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Why Fashion Education Needs to Care About Climate Change

NonProfit Quarterly

Why have fashion education programs been slow to adapt? The Fashion Education Landscape Fashion education has historically emphasized the development of individual creativity and technical mastery. However, this focus on creative skills has led to a significant gap in sustainability education.

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How Limited Equity Co-ops Can Sustain Affordable Homeownership

NonProfit Quarterly

Additionally, millions of Americans reside in manufactured housing communities, often called mobile home parks, which do provide affordable housing. Second, education for LEC members is crucial. Additionally, many jurisdictions have extended a right to first refusal specifically to residents in manufactured housing communities.

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Defying the Odds: The Case for Investing in Organizing Workers in the South

NonProfit Quarterly

This includes organizing campaigns to move lawmakers on a wide range of community issues such as education and childcare and to make it easier for workers in the auto industry, manufacturing, meat packing, and other areas to join a union. Consider the multiracial alliances in Georgia, shepherded by Georgia STAND-UP.

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Why the Marguerite Casey Foundation is leveraging its endowment

Candid

Marguerite Casey Foundation (MCF) recently announced a bold $130 million investment to ensure leaders and organizations that best align with our mission have the resources needed to continue critical education efforts, services, and community organizing across the country.

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Private Equity and Wheelchair Services: How to Address a National Crisis

NonProfit Quarterly

Vertical integrationfrom manufacturing to retailalso allows private equity firms to maximize profits across the supply chain. An award-winning elementary educator integrating social justice into the curriculum for 30 years, Hoeh suffered a spinal cord injury in 2017 that shifted his focus to disability rights.

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A Political Roadmap to Social Housing: How Do We Win?

NonProfit Quarterly

Part of this work involves connecting people with lived experiences of homelessness, precarious rentals, and manufactured housing with homeowners fearing gentrification and displacement. This model offers political education opportunities that can produce lasting homeowner voter support. These all are interconnected and dynamic.

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The Next Generation of Mutualism

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Hemstreet went on to work with local cooperatives, civic groups, manufacturers, nonprofits, and the local Rotary Clubthe other mutualists in her areato launch Morgantons Industrial Commons, a nonprofit economic-development project that created the Carolina Textile District and four additional community-owned organizations. million children.