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Empowering Community Voices: The Strategic Advantage of Nonprofit Advisory Committees

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Instead, they serve as partners in your work, representing the community you serve and even boosting the productivity of your workforce. In this case, you might look towards people who have experience either with the legislative process or with advancing public policy through coalition building, for example.

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Building the Mutual Economy: A Conversation with Steve Dubb, Rithika Ramamurthy, and Manuel Pastor

NonProfit Quarterly

So, how do we create in this economic space co-ops, community land trusts, collaborations of co-ops? If I convince people when they make an argument for equity, they should talk about it not just in terms of fairness and inclusion but in terms of prosperity and productivity, I feel like I’ve more than won the argument.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

11 Nor are the economic data any more encouraging when one measures inequality by race. Until quite recently, many economic justice movement organizations were “race neutral” in their approach. 21 In other words, until quite recently, it was considered politically smart for economic justice groups to avoid talking about race.