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PODCAST: Understanding Fundraising & Human Behavior

The Charity CFO

We had a lot of like, you know, law firms that we did stuff for. And, um, as soon as you said that you did this little, uh, gosh, I used to work in the food service industry a long time ago. To know that they’re really into mental health services for children on making something up. That’s right.

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“Educational Purposes”: Nonprofit Land as a Vital Site of Struggle

NonProfit Quarterly

Hedge Funds That Conduct Classes Today, universities turn their research into lucrative commercial goods and patents in a range of fields, from the pharmaceutical industries and software products to health services and military defense weaponry.

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Unlikely Advocates: Worker Co-ops, Grassroots Organizing, and Public Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang In August 2018, the first legislation explicitly naming worker-owned cooperatives—the Main Street Employee Ownership Act—became United States federal law. When they first trained me to be a home health aide, and I was nervous about the tests, they built up my confidence and had tutoring if I needed help.