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Harmony in Work & Life: Founder, Innovator in Manufacturing, Marketing on Passion For Change

Fundraising Leadership

“Having trusted relationships is how I got here today,” says Kara Demirjian Huss, vice president of T/CCI Manufacturing and recently appointed to the Illinois Workforce Innovation Board, overseeing the Unified State Plan for Illinois workforce development system. ” Manufacturing is undergoing major shifts. Borg Warner Corp.,

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Industry Overviews: Online Grocery Sales & Cough & Cold Medicine Manufacturing OTC

Selfish Giving

Cough & Cold Medicine Manufacturing OTC This industry manufactures over-the-counter (OTC) cough and cold treatments and suppressants. In addition, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Amazon drivers delivered more than 9 million meals to people in need in 25 cities across America.

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How Resident-Owned Communities Can Create Mass Affordable Homeownership

NonProfit Quarterly

An underappreciated tool for closing this gap—potentially benefitting millions of US households—involves resident-owned manufactured housing communities. A Freddie Mac Multifamily survey conducted in 2019 estimated 45,000 manufactured housing communities operating across the United States. There is another option—a cooperative option.

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New Report Finds America’s Top Polluters

NonProfit Quarterly

Community Impact The industrial sector in the United States—the part of the economy made up of manufacturing and the production of goods—is to blame for almost a quarter of all domestic greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Sierra Club. It’s the foundation. For some people, like Etienne, the work is generational. million jobs.

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Youth Unemployment in the Developing World Is a Jobs Problem

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Other examples abound: Mastercard Foundation, which aims to address youth unemployment in Africa by creating 30 million jobs, identifies “improving the quality of education and vocational training” and “leveraging technology to connect employers and job seekers” as its first two strategies to enable job creation.

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Capitalism, the Insecurity Machine: A Conversation with Astra Taylor

NonProfit Quarterly

We sat down for a conversation about how capitalism manufactures insecurity, how it is weaponized against us, and why we must embrace our shared vulnerability to create a safer and better world. Can you explain how insecurity stems from an existential human problem and how modern capitalism newly manufactures its experience?

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Segregation Helped Build Fortunes. What Does Philanthropy Owe Now?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By 1948 Cafritz had amassed such wealth from real estate development that he incorporated a foundation bearing his and his wife’s name. It is also one of several DC-area foundations profiled in a new report from the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) on “ Philanthropy’s Role in Reparations for Black People.”