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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. To genuinely prioritize biodiversity conservation, companies must reduce the volume of toxic chemicals throughout their entire value chains.

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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

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.” And it worked. It was profitable to do so.

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Of Myths and Markets: Moving Beyond the Capitalist God That Failed Us

NonProfit Quarterly

The National Association of Manufacturers, for example, saw its membership fall from over 5,000 businesses to fewer than 1,500. NAM, however, found a successful rebuilding and rebranding strategy in the mid-1930s as it became a central organizing arm of a movement to re-legitimize business in the eyes of the public and discredit the New Deal.

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

The co-op movement in Puerto Rico comprises a range of credit unions, youth co-ops, and co-ops in many other sectors, including farming, trade, manufacturing, services, transportation, and housing. Worker-owned co-ops and benefit corporations are additional public policy frameworks for a just economy. More than 1.1

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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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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 total value of employee-owner shares at those companies is $32.7 The second area of gains is in the realm of public policy. And at the state level, the manufacturing extension partnerships or MEPs. One concerns field knowledge.