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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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Private Equity and Wheelchair Services: How to Address a National Crisis

NonProfit Quarterly

Vertical integrationfrom manufacturing to retailalso allows private equity firms to maximize profits across the supply chain. In Connecticut, despite a 2024 law mandating a 10-business-day deadline and eliminating prior authorization for wheelchair repairs, many users continue to experience significant delays.

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How Limited Equity Co-ops Can Sustain Affordable Homeownership

NonProfit Quarterly

Policies such as redlining , as highlighted in Richard Rothsteins The Color of Law , created entrenched housing inequities. Additionally, millions of Americans reside in manufactured housing communities, often called mobile home parks, which do provide affordable housing.

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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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Building Boundaries in Love for Equity and Justice: An AI Manifesto

NonProfit Quarterly

8 This concern is valid, as AI has already begun reshaping such sectors as manufacturing, healthcare, and legal services.9 Moreover, the reliance on AI-driven tools has contributed to the militarization of police forces, which further alienates communities and distances law enforcement from community-based approaches.15

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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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The Next Generation of Mutualism

Stanford Social Innovation Review

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. The left has often undercut a notion of a mutualist future by insisting that every problem needs a large centralized government solution.