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Building Public Support for Employee Ownership: Lessons from Colorado

NonProfit Quarterly

A recent study found that employee-owned businesses, defined as employee ownership of at least 30 percent of business shares, which all employees having access to owning, are more productive, grow faster, and are less likely to go out of business than non-employee-owned businesses. million active employee-owners.

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You Are Not The Expert: Tips for Designing Content for Communities Not Your Own

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

For the past 8 years, I have been nearly exclusively working with Black-led nonprofits and nonprofits that serve predominantly Black communities. In these roles, I have drafted communications strategy, public engagements, branding, and community report designs. Be present, be curious, be respectful. Know You Will Fail.

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Beyond Pledges: Building More Inclusive Capital Ecosystems

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Brandon on Unsplash The murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police three and a half years ago ignited a months-long period of mass social mobilization and intense public engagement. Those compounded impacts are starkly apparent.

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From Food Pantry to Urban Farming: Food Justice Lessons from Camden

NonProfit Quarterly

Dismantling barriers to food access requires clear strategies and methodologies that inform funding, drive policy, and guide community-based initiatives. While the answers remain complicated, we must use our collective power and community agency to address our needs. A Camden community vision emerges.

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How Climate Migration and Adaptation Is Reshaping Lives

NonProfit Quarterly

Salmora Village is another community on Majuli Island where people are facing climate migration. The village’s centuries-old pottery culture may soon vanish, along with the island itself, as the Brahmaputra River is eroding the clay that the potters, known as kumars , use.

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How to Align Assets with Mission: Small Steps That Nonprofits Can Take

NonProfit Quarterly

A salient example is of organizations that are focused on community development but invest in mass incarceration. Liquidity policies help organizations understand the resources needed to carry out ongoing operating activities, but even liquid assets can be managed with an eye towards mission.

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How to Eliminate the Myth of Meritocracy and Build the World We Deserve

NonProfit Quarterly

Co-produced with the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), this series examines the many ways that M4BL and its allies are seeking to address the economic policy challenges that lie at the intersection of the struggle for racial and economic justice. These racist stories then shape our policies for years and years.