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Segregation Helped Build Fortunes. What Does Philanthropy Owe Now?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By prohibiting any future sale of the property to Black or other non-white owners, restrictive covenants gave white buyers confidence that their homes and neighborhoods would remain white enclaves and therefore retain the “ enduring value ” that Cafritz promised for his “lifetime homes.” It was profitable to do so.

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Reimagining the Role of Business in Protecting Biodiversity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As one executive passionately said in a recent interview, “climate action is non-negotiable, but the race to outpace biodiversity loss is even more crucial. Our planet, and our profits, hinge on it.” For companies operating in non-land-based sectors (i.e. Soil and water pollution are primary contributors to biodiversity decline.

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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. Many crafts, such as sewing and quilting, were considered “women’s work,” allocated as much value as doing the laundry. percent , in the same week it announced record profits in 2021.

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What Did California Miss with Its Recent Slashing of a Key Solar Incentive?

NonProfit Quarterly

Second, California’s energy laws and business models are rooted in injustice. Customer-owned energy generation also reduces utilities’ potential to invest in more profit-generating infrastructure, like long-distance transmission power lines. Regulators also use this framing to the exclusion of other societal values—including justice.

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What Does It Mean to Dismantle Racial Capitalism Anyway?

NonProfit Quarterly

The way the trade worked is that Europeans would sell manufactured goods (and horses and alcohol) to (primarily) West Africans and in exchange purchase human beings. economy, worth more than all manufacturing and railroads combined.” The three vertices of the triangle were Europe (especially Great Britain), the Americas, and Africa.

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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. What we have here is the kernel of a potent agenda for “non-reformist reforms.” Leadership isn’t just an organizational value.

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Is Direct Mail Really Headed for the Exit? - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

” Accordingly, 12 states are developing laws to ban or limit “junk mail” despite strenuous efforts by the Direct Marketing Association and others to fight such legislation. But done properly, we still find direct mail is effective and profitable in growing customers, donors, and members for non-profits.