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Building Power for Healthy Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Most importantly, the initiative was focused on the policy-related goal of health equity, not greater community power. During its decade-long journey through Building Healthy Communities, TCE learned many lessons that continue to inform its approach to grantmaking and social change advocacy. Community grantees knew better.

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Better Climate Funding Means Centering Local and Indigenous Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Public funding agencies, such as the Global Environment Facility and USAID, are also expressing their own intentions to get more climate and biodiversity funding to local, community-level, and Indigenous organizations. These changes are possible for both public and private funders.

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Paving a Better Way: What’s Driving Progressive Organizations Apart and How to Win by Coming Together

NonProfit Quarterly

As part of this work, we rigorously read and discussed Maurice Mitchell’s article about key trends and fallacies in progressive movement organizations and the dimensions of organizational resilience needed to win. The first core concept is that while nonprofit organizations are part of social movements, they are not the same thing.