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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

“RULER OF THE EARTH” BY YUET-LAM TSANG Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” How do social movements come to make the language of economic systems change their own? We think it can. We think it can.

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Collaboration Across Social Boundaries: A Practical Guide

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Karl Haushalter & Paul Steinberg A local public health official has been tasked with increasing vaccine use in an underserved community. Changing the law will require lobbying strategies, connections to policy makers, and legal expertise. Sometimes these social boundaries are academic disciplines.

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Corporate Capture—Can We Find a Way Out?

NonProfit Quarterly

But the corporate form, per se, is not the problem—the corporation is just a creature of law that limits individual liability. And, over time, the for-profit corporation has occupied more and more social space; its tentacles reach into politics , our economy , our daily life , and—perhaps most insidiously—our culture and ideas.

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Why the Threats Against Nonprofit Tax Status Are Unprecedented

NonProfit Quarterly

Theres more philanthropic funding of these organizations, theres more public fundingat least until recentlyso the number of [nonprofit] organizations has risen steadily, particularly in the last 40 to 50 years. At the time, the amendment was uncontroversial and became law on August 16, 1954. How Did We Get Here?