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Organizing a Community Around Food Sovereignty

NonProfit Quarterly

At present, one of UNEC’s most critical projects is to convene a multi-partner collaboration in the city’s Northeast Corridor neighborhoods to transform our local food system. I’ve observed the inner workings of a complex food system that, when it functions well, nourishes our bodies, families, and cultures.

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Newsletter: Why Social Media is Important to Corporate Partnerships ; Lamborghini Wears Mustache for Movember ; 100 Nonprofits That Raised the Most Money in 2020

Selfish Giving

Collaborate with others for inspiration. Bari's lucky that Auntie Anne's is part of a family of brands and she can collaborate with social media managers from Carvel, Cinnabon, Jamba and others. Brain Food 1. Better to be awesome at one or two channels than be mediocre on three or more. It's tough to be creative 24/7.

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Building Community through Holistic Strategy: A Story from a Seattle Immigrant Suburb

NonProfit Quarterly

The HUB repurposes a former public health center location on 8th Avenue, conveniently located n ear public transit and retail corridors and within walking distance of local schools. According to Sun and Rith, no one from the USDA Food and Nutrition Service ever called them to explain the appeals process.

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Newsletter: Are Unrealistic Partnerships Goals Setting You Up to Fail? ; 11 Ways to Build Your Credibility with Prospects ; More Nonprofits Should Experiment with ‘Dogfooding’

Selfish Giving

Collaboration counts. Retailers are bracing themselves for a challenging back-to-school shopping season. Brain Food 1. Maybe instead of counting meetings and deals closed, you'll have to settle for the number of new subscribers to your corporate partnership newsletter. Corporate partnerships don't happen by themselves.

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The Economic Case against Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

This series— Ending Work Requirements — based on a report by the Maven Collaborative, the Center for Social Policy, and Ife Finch Floyd, will explore the truth behind work requirements. For example, retail workers may have their schedules reduced due to poor sales or other reasons beyond their control.

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Reimagining the Role of Business in Protecting Biodiversity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Biodiversity Loss and Global Corporations The imminent loss of one million species presents a grave threat, impacting human health, food security, rural communities worldwide, and over half of the global GDP. Instead of constructing a new office, manufacturing or retail site, companies can first restore existing buildings.

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Gumbo for the Struggle: Recipes of Liberation from the Cultural Kitchen

NonProfit Quarterly

Our food is not scarcity-based stone soup but rather a rich, sumptuous, and nourishing gumbo for transforming struggle into an open, connected, and creative way of being—into livity. So too is collaboration. But money must be joined to art to build the thriving Black cultural world that we desire. Kaiser and the Calvin Simmons Theater.

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