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A Modern Nonprofit Podcast: Talking Through WIN-WIN (Warehouse) Scenarios

The Charity CFO

WIN Warehouse began in 1991 by Clinton Laws. We’ve also listed a few categories that can be found in their warehouse below: Automotive Equipment & Supplies Electrical Equipment & Supplies Food Service Equipment Hardware Home Furnishing Office Supplies Janitorial supplies This is the only tip of the iceberg.

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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. Tim Kachuriak: Not that they were bad. I was like more of like a cos guy. They called secret shopper, secret shopper. That’s right.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

I talked about how that food could be easily repackaged into healthy meals for communities in need. A medical student, Cooper Penner, took me up on that challenge, and with the voluntary assistance of low-wage food service workers, is now running a food redistribution program from the Penn medical school cafeteria.

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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. 26 Its contemporary application is well articulated by Ohio State law professor Amna A. Leadership isn’t just an organizational value.