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Thinking About the Long Term With Philanthropic Power Building

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Building a new narrative for social change is a complex and long-term endeavor. Many pieces of the old stories—like the virtue of hard work—have essential moral and ethical value. Philanthropy often conflates narrative change with messaging, then asks large communications firms to provide a “fix.”

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Capitalism, the Insecurity Machine: A Conversation with Astra Taylor

NonProfit Quarterly

The framework for this agenda was deliberately communicated using security rather than equality, the latter of which is a bit abstract. How can recognizing shared insecurity spur social change and create a strategy to redefine security? AT: To redefine security, we need to cultivate an ethic of vulnerability. Equality for what?

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The Challenge to Power

NonProfit Quarterly

5 As they did, many became politicized; so, they began pushing for economic and social policies that would end discrimination and redistribute resources to the masses at home and abroad. Baker eventually fell out of favor and left the organization, but the resistance she encountered at the organization persisted into the next decade.