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Corporate Capture: Can We Find a Way Out?

Steve Dubb -
This article, published originally by Nonprofit Quarterly, from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.” The aircraft manufacturer Boeing, granted the authority by the Federal Aviation Administration in 2009 to self-certify compliance, uses that authority to cut regulatory corners—with...
Friends & Neighbors

Amaha Sellassie: Beloved Community is a Present Possibility (a conversation)

Amaha Sellassie -
The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and the structure of belonging.  For this week's episode Joey Taylor speaks with Amaha Sellassie about the Gem City Market, West Dayton Strong and his article, Beloved Community is a Present Possibility. The...
Stories

When Actors Give Back Stolen Land

Art.Coop -
In this podcast produced by Remember the Future, we learn the story of a group of actors in Maine who decided to repair historic wrongs in their own community through returning land while also working to be in meaningful,...
Friends & Neighbors

Murmurations: From Rupture to Repair

Briana Herman-Brand -
Anote from adrienne maree brown: Briana Herman-Brand is a somatic practitioner and facilitator who is helping us learn how white folks become a part of racial and social justice work without centering—or disappearing—themselves. This is one of my deepest truths:...
Friends & Neighbors

How to Achieve Belonging without Othering: A Conversation with john a. powell

Steve Dubb -
Truth to Power is a regular series of conversations published by Nonprofit Quarterly with writers about the promises and pitfalls of movements for social justice. From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource...
Stories

Unlocking Community Ownership in Ft. Wayne, IN

Great Lakes Urban -
When neighbors are at the center of generating ideas and creating their visions, local resources, gifts and talents can be tapped and built upon rather than extracted or ignored. This story from the city of Ft. Wayne, IN illustrates...
Stories

Kinship over Transaction: How Bolivians Meet Community Needs

Mwende Hinojosa -
This article from Nonprofit Quarterly offers us a glimpse into time-tested traditions we can learn from the Bolivian people for practicing interdependence, mutuality, and self-governance to meet community needs.   Here in the Cochabamba Valley, days after Día de los Muertos (Day of...
Friends & Neighbors

The Imaginal Cells of the Solidarity Economy: Politics and Policy

Shareable -
What does an economy that works for all people and the planet look like? And what are the policies that can support and protect such an economy? We are living through an historic moment where a number of crises– climate...
Stories

The Story of the Clouds and the Forests

Ben Roberts -
There’s a story one often hears in conversations about systemic transformation that goes like this… We are headed in the wrong direction and there’s very little time to reverse course.  Because of the scale and speed of the change that...
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The Ghana Susu: Reimagining Financial Development

Caroline Shenaz Hossein -
Focused on local economies, the centuries-old system liberates communities from foreign, ‘expert-led’ development and the trap of dependence.   In the wake of global anti-racism movements and a growing awareness of the problematic dynamics of colonial knowledge-making in international development, governments, academics...
Toolkits

Why Social Coops Offer Potential Transformation of Care & More

Shareable -
Last week, the Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center (RMEOC), Shareable, and a growing list of partners launched the first session of the Social Cooperative Academy. The Academy will consist of eight weekly sessions from May 1st to June 19 and...
Conversations

Community Empowerment thru Self-Mastery

Kheprw Institute -
What is the relationship between community and self? What is the place of personal development in the work of addressing local issues and cultivating stronger local relationships? How can we hold space for conflict and for many generations in...
Stories

Drawing from Indigenous Wisdom: Centering Life in Society & Economy

Freida Jacques -
Building a "next system" to supplant the current systemic drivers of our economic and political crises should include the wisdom of Indigenous cultures rooted in non-capitalist social and economic forms that center life and nature. This panel discussion hosted...
Toolkits

Understanding Community-Led Approaches to Community Change

Lisa Attygale -
Fear is one of the biggest barriers that prevents changemakers from applying authentic community engagement practices. In this paper published through the Tamarack Institute, Lisa Attygalle explores the role of fear in the engagement process and provides practical strategies...
Friends & Neighbors

When It Comes to Cultivating Connectedness and Social Innovation, Aim For Discoverables, Not Deliverables

DeAmon Harges -
John McKnight said, “A competent community creates space for what is unknowable about life.” Too often, however, philanthropists and funding opportunities emphasize a desire for outcomes that produce neat, tidy, and predictable deliverables but waste opportunities to learn about...
Latest Thinking

In Pursuit of Liberated Mothering

A. Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez -
Cross-cultural dialogue, especially among moms of color, can build new narratives that challenge the legacies of white supremacy and foster healing. I learned early on that the words “family” and “parent” invisibly imply white. I saw no mothers who looked like...
Stories

Four Winning Models for Building Community Wealth

Deb Nelson -
In this article, originally published on Next City, we are taken on a tour of the work of four "financial activists" opening up community-controlled pathways for shared wealth and local thriving.   If we’re ever going to have a just economy,...
Toolkits

How to Transform the Way You Experience Winter

Natasha Deganello Giraudie -
As we enter the thick middle of winter, revisiting our relationship with this season can bring us back into a new kind of relationship with nature, ourselves, and community.   When I was a teenager, growing up in Caracas, Venezuela, my...
Friends & Neighbors

Murmurations: Moving from Punishment to Accountability

Kung Li Sun -
A note from adrienne maree brown: Kung Li Sun is an organizer who is always thinking of how to create radical collaborative spaces, from her Queer Fit radical health practice, to collective writing space, to the alternative history she’s...
Toolkits

Toolshare for Neighborhood Economics: Shopping & Business Directory

April Doner -
I would like to invite you along for a journey I've taken toward developing a tool I'm quite excited about for cultivating "community, economy, and mutual delight" (as coined years ago by community practitioners in and around Broadway United...
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Corporate Capture: Can We Find a Way Out?

This article, published originally by Nonprofit Quarterly, from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.” The aircraft manufacturer Boeing,...
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