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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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Should We Build New Homes in a Burning World?

NonProfit Quarterly

With the increase of new industries in the area has come a flood of new construction; thousands of workers at a new car manufacturing plant, for example, need a place to live. But Casa Grande is a city in a desert, and not having enough water to supply these new housing developments may stop construction before it’s even started.

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Can a New Social Contract Advance in Minnesota?

NonProfit Quarterly

A new social contract —that is, a structural change in the relationship of the public to the government, the 1930s New Deal being the quintessential US example—seemed to just maybe be at hand. None made it into law. Free community college? New federal support for affordable housing? Build Back Better, Minnesota Style?

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Giving Workers Power to Thrive in the Face of New Technology

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The people making economic decisions today—in government, on Wall Street, in corporate boardrooms, and indeed in Silicon Valley—overwhelmingly look the same as they have since their creation, with virtually no racial, gender, or economic diversity.

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What Makes a Family? Pushing States to Expand the Definition

NonProfit Quarterly

From the abolition of chattel slavery to the ending of Jim Crow laws targeting Black families, through LGBTQ+ marriage equality to ongoing attempts to reform and/or abolish the US child welfare system —the struggle for equality, dignity, and protection under the law for families of all kinds remains very much ongoing.

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A Story of Reparations and Healing From New Zealand

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Hundreds of us gathered to acknowledge how the Crown—as New Zealand’s government is still known colloquially today, as the successor to British colonial rule—unlawfully confiscated the Ngāti Maru (a Māori tribe) land more than 150 years ago. . This meaning was fitting for the event.

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Setting a Co-op Table for Food Justice in Louisville

NonProfit Quarterly

In October, the metro council of Louisville’s combined city-county government voted to allocate $3.5 We are under pressure to meet agreed-upon timelines for site preparation, store design, permitting, and construction. If we fall short, the money from Louisville’s city-county government could be rescinded. We secured $3.5

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