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Building Power in Rural and Tribal Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Community leaders identified the issues the community thought most important. At the time, there were few nonprofit organizations, and none with the core mission of doing intersectional, values-based community organizing and leadership development.

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Movements Are Leading the Way: Reenvisioning and Redesigning Laws and Governance for a Just Energy Utility Transition

NonProfit Quarterly

Moreover, a significant proportion of utility governing boards comprises utility workers and frontline community members. Although established in a more progressive era, when the public interest held more sway, microeconomic and market values have since come to dominate utility governance.

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