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Collaboration Across Social Boundaries: A Practical Guide

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The crucial insight,” write governance scholars Christopher Ansel and Jacob Torfing , “is that no single actor has the knowledge, resources, and capacities to govern alone in our complex and fragmented societies.” How many government officials understand what it takes to launch a business?

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What Does It Mean to Dismantle Racial Capitalism Anyway?

NonProfit Quarterly

1 The profits from this trade were fundamental to the forming of a transnational capitalist class—and, of course, provided money that could purchase more human beings from West Africa. Robinson, a professor of political science and Black studies. This human trade continued for over 200 years. “The

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Trust Is The Best Currency: CEO, Founder Stamps Approval on Products for Parents

Fundraising Leadership

shopsmarter ” In her early years of entrepreneurship after graduating from York University in 1994 with a double degree in mass communications and political science, Vinderine, who stands just under 5 feet tall, says she endured not only gender bias, but height bias when connecting with funders and clients in person. “As

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

This was seen as a politically smart means to avert White backlash. A 1996 political science journal article, for example, argued that policies were most likely to be effective in addressing race and economic inequality if they were targeted to benefit Black Americans but “advanced and defended on universalistic grounds.”