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Unlikely Advocates: Worker Co-ops, Grassroots Organizing, and Public Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

Up to this point, legislation for most worker co-ops was not a priority; federal policy wasn’t even a pipe dream. Public policy wasn’t really a part of our culture. Why Prioritize Public Policy and Advocacy? 6 Engaging in public policy advocacy is not without its dangers. Until it was.

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Reimagining the Role of Business in Protecting Biodiversity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

manufacturing and service organizations), reducing their land footprint entails optimizing the utilization of existing built spaces, infrastructure, and parking areas. Instead of constructing a new office, manufacturing or retail site, companies can first restore existing buildings.

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Report Assesses Impact of Philanthropic “Big Bet” on Employee Ownership

NonProfit Quarterly

The second area of gains is in the realm of public policy. The second area of gains is in the realm of public policy. And at the state level, the manufacturing extension partnerships or MEPs. There are additional benefits beyond the direct economic gains. One concerns field knowledge. One concerns field knowledge.

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Lessons From the Failures of Covax

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For COVID-19, the IP used to develop the mRNA vaccines should have been shared widely, with technical support to expand manufacturing to global majority countries. Public mistrust of governments’ ability to act with their interests in mind existed long before COVID-19, but the pandemic accelerated and hardened this skepticism.

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Excessive Wealth Has Run Amok—This Must Stop

NonProfit Quarterly

It’s time to change public policy to do away with excessive wealth and its corrosive effects on our lives, our society, and our democracy. To interrupt this pattern, public policy must, at minimum, implement policies that tax wealth to cut down on the excessive concentration of wealth over time.

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Employee Ownership Policy Makes Major Gains—Next Up, Implementation

NonProfit Quarterly

Employee Ownership as Economic Development The CHIPS and Science Act aims to boost domestic research and manufacturing of semiconductors in the United States. It may not be immediately clear the connection between semiconductors and cooperatives; manufacturing makes up just a little over five percent of the worker co-op field.

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Segregation Helped Build Fortunes. What Does Philanthropy Owe Now?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

To understand Morris Cafritz’s activities required reading on the history of Washington DC, on the history of real estate development, and on race and public policy. When that happens, the goal is to contextualize what direct evidence is available in increasingly broad concentric circles. It was profitable to do so. As historian N.D.B.