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Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

She also lives in a food desert, which makes getting nutritious and affordable food difficult. The nearest fresh food grocer is three miles away, across the 101 freeway. She can afford one big shopping trip in the month and at the end of the month she visits the local food pantry to subsidize until she gets her next paycheck.

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Getting to Know Our Board Members: Amanda McCollum

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

She started as a HR Administrator and has ascended to the role of Vice President of Human Resources while also serving the firm as a consultant in human capital advisory. Tell us about your previous experience working in the nonprofit sector. Tell us about your previous experience working in the nonprofit sector.

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Getting to Know Our Consultants: Foluke Houston-Gaddis

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

That’s why Momentum Nonprofit Partners launched our consultant directory in 2017 and have linked hundreds of nonprofits to qualified consultants in Memphis and across the country. Tell us about your previous experience working in the nonprofit sector. Tell us a success story about your work with a nonprofit in Memphis.

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Worker Co-Ops in Health Care: Lessons from the Field

NonProfit Quarterly

Is it possible to organize private healthcare businesses in ways that don’t extract profits and instead share ownership and control with workers by design? A typical home care worker earns even less, just $18,100 per year, according to PHI , the nonprofit organization formerly known as the Paraprofessional Health Institute.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Indeed, many movement organizations subscribe to the creed that “‘capitalism is incompatible with actual democracy’ since it prioritizes the ‘private interests of capitalists,’ meaning ‘under capitalism there can be no production of social wealth without the profits of privately owned enterprises.’”

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Day in the Life of a Nonprofit Communicator – Leanne Poellinger

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

Here’s the latest installment in our series on the “Day in the Life” of nonprofit communicators, where we ask you to describe your day in your own words. Don’t be shy – tell us what you do in a typical day as a nonprofit communications pro. . Tell us what you do in a typical day as a nonprofit communications pro.

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Collaboration Across Social Boundaries: A Practical Guide

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The leaders of a nonprofit community garden want to help residents move up the value chain by selling food products from their homes, but state law restricts food production to commercial kitchens or farms. Each of these systems develops unique and self-reinforcing characteristics, practices, and vocabularies.