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Building Power for Healthy Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Most importantly, the initiative was focused on the policy-related goal of health equity, not greater community power. During its decade-long journey through Building Healthy Communities, TCE learned many lessons that continue to inform its approach to grantmaking and social change advocacy. Community grantees knew better.

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Building Infrastructure to Support Equity: A Conversation with Dr. Akilah Watkins

NonProfit Quarterly

The nonprofit sector is hugely important both economically and socially to this country. That is how we deeply institutionalize values around giving, collective values around giving. We were all in the community and affordable housing space, and we came together to create frameworks for leadership.

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Paving a Better Way: What’s Driving Progressive Organizations Apart and How to Win by Coming Together

NonProfit Quarterly

As part of this work, we rigorously read and discussed Maurice Mitchell’s article about key trends and fallacies in progressive movement organizations and the dimensions of organizational resilience needed to win. The first core concept is that while nonprofit organizations are part of social movements, they are not the same thing.

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Building the Solidarity Economy by Boosting Black-Owned Co-ops

NonProfit Quarterly

But this dream met the same fate as countless other ideas in the early aughts—we were “too inexperienced” and lacked the social capital to get this idea off the ground. The author teaching about Collective Courage in 2019 at Eastmont Public Library. Photo courtesy of Repaired Nations. Holistic Underground is a newer co-op.

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