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

NonProfit Quarterly

So too is collaboration. BlacSpace is a cooperative that brings together expertise in real-estate ownership and development, cooperative structures, business systems, art making, activism, and cultural anchoring, stimulating conversations about cultural kitchens and a unique collaboration to cultivate them.

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Can Cities Be the Source of Scalable Innovations?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Social enterprises such as car-sharing programs are changing the nature of urban transportation and providing alternative options to individual car ownership. In turn, they can shape the actions of mainstream businesses in the city that tend to adopt social innovations more slowly.

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Newsletter: Lessons from NPR's Fact-Checking of Water.org's Super Bowl Ad

Selfish Giving

I'm a member of Carol Cone's Purpose Collaborative, and during last month's community call I challenged my fellow members to pick the number of cause-related ads that would air during the Super Bowl. The line of shea butter products is being distributed through retailers such as Whole Foods, MGM Resorts and Amazon. The winner?

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Reimagining the Role of Business in Protecting Biodiversity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Collaborating with local conservation groups, Indigenous communities, and other experts allows companies to craft tailored restoration strategies specifically designed for the ecosystems impacted by their operations. Instead of constructing a new office, manufacturing or retail site, companies can first restore existing buildings.

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Impact Investing Can’t Deliver by Chasing Market Returns

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Our experience has been crystal clear—just getting our principal back (and being able to recycle any return into another social enterprise) is a huge win—one we are absolutely comfortable with. By definition, PRI regulations ensure that there must be an “impact” in investing. Kresge alone provided $3.6

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The Invisible Rural Access Barrier

Stanford Social Innovation Review

World Bicycle Relief (WBR), a nonprofit social enterprise (where the other two authors of this article work) helps to solve that challenge by distributing bicycles to individuals like the three women above. Bridges to Prosperity is working to address this gap by collaborating with technology partners (e.g.,