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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. Simply put, social change requires social collaboration. What, then, can be done to encourage boundary spanning?

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Get to Know Our New Director of Government Relations and Public Policy, Sherry Rout!

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

In 2022, due to her keen understanding of politics, her policy acumen, and her experience with the internal workings of local government, Sherry was appointed to Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris’ “Our Next Era” transition team that was tasked with mapping out the Mayor’s policy goals for the next four years in her home county of Shelby County, TN.

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Activating Loving-Awareness

NonProfit Quarterly

We cannot say that we know as a whole what these phenomena are, but we have caught glimpses in our models that these realities are possible; and, therefore, we have hope that our combined creativity, imagination, collaborative abilities, and technological innovations will shed light on these future collective realities.

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Get to Know Our New Director of Government Relations and Public Policy, Sherry Rout!

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

In 2022, due to her keen understanding of politics, her policy acumen, and her experience with the internal workings of local government, Sherry was appointed to Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris’ “Our Next Era” transition team that was tasked with mapping out the Mayor’s policy goals for the next four years in her home county of Shelby County, TN.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

This was seen as a politically smart means to avert White backlash. A 1996 political science journal article, for example, argued that policies were most likely to be effective in addressing race and economic inequality if they were targeted to benefit Black Americans but “advanced and defended on universalistic grounds.”

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A Planet to Win—Where Do We Start?

NonProfit Quarterly

Cohen and Aronoff’s perspectives on climate politics counter the paralytic defeatism of the U.S. political machine with the optimistic energy of organizing climate coalitions. The problems of climate politics become more complicated, however, when they expand to the planetary scale.