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Why Reparations Can Counter the Legacy of a 50-Year “War on Drugs”

NonProfit Quarterly

The War on Drugs Is Personal The War on Drugs has been a half-century-long, concerted, militarized campaign led by the US government to enforce prohibitions on the importation, manufacture, use, sale, and distribution of substances deemed to be illegal, advancing a punitive rather than a public health approach to drug use.

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A Multiracial Democracy in the United States Requires Racial Repair

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Racism has been manufactured as a tool to protect the existing distribution of wealth and power , and for the entrenchment of authoritarian views. This might look like monuments, museums, and other memorials dedicated to public education about how and why these harms occurred, similar to Germany’s cultural memory of the Holocaust.

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Why Do Wheelchair Repairs Take So Long?

NonProfit Quarterly

The group is documenting these experiences in the hope of making legislative change, similar to a law passed in Colorado in 2022. The median cost of repairing a wheelchair, as reported by Harvard Health Publishing , is $150, often an out-of-pocket expense. Another is the red tape of insurance.

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64 Online Stores That Benefit Nonprofits and the Greater Good

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Proceeds benefit the American Civil Liberties Union, a nonprofit that works to defend the rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States. Proceeds benefit First Book, a nonprofit that provides new books and educational resources to schools and programs in low-income communities. Food & Drink.

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Unlocking the Potential of Open 990 Data

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The IRS is currently completing its rollout of the new law. First, the social sector needs to promote educational resources that inspire and instruct novice practitioners on how to incorporate open data into their solutions to complex social problems. Suggestions for Action.

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Stories of Organizational Transformation: Moving Toward System Change and a Solidarity Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

This article profiles three organizations from which we hail—the Center for Biological Diversity, Marbleseed (formerly the Midwest Organic Sustainable Education Service), and Wellspring Cooperative—that have grown to focus on addressing the many social, political, economic, and environmental ills that are a direct outcome of capitalism.

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Can Public Power Advance Economic Justice?

NonProfit Quarterly

But for this shift in policy direction—which also includes other bills passed by Congress, such as the CHIPS and Science Act that subsidizes semiconductor manufacturing—to advance economic justice, the problems of the dominant US industrial policy of the past 80 or so years will need to be addressed.