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

NonProfit Quarterly

These structures go beyond the physical infrastructure of poles, wires, and pipes to encompass the culture, laws, institutions, and power structures that shape who gets to live today and who gets to live—and even thrive—in the coming decades. As one example, the Reimagined Energy For Our Communities U.S.

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20 Leaders Selected for 2023 Advancing Racial Equity on Nonprofit Boards Fellowship

NonProfit Leadership Center

Tina James​ Senior Manager of Corporate Social Responsibility, Florida Blue Tina James, the senior manager of corporate social responsibility at Florida Blue, is one of 20 outstanding professionals of color selected to participate in the Nonprofit Leadership Center’s 2023 Advancing Racial Equity on Nonprofit Boards Fellowship.

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When Leadership Requires Keeping Your Hand On the Plow

Fundraising Leadership

She argued that those who had fought for suffrage should then shift their work to getting laws passed that would continue to expand women’s rights. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. Here’s the link to participate in person or virtually.

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Preserving Cambodia Town: How A Refugee Community Has Organized Itself

NonProfit Quarterly

If you were educated or even looked like you were by wearing glasses, you were destroyed. One example is an arts program that is based on the well-established concept that arts participation relieves stress, boosts academic success, and provides healing through self-expression and socioemotional learning.

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When to Call It Quits

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Civil society creates a balance between sectors, providing a means for private companies to create social impact, and to improve civilian access to essential needs usually covered by the public sector, like education and health care. BPP provided children and youth with these essential courses and other valuable enrichment programs.

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From Owing to Owning: How Communities Can Control Commercial Land

NonProfit Quarterly

Rationales for Community Ownership While motivations for pursuing community ownership of land vary, there are some common elements. To participate, community members can purchase an ownership share in the enterprise, contingent on completing an eight-hour financial education course.

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Angel City Football Club Transforms Women's Sports?-?and the Movement for Gender Equality

Fundraising Leadership

And Angel City is an incredible role model by encouraging girls and young women to participate in the sport and providing the means for them to do so in their home city of Los Angeles. This is analogous to laws that protect against gender discrimination in the workplace or that support maternity leave and equal pay.