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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. So, how can nonprofits transcend immediate relief and become architects of systemic change?

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Public Dollars for Public Good

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” Public investments like ARPA have reawakened a commitment by politicians to use our dollars to improve access to quality housing, schools, and jobs.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Up to this point, legislation for most worker co-ops was not a priority; federal policy wasn’t even a pipe dream. Public policy wasn’t really a part of our culture. Why Prioritize Public Policy and Advocacy? 6 Engaging in public policy advocacy is not without its dangers. Until it was.

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Rethinking Food Culture Might Save Us

NonProfit Quarterly

Editors’ note: This article is from the fall 2022 issue of the Nonprofit Quarterly, “The Face of Climate Change.” Food changes into blood, blood into cells, cells change into energy which changes up into life. food is life. This work we’re doing in food culture is ultimately healing work.

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Collaboration Across Social Boundaries: A Practical Guide

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Karl Haushalter & Paul Steinberg A local public health official has been tasked with increasing vaccine use in an underserved community. Changing the law will require lobbying strategies, connections to policy makers, and legal expertise. Sometimes these social boundaries are academic disciplines.

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Food Is Her Fight and Her Freedom: Regaining Ground in Rural India

Stanford Social Innovation Review

India’s fragrant spices, cornucopia of foods, and breathtaking biodiversity compelled despots and discoverers alike to traverse its mystical landscapes, from the mighty Himalayas to the valiant Deccan. And in doing so, they have relentlessly decolonized what land and food have meant for my people.

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Can Public Power Advance Economic Justice?

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Luriko Yamaguchi on pexel.com What is public power? In a word, a large share of public services during the neoliberal era of the past few decades has been outsourced. Why focus on “public power”? In a word, a large share of public services during the neoliberal era of the past few decades has been outsourced.