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How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate

NonProfit Quarterly

Decades of policy changes, however, often under the radar, today inhibit many diverse kinds of association. [We Public policy needs to facilitate large-scale financing for mutualist enterprises—organizations like cooperatives , employee-ownership trusts , and mutual insurance companies. This must be rectified.

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Sharing Meals

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For example, the Rhode Island Food Policy Council (RIFPC) is the backbone network for the people, businesses, government agencies, and community organizations that make up Rhode Island’s food system. Learn new structures Food Policy Councils take different forms. To create change in such a system requires systems leadership.

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Navigating DEI Challenges: Strategic Advice for Nonprofits to Meet the Moment

NonProfit PRO

These shifts have introduced uncertainty for organizations committed to equity, as they put funding, legal standing and public perception in flux. Some helpful questions to consider: How vulnerable are your funding streams to changes in public policy or political oversight? What are their social identity markers?

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Navigating DEI Challenges: Strategic Advice for Purpose-Driven Organizations to Meet the Moment

NonProfit PRO

These shifts have introduced uncertainty for organizations committed to equity, as they put funding, legal standing and public perception in flux. Some helpful questions to consider: How vulnerable are your funding streams to changes in public policy or political oversight? What are their social identity markers?

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Day in the Life of a Nonprofit Communicator – Lauren Lawson-Zilai

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Lauren Lawson-Zilai is the director of public relations and national spokesperson for Goodwill Industries International , a social enterprise that provides job training to nearly ten million people a year through the sale of donated clothes and household goods. We meet to discuss their progress on their goals and objectives.

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Reimagining the Role of Business in Protecting Biodiversity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

To combat this crisis, governments and international bodies have turned to diverse policy frameworks for biodiversity preservation at national, regional, and global levels. These policies hold a clear expectation for global corporations to engage in and promote biodiversity conservation and restoration.

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India’s Philanthropy Spending Grows, Development Goals Elusive

The NonProfit Times

Despite the robust annual increases, however, the current total falls short of the 13% of GDP analysts at NITI Aayog, an Indian government public policy think tank, believe is necessary for the country to meet its commitment to achieving 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. That amount constituted 8.3%