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Collaboration Across Social Boundaries: A Practical Guide

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The leaders of a nonprofit community garden want to help residents move up the value chain by selling food products from their homes, but state law restricts food production to commercial kitchens or farms. Changing the law will require lobbying strategies, connections to policy makers, and legal expertise.

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Corporate Partnerships & The Law: Unrelated Business Income Tax (UBIT)

Selfish Giving

requested guidance on in the Selfish Giving / Accelerist Partnership Law Survey you completed last year. has a corporate partner, Cool Products Co., a portion of the purchase price from sales of a particular product. This is the final part of a four-part series on the four key legal issues you - my readers!

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

NonProfit Quarterly

These structures go beyond the physical infrastructure of poles, wires, and pipes to encompass the culture, laws, institutions, and power structures that shape who gets to live today and who gets to live—and even thrive—in the coming decades. As one example, the Reimagined Energy For Our Communities U.S.

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The Long Shadow of Workplace Surveillance

Stanford Social Innovation Review

We analyzed and created a database of more than 550 tech products, companies, and investors developed in the last five years that are working to digitize all aspects of employment, from recruitment to hiring to productivity and risk monitoring, to see how radically these “little tech” corporations are changing the nature of work today.

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Leveraging AI in Social Work: A Pathway to Empowering Vulnerable Populations

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Collaboration between social work professionals, technical engineers, and communities is essential to developing AI systems that are ethical, unbiased, and aligned with social work values and human rights principles. The Future of AI in Social Work The future of AI in social work is full of potential.

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Why Organizers Need Mobilizers and Mobilizers Need Organizers

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The implication is that we need to approach social change not like we are seeking a silver bullet, but rather in search of collaborative principles that allow different people power strategies to coexist and stimulate productive change together. Central Coordination In 2015 and 2016, GetUp! Rather than acting alone, GetUp!

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Why Tennessee Needs a Statewide Nonprofit Association

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

billion, accounting for 10% of the Gross State Product. With new leadership at each of the organizations, the CEOs of these organizations decided to come together to create better avenues of communication and collaboration. Nonprofits need to engage at the state level to ensure those laws are fair and appropriate.