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When It Comes to Promoting Prosperity, Production Beats Consumption

Stanford Social Innovation Review

To do so, a range of inputs is required: land, infrastructure of various types, raw materials, policies and regulations, machines and technology, and critically, the know-how of individuals and groups to bring these all together for the purposes of producing something.

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How To Get The Most Out of Your Case Management Software

GiveGab

They do the admirable and time-intensive work that makes our communities a better place to live, and technology plays an undeniable role in that. Your strategies can only be as effective as the technology that backs them, so start with a solution that’s equipped with the features your team needs.

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Fisheries and Stewardship: Lessons from Native Hawaiian Aquaculture

NonProfit Quarterly

1 While techniques of herding or trapping adult fish in shallow tidal areas, in estuaries, and along their inland migration can be found around the globe, Hawaiians developed loko i‘a that are technologically unique, advancing the cultivation practice of mahi i‘a (fish farmers). 4 (July–August 2019): 232.

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“Educational Purposes”: Nonprofit Land as a Vital Site of Struggle

NonProfit Quarterly

6 Schools like Stanford, MIT, and Yale immediately scrambled to create technology transfer offices that helped them privatize and profit from the work done in laboratories sitting on tax-exempt land. Real estate developers like Wexford: Science + Technology have calculated the benefits of working on property-tax-exempt campus land.

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The City That Was in a Forest—Atlanta’s Disappeared Trees and Black People: A Conversation with Hugh “H. D.” Hunter

NonProfit Quarterly

Natives of the city have gone through false promises of positive urban development 4 —development that instead, in most cases, came at an unbearable cost. But in order to fully contextualize what it means to protect Atlanta’s natural habitat, we must first dive deep into Atlanta as a home to Black folks.

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Housing and Climate: Funding Holistic Solutions

Stanford Social Innovation Review

We desperately need both mitigation and adaptation—and that means we cannot simply focus on exciting new products and technologies. by storing solar energy), and thinking about what happens to housing after major climate events. We also have to remediate the harm that has already been done.