversity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Rajat Panwar , Theresa Lieb , Sarah Federman & Matthew Betts The landscape of corporate environmental responsibility is evolving beyond a focus on climate issues to more holistically account for nature-related risks, such as biodiversity loss. Earth Engine is one example of Google’s environmental tools.

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MNA is searching for our next Executive Director

MNA Association

MNA’s staff team is engaged, collaborative, committed to growth, and passionate about MNA’s unique mission. Background Founded in 2001, the Montana Nonprofit Association (MNA) is a membership organization of over 700 charitable nonprofits and 100 affiliate members that promotes a strong nonprofit sector in Montana.

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The Other Maternal Health Crisis: Black Birthing People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing

NonProfit Quarterly

Collaboration across Disciplines and Settings Research partners highlighted in the briefing spanned multiple fields including medicine, midwifery, psychiatry, public health, and social science, among others. Though more research is needed, some meaningful qualitative research has begun to emerge.

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From Owing to Owning: How Communities Can Control Commercial Land

NonProfit Quarterly

Additionally, Duranti-Martinez points out, “Community ownership also means that the people most impacted by racial, economic, and environmental injustice have meaningful decision-making power over development” (7). Paul, tells Duranti-Martinez, for public policy to go beyond funding community ownership “experiments.”

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The Call of Leadership Now: BIPOC Leaders in a Syndemic Era

NonProfit Quarterly

We are living through a syndemic—a time of multiple crises causing seismic economic, political, environmental, technological, and social shifts, which are long from being settled. TLC’s theory of change requires transformation on four levels: individual , organizational , collaborative , and ecosystemic.