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Legislative Tracker for Tennessee Nonprofits - Education

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

Monitor Legislation that Impacts Your Nonprofit and the Communities you serve Nonprofits must be legislative watchdogs for three key reasons: Impact awareness: New laws affect funding, operations, and beneficiary eligibility. Staying informed prevents blindsided disruptions. Want to take action on a bill below? Find your legislators here.

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Equity in Employment: A Vital Step Toward Dismantling Structural Racism in Brazil

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Slavery ensued for the next three centuries and was only abolished on May 13, 1888, through a law titled Lei Áurea (the “Golden Law”) —66 years after Brazil became independent. Changes like these have impacted culture, including increased Black representation in highly popular TV soap operas and marketing campaigns.

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Reimagining Your Career and Life: How Power Up Conference Leaders Can Help You Thrive

Fundraising Leadership

While there are many transferable skills, moving back into the very different civilian culture — whether in business, education, law, medicine, or elsewhere— means learning new ways of interacting, a new language and new, often covert rules,” says Wilmoth, Executive Dean at UNC School of Nursing, and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.

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The Call of Leadership Now: BIPOC Leaders in a Syndemic Era

NonProfit Quarterly

And as nonprofits moved away from their member-driven and member-funded mutual aid and organizing roots, they took on a hierarchical structure modeled after corporate culture, became dependent on grants from foundations/government, and became run by “expert” staff to provide services or lead advocacy efforts.

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

It prioritizes building personal, social, emotional, and cultural capacities of human beings—instead of irrational consumption. Worker-owned co-ops and benefit corporations are additional public policy frameworks for a just economy. The main goal is to empower workers and consumers and improve the quality of community life.

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Leading Together for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

To engage with the agency, people from these communities needed culturally relevant content and more-accessible programming. When Leadership and Limiting Systems Collide In systems of all kinds, individuals practicing leadership often come up against the constraints of limiting, exclusionary, and unjust conditions and cultures.