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

NonProfit Quarterly

Everyone has the energy they need to survive and thrive. Our homes can withstand the bitter cold and extreme heat, and no one gets sick or dies prematurely for lack of affordable energy. Moreover, a significant proportion of utility governing boards comprises utility workers and frontline community members.

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Rethinking Food Culture Might Save Us

NonProfit Quarterly

Food changes into blood, blood into cells, cells change into energy which changes up into life. This work we’re doing in food culture is ultimately healing work. Rowen White, Mohawk seedkeeper, writer, culture worker. But systems and practices do not exist in a vacuum; they are an expression of the culture that underpins them.

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Kinship over Transaction: How Bolivians Meet Community Needs

NonProfit Quarterly

This is one of many cultural rituals common in the small, majority-Indigenous country—wedged between Chile, Argentina, Peru, and Brazil—of roughly 12 million people. Ayni —an Andean cultural value of reciprocity and mutualism—motivates Bolivians to support one another. Photo by Mateo Hinojosa. I give to you.”)

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How the America the Beautiful Initiative, the Inflation Reduction Act, and Philanthropy Are Effecting a Just Transition in Native American and Alaska Native Communities

NonProfit Quarterly

As noted by Native Americans in Philanthropy, Tribal Nations, through their nation-to-nation relationships with the federal government and their deep knowledge of the ecosystems they steward, bring unique tools and resources to the 30×30 movement. In the United States, Tribes oversee approximately 5% of the country’s landmass.

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Co-ops and Solidarity: Reflections from Barcelona

NonProfit Quarterly

Organizers in many US communities have begun to weave together co-ops, land trusts, credit unions, participatory budgeting, energy democracy, and other community-controlled economic solutions to ensure everyday people can live stable, dignified, and self-determined lives beyond the grips of extractive capitalism.

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Love Is the Key to Democracy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Doing so means transforming our governing institutions, laws, regulations, and customs in a more fundamental way than tinkering around the edges with policy and programs. When everyday people, institutions, and government act in service, out of love for the particular needs of particular people, the benefits flow outward.

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Equity in The Balance: Catalyst Winners On DEI Tools To Change Work Culture

Fundraising Leadership

Culture eats strategy for lunch.” Culture needs to be tailor made in every company with institutional memories, talents and environment, you design the mindset.” What is important too is to have a culture where innovation is key and the values are “courage, vision, equity and joy,” Bourla says. “ asks Bible. “We

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