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The Promise and the Power of Social Cooperatives

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The SABSA healthcare cooperative is one of over 11,000 enterprises in the province of Quebec’s distinctive social economy. “We We can both provide healthcare and do substance testing,” explained SABSA clinical nurse Marie-Odyle Massé to NPQ. “We Fear and shame were preventing them from getting needed care.

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Rehearsing for the Revolution: Theater as a Tool of Democratic Imagination

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 2, 2025

That was the moment, according to Boal, when these artists came to understand that art which sees audience members merely as passive observers could itself be as oppressive as landlords or bosses handing down racist, classist, or sexist rules and laws. But a TO process doesn’t stop there.

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Building Together: How to Create a Worker-Led Workforce Development System

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 4, 2025

Credit: Jerome Govender on Pexels Recent worker polling confirms that workers feel vulnerable—and they feel that public policy does not serve them. Public workforce development systems cannot solve these shortfalls by themselves. Additionally, the coalition is making sure that public data are transparently available.

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What Does Centering Native Justice Require? A New Report Has Answers

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 4, 2025

Meanwhile, per capita federal funding for the Indian Health Service is only about one-half of the funding for prisoner healthcare, far below the national average (103). Key demands outlined include changing unjust laws, returning stolen lands, and restoring the rights that have long been denied to advance Indigenous sovereignty (109).

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Latine Community Groups Mobilize to Defend Medicaid Against Cuts

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 7, 2025

All told, over 28 million Latines rely on Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for their healthcare. All told, over 28 million Latines rely on Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for their healthcare. trillion over 10 years. The Latine community will be disproportionately affected.

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From Band-Aids to Blueprint: How Nonprofits Can Engineer Systems Change through Advocacy and Public Policy

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

DECEMBER 4, 2023

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. And yes, the crux of systems change is built on advocacy and public policy.

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Why Tennessee Needs a Statewide Nonprofit Association

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JANUARY 3, 2023

In most states, a statewide nonprofit association provides holistic services to nonprofits, including services such as statewide public policy and advocacy support, training and technical assistance, and research. From a public policy perspective, it’s essential that nonprofits work together.

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2023 Legislative Session: A Recap

MNA Association

JUNE 12, 2023

Specific issues addressed by MNA Following is a recap of specific issues MNA addressed in the context of our Public Policy Agenda. HB307 ultimately passed and was signed into law. If it seems long, well… it was a long session. Every success represents the power of association. Together we are a force for good!

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Leading Together for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 22, 2023

Similarly, the Healthcare Anchor Network , a collaborative of 75 health systems, is working to transform the economic drivers of health disparities in the United States. Take the Center for Law and Social Policy , a nonprofit committed to reducing poverty and increasing economic opportunity.

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Whose Capital? Our Capital! The Power of Workers’ Pensions for the Common Good

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2024

Or consider if the retirement money of our prestigious public universities and their medical centers, where cleaners, cafeteria staff, and medical assistants care for students and patients, was invested in one of the largest corporate landlords in the country, and this landlord doubled their rent or evicted their families. Our Capital!

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2024 Nonprofit Voter Guide

MNA Association

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Nonprofit leaders play an important role in shaping public policy. That includes supporting both patients and providers at our state’s non-profit healthcare organizations. Nonprofits are invaluable when it comes to educating policy makers on the critical issues we are facing in our communities.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

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. Up to this point, legislation for most worker co-ops was not a priority; federal policy wasn’t even a pipe dream. Until it was.

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Organizing the South—How Black Workers Are Challenging Corporate Power

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

9 Today, manufacturing is the top industry in the South employing Black men—for Black women, it’s the healthcare industry. 29 And while state preemption of local laws is not new, its use by Republican state governments as a weapon to whip local democratic cities into compliance has expanded dramatically in the last 10 years.

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HLTH 2022: Obstacles to Health Equity

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Entering HLTH (pronounced “health”), an annual conference focused on the business of health—from healthcare startups to government agencies and insurance companies—feels as overwhelming as healthcare itself. Where we need to go as healthcare and where we need to go as a nation…we need a new story. Hot Topics in Health Equity.

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Facial Recognition Technology’s Enduring Threat to Civil Liberties

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Due to its inaccuracy, and because of public backlash, law enforcement’s use of facial recognition technology is banned in some cities; however, the technology is still being used by law enforcement agencies throughout the United States.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

This was not so often the case in the 1960s, when civil rights laws were passed and long-term employment, at least in unionized sectors, was the norm; it is the case today. 23 William Gale, codirector of the Urban Brookings Tax Policy Center, concurs.

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Legislative Tracker for Tennessee Nonprofits - Education

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Monitor Legislation that Impacts Your Nonprofit and the Communities you serve Nonprofits must be legislative watchdogs for three key reasons: Impact awareness: New laws affect funding, operations, and beneficiary eligibility. Staying informed prevents blindsided disruptions. Want to take action on a bill below? Find your legislators here.

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Legislative Tracker - Health & Human Services

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Monitor Legislation that Impacts Your Nonprofit and the Communities you serve Nonprofits must be legislative watchdogs for three key reasons: Impact awareness: New laws affect funding, operations, and beneficiary eligibility. Staying informed prevents blindsided disruptions. Want to take action on a bill below? Find your legislators here.

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Meet the New Global Tax Haven, the United States

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2022

There are many reasons, including public policies—both on the expenditure side (that is, government support for education, childcare, healthcare, and so on) and on the revenue side (that is, how progressive or regressive taxes are). This rule was based on a 1682 British common law case.

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Cancelling Student Debt Is Necessary for Racial Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 1, 2022

As the executive director of the East Bay Community Law Center, Zoe Polk, wrote recently for NPQ about the PSLF program , “Legal aid attorneys like me work to ensure that millions of low-income people of color stay in their homes, are paid fair compensation, expunge faulty criminal records, and access immigration relief.

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Taxes, Race, and Justice: Confronting “Quiet Violence” Against Black Americans

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 15, 2025

Meanwhile, the infamous Black codes were used to weaponize tax laws to effectively force freed men and women back into a state of near slavery, by restricting their rights to own property and engage in certain jobs. Unequal Enforcement : Tax laws are often applied unequally. times the rate of non-Black taxpayers.

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The Promise and the Power of Social Cooperatives

Rehearsing for the Revolution: Theater as a Tool of Democratic Imagination

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Building Together: How to Create a Worker-Led Workforce Development System

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What Does Centering Native Justice Require? A New Report Has Answers

Latine Community Groups Mobilize to Defend Medicaid Against Cuts

From Band-Aids to Blueprint: How Nonprofits Can Engineer Systems Change through Advocacy and Public Policy

Why Tennessee Needs a Statewide Nonprofit Association

2023 Legislative Session: A Recap

Leading Together for Systems Change

Whose Capital? Our Capital! The Power of Workers’ Pensions for the Common Good

2024 Nonprofit Voter Guide

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

Organizing the South—How Black Workers Are Challenging Corporate Power

HLTH 2022: Obstacles to Health Equity

Facial Recognition Technology’s Enduring Threat to Civil Liberties

Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

Legislative Tracker for Tennessee Nonprofits - Education

Legislative Tracker - Health & Human Services

Meet the New Global Tax Haven, the United States

Cancelling Student Debt Is Necessary for Racial Justice

Taxes, Race, and Justice: Confronting “Quiet Violence” Against Black Americans

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