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From Band-Aids to Blueprint: How Nonprofits Can Engineer Systems Change through Advocacy and Public Policy

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

By Andrea Hill, Chief program Officer, Tennessee Nonprofit Network Nonprofits are the cornerstones of our communities, tackling complex challenges from education and healthcare to environmental protection and social justice. And yes, the crux of systems change is built on advocacy and public policy.

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The Risks of Carbon Capture

NonProfit Quarterly

While proponents of the technology say it can reduce the effects of carbon emissions and play a crucial role in combating climate change, environmental justice organizations are speaking out in Louisiana, one of the states where a number of these sites are being proposed. Illustrating CCS There are three steps in the CCS process.

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Reimagining the Role of Business in Protecting Biodiversity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Rajat Panwar , Theresa Lieb , Sarah Federman & Matthew Betts The landscape of corporate environmental responsibility is evolving beyond a focus on climate issues to more holistically account for nature-related risks, such as biodiversity loss. Earth Engine is one example of Google’s environmental tools.

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From Owing to Owning: How Communities Can Control Commercial Land

NonProfit Quarterly

Additionally, Duranti-Martinez points out, “Community ownership also means that the people most impacted by racial, economic, and environmental injustice have meaningful decision-making power over development” (7). Paul, tells Duranti-Martinez, for public policy to go beyond funding community ownership “experiments.”

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Land Rematriation: A Conversation with Cyndi Suarez, Donald Soctomah, Darren Ranco, Mali Obomsawin, Gabriela Alcalde, and Kate Dempsey

NonProfit Quarterly

Mali Obomsawin: I would like to acknowledge that I’m a citizen of a nation that is not one of the nations in so-called Maine, so in terms of federal Indian law sovereignty, it does not apply to me in that context. They don’t just happen automatically without some of that Land Back politics, law, policy kind of thing.

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The Call of Leadership Now: BIPOC Leaders in a Syndemic Era

NonProfit Quarterly

We are living through a syndemic—a time of multiple crises causing seismic economic, political, environmental, technological, and social shifts, which are long from being settled. Click here to download this article as it appears in the magazine, with accompanying artwork.

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Evidence 2.0: The Next Era of Evidence-Based Policymaking

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In essence, the “ Evidence Act ” codified the goal of using solid, consistent evidence as the basis for funding decisions on trillions of dollars of public money. Agencies use this data to decide on the most effective and most promising solutions for a vast array of issues, from early-childhood education to environmental protection.