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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

We know there’s a deep hunger in movements for an economy that people collectively own and democratically manage. 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.

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Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

He left his senior management position in Austria and purchased desert land North of Cairo where he and his family relocated. Several organizations have adopted strengths-based or assets-based practices ranging from community development in the Solomon Islands to working with homeless and disadvantaged people in the UK.

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Housing and Health: Creating Solutions With Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Decades of discriminatory housing, transportation, and land-use policy combined with economic disinvestment have resulted in communities that are residentially segregated by income, race, ethnicity, language, and immigration status. Creating a Learning Community.

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