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

NonProfit Quarterly

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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Movements Are Leading the Way: Reenvisioning and Redesigning Laws and Governance for a Just Energy Utility Transition

NonProfit Quarterly

Energy is increasingly managed as part of a broader commons, where resources and land are shared and mineral inputs to renewable energy and storage like lithium and cobalt are minimized. 7 Legislators and regulators often allocate public dollars for clean energy technologies through partial incentives, rebates, or tax incentives.

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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.

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Work Requirements Are Rooted in the History of Slavery

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Ron Lach on pexels.com Work requirements—or requiring people to find employment in order to access public benefits—force people to prove that they deserve a social safety net. But where did they come from, and why are they still a central part of economic policy today?

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Can a New Social Contract Advance in Minnesota?

NonProfit Quarterly

A new social contract —that is, a structural change in the relationship of the public to the government, the 1930s New Deal being the quintessential US example—seemed to just maybe be at hand. The struggle for a more progressive social contract continues. None made it into law. Free community college?

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Social Media Savvy? How and Why To Make Your Digital Presence A Career Booster

Fundraising Leadership

Using social media to promote your work can be positive, but you need to be careful. due to its Chinese ownership and use of data from its 170 million users, it is prime time to take a look at your own social media use. Contentious political and cultural issues are off limits from public sharing. Some posts can get you fired.

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Reading List: Bridging Divides to Create Social Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Stanford Social Innovation Review ’s 2022 Nonprofit Management Institute (NMI) will focus on opportunities to bridge the divides that exist in society. Deep Listening Is Necessary for Social Change. Social Justice Organizations at a Crossroads. How to Manage Internal Conflicts. By SSIR Editors.