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Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This approach would also systematically integrate socio-economic issues such as co-locating affordable housing and transit. He named his initiative Sekem and created a conglomerate of organizations that today enable a broad range of economic, social, educational, and cultural activities in a beautiful and safe environment.

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Capitalism, the Insecurity Machine: A Conversation with Astra Taylor

NonProfit Quarterly

First, there is existential insecurity, a fact of human experience, a kind of beautiful insecurity that comes with being a vulnerable being, an entity that can be wounded physically or psychologically, that is aware of its mortality. RR: The book is based on your discovery that everyone’s “economic issues are also emotional ones.”