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The Pitfalls of Personal Judgment

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Yet it can also create space for bias: familiarity can be derived from a variety of factors—the words someone uses, their background, conjugation, or even eye color—but it’s often connected to culture, ethnicity, and/or traditional access to social capital. Indeed, a sense of familiarity can lead to increased trust and attachment.

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Stories of Organizational Transformation: Moving Toward System Change and a Solidarity Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

The solidarity economy is a global movement that offers a framework to connect practices that are aligned with the values of solidarity, democracy, equity, sustainability, and pluralism (not a one-size-fits-all approach), all of which articulate a post-capitalist system that puts the welfare of people and planet front and center.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

4 We see, too, movement energy in the organizing at Amazon, at the over 200 Starbucks branches that have unionized, in the new vigor behind the pursuit of worker cooperatives and community land trusts. As has been noted by NPQ , “The struggle for a solidarity economy is a practical one, and there is no path forward without social movement.”

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The Social Contract: What’s Missing in the “Historic” Biden Legislation?

NonProfit Quarterly

As Harvard economist David Deming has pointed out , “A generation ago, there was a system that helped you not take on the risk yourself to pay for college education, but society took on the risk for you by making tuition cheap…We’ve shifted the risk from society directly to the student.” percent of gross domestic product (GDP).