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Laying the Groundwork for Government-Led Poverty Reduction

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The US federal administration slashed 83 percent of foreign assistance programs during its first six weeks in office earlier this year, while European governments have redirected huge amounts of aid to defense spending. NGOs can adapt by prioritizing partnerships with the governments of low-income countries.

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How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate

NonProfit Quarterly

Decades of policy changes, however, often under the radar, today inhibit many diverse kinds of association. [We Public policy needs to facilitate large-scale financing for mutualist enterprises—organizations like cooperatives , employee-ownership trusts , and mutual insurance companies. This must be rectified.

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How to Interrupt the Public Funds to Private Profits Pipeline: A California Story

NonProfit Quarterly

This happens daily when local governments park public funds in banks. Public funds amounting to billions of dollars are turned into private profits for services using your assets. The Peoples Money for the Peoples Needs What difference could a public bank make? It turns out, quite a lot.

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From Impact Investing to “Impact-First” Investing—What Is the Field Learning?

NonProfit Quarterly

An investment portfolio that limits energy investments to renewables, for example, may well outperform a portfolio that includes fossil fuel firms; holding on to fossil fuel stocks is arguably riskier. This analysis, offered by Triodos , a firm with over $6 billion (5.9 Activating these funding streams will be challenging but not impossible.

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Sharing Meals

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In contrast to systems like energy, transportation, or health care, where expertise is more well defined, food expertise tends to be irrefutable, requiring no advanced degree or professional experience. About 20 percent are seated within government.

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Rehearsing for the Revolution: Theater as a Tool of Democratic Imagination

NonProfit Quarterly

In Legislative Theatre, the plays created by community groups directly address unjust public policy and practice, and the improvisations by spect-actors offer the opportunity to test new laws, rules, and resources to address those problems. Through this process, TONYC helped to shape city policy and practice between 2013 and 2019.

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How to Advance BIPOC Empowerment in the Renewable Energy Industry

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: PeopleImages on iStock The view from the trenches in frontline BIPOC communities fighting for resources is hopeful, though sobering: there has been a boom in energy and interest since the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in 2022. Proof of concept is strong, with exemplars around the country.

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