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Investing in Creativity as Social Infrastructure

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This is apparent in families divided by online conspiracies, in children's struggles with social media-driven anxiety, in neighborhoods where local businesses struggle while corporate profits soar, and in the easy stereotypes many people reach for about urban elites or rural flyover country that mask our shared humanity.

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From Policy to Power: Centering People by Supporting Tenant Unions

NonProfit Quarterly

Following the Great Recession, corporations and private equity firms aggressively purchased multifamily rental housing, single-family homes, and manufactured housing communities. The fundamental profit-seeking goals of these companies have contributed to increasing rents, as well as instability and housing insecurity.

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The AI Mirror—How to Reclaim Our Humanity in the Age of Machine Thinking

NonProfit Quarterly

AI models are mirrors that are manufactured to produce certain kinds of reflections of human intelligence. Now, normally, if youre an engineer, having been the president of your chess club is indicative of a certain kind of leadership. And what they want most of all is for the passengers not to stand up and grab the wheel.

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Reimagining Business Ownership in the Global South

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Unlike in typical agricultural value chains, this has brought substantial rewards in terms of higher and more stable prices, and profit distributions, for the 3.6 KTDA and GCMMF both have strong track records of R&D, manufacturing, logistics, and marketing innovation that have enabled them to excel in the marketplace.

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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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Content Marketing for Regulated, Boring and Unsexy Industries

Pam Moore

Content tips and tricks – actionable strategies to create engaging and profitable content on a tight budget. Some of our favorite tools and technology that make ALL of the above easier and more profitable. Marketers working in manufacturing. Non-profits. Register for the webinar now! . Real estate brokers.

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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. As historian N.D.B.