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Defying the Odds: The Case for Investing in Organizing Workers in the South

NonProfit Quarterly

There is no question that the regions history of union busting and so-called right-to-work laws makes worker organizing difficult. In the Southa new wave of organizing is underway. The lack of investment by mainstream philanthropy, despite the Souths critical role in the national economy, makes it harder.

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The Next Generation of Mutualism

Stanford Social Innovation Review

They connected into networks with leadership that can organize multiple groups around common purposes, such as local economic development. To ensure mutualism thrives in the next generation, communities need laws, regulations, practices, and capital markets that encourage solidarity and investment outside of any given silo.

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Pathways to Democratic Business: What Two Co-op Networks Can Teach Us

NonProfit Quarterly

Here, I focus on two of the book’s US case studies: Industrial Commons , a textile manufacturing network based in North Carolina; and Obran , a worker co-op holding company based in Baltimore that has gained national prominence. But the manufacturing decline hit many regions outside the Rust Belt, including western North Carolina.

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Belonging: Ending Inequities, Tropes For AANHPI Women in Workplace

Fundraising Leadership

The average Asian American, Native Hawaiian Pacific Island woman will likely never know, as that is what this group of women working full time will lose due to the wage gap over a lifetime, according to the National Women’s Law Center. “ The group founded the Asian Pacific American Women’s Leadership Institute that same year.

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Segregation Helped Build Fortunes. What Does Philanthropy Owe Now?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Darity and Kirsten Mullen , “the capable and culpable party” that set and enforced policies and laws to actively build the assets of white families and destroy the assets of Black families. This move recognizes the federal government as, in the words of scholars William A. It was profitable to do so. As historian N.D.B.

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Making History Known: Biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin on The Power of Story

Fundraising Leadership

Read more from Gloria Feldt on women telling the story Goodwin’s assertions mirror the 9 Leadership Power Tools created by Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president of Take The Lead. “ @DorisKGoodwin’s assertions mirror the 9 Leadership Power Tools created by @GloriaFeldt, co-founder and president of @Takeleadwomen.

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Why Artisans Are Building an Alternative to Etsy

NonProfit Quarterly

Long before the rise of the platform economy, artisans were already regarded as self-employed and outside the protection of national labor laws. When these items started to be manufactured in factories, those jobs were often relegated to women, who were paid far less than men.