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How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate

NonProfit Quarterly

Decades of policy changes, however, often under the radar, today inhibit many diverse kinds of association. [We Public policy needs to facilitate large-scale financing for mutualist enterprises—organizations like cooperatives , employee-ownership trusts , and mutual insurance companies. Rather, policy prevents it.

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Rehearsing for the Revolution: Theater as a Tool of Democratic Imagination

NonProfit Quarterly

That was the moment, according to Boal, when these artists came to understand that art which sees audience members merely as passive observers could itself be as oppressive as landlords or bosses handing down racist, classist, or sexist rules and laws. Through this process, TONYC helped to shape city policy and practice between 2013 and 2019.

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How to Interrupt the Public Funds to Private Profits Pipeline: A California Story

NonProfit Quarterly

Public banks are owned by a local government or coalition of local governments and focus on stable, accountable, and supportive lending. While not yet prevalent in the United States, public banking is common globally. Are you ready?

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Co-op Leaders Consider Future as International Year of the Co-op Nears

NonProfit Quarterly

Narvaéz Ojeda emphasized the “fundamental” role of public policy in supporting cooperatives and remarked on the importance of institutionalization and participatory decision-making. For instance, in Paraguay, Riquelme said that co-ops, by law, must set aside 10 percent of profits for a co-op education development fund.

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Co-op Federation Seeks to Shift Worker Co-op Movement into a Passing Gear

NonProfit Quarterly

In Chicago, speakers surveyed the growth of the past 20 years while setting forth goals to bring worker co-ops fully into the economic mainstream through movement infrastructure, public policy, and culture building. Increasingly, worker co-ops are making public policy gains.

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Sharing Meals

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Learn new structures Food Policy Councils take different forms. According to the Food Policy Network —a project of the Johns Hopkins University Center for a Livable Future—of the more than 300 food policy councils in the United States, a third are grassroots coalitions, while another 40 percent are nonprofits (or housed in nonprofits).

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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. That remains true even if that wealth was donated to promote a public good. Foundations could follow this model.