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

NonProfit Quarterly

Everyone has the energy they need to survive and thrive. Our homes can withstand the bitter cold and extreme heat, and no one gets sick or dies prematurely for lack of affordable energy. Reshaping the Way We Live in the Midst of Climate Crisis.”

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Wartime Digital Resilience

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Even before the conflict, we in government believed that technology holds the promise of making government more transparent, efficient, and accountable, empower citizens, increase participation, and combat corruption. Nearly 19 million Ukrainians, or about half of Ukraine's population, use Diia.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

“RULER OF THE EARTH” BY YUET-LAM TSANG Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” How do social movements come to make the language of economic systems change their own? We think it can. We think it can.

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Protecting Solidarity: Countering Attacks on Mutual Aid Funds

NonProfit Quarterly

Julian’s own organization worried about surveillance, and comrades warned their collective about philanthropy being a short-term Band-Aid, and how the government uses nonprofit grants to defang social movements by ways of compliance. Where politically motivated captivity for civil rights activists loomed, bail funds responded.

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The Great Awakening, and Workers’ Fight to Stay Woke

NonProfit Quarterly

2 Democracy is not just a system of political practices; it must be applied to participation and decision-making in all aspects of our economic lives as well. Both aim to socialize the risks of operating a business while limiting the profitable rewards among a select few. 7 But it’s not just California where workers are making gains.

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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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18 Nonprofit Metrics You’re Not Using – But Should

Nonprofit Fixer

Remember, we started our nonprofits to solve problems, not to spend all our energy proving our worth and asking “how high” when funders tell us to jump. Policy and structural change are powerful, but take longer. People are motivated by goals. For nearly a decade, there wasn’t a clear and identifiable policy in Washington, D.C.