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Organizing and Activism

  • CASA: A Powerhouse at Power-building for Immigrants and Working-class People

    CASA May 18, 2023

    Across the mid-Atlantic region, members of the nonprofit CASA are celebrating hard-fought victories, from the recent rent stabilization in Prince George’s County in Maryland to the closure of Berks County…

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    Workers Defense Project: How a Community-led Organization is Righting Injustices in Texas

    Workers Defense Project May 9, 2023

    More than 20 years ago, Workers Defense Project (WDP) started as a wage theft clinic in the broom closet of an immigrant and refugee shelter in response to the pervasive…

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    Pushing for Systems Change: How Social Movements Can Shift Society [We Give Summit]

    Philanthropy Together May 9, 2023

    From the abolitionists, suffragettes, and Civil Rights movement to the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, people have long been organizing movements for the rights we have today. During the Pushing…

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  • Embracing Community-led Development to Drive Local Change

    Alliance Magazine May 6, 2023

    As localization becomes a growing focus in international development, my colleagues and I at the Movement for Community-led Development (MCLD) are determined to ensure it becomes more than the flavour of the week.

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  • Animal Activists Acquitted in Criminal Trial

    Vox May 1, 2023

    Two activists from Direct Action Everywhere were just acquitted for taking factory-farmed chickens worth $16.

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  • Learnings From Union Strikes Against Universities

    Higher Education Dive May 1, 2023

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  • Iranian Women Have Been Rebelling Against Restrictions Since the Islamic Revolution in 1979

    The Conversation Apr 23, 2023

    Shouts of “death to the dictator” and “woman, life, freedom” are reverberating throughout the streets of Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman, while in custody of…

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  • Change Must Address Root Causes

    Skoll Foundation Apr 22, 2023

    Covid-19 has been far more than a public health crisis. The ripple effect of the pandemic, and our uneven response to it, has triggered economic crisis, deepened inequalities, exploited our…

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  • BIPOC Leaders Are Addressing Multiple Crises

    Nonprofit Quarterly Apr 21, 2023

    Transformative healing work is essential to getting us from the world that exists to the world we are calling. We do this work from the belief that we will hit a tipping point when leaders who truly want to transform our conditions, the ecosystem, and the way we lead reach a critical mass.

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  • Fracking the System: What Donors Should Know about Climate Activism in Colorado

    Brian Hedden, Filmmaker Apr 17, 2023

    As climate change increasingly impacts our daily lives, the conversation about the sources for our energy consumption is taking center stage. Further complicated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, so-called “natural…

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  • Lessons Learned From A Campaign to Advance Racial Equity

    degrees Apr 13, 2023

    For the Voices of Truth campaign, FHI 360, Jefferson County Memorial Project and Kids in Birmingham 1963 worked with Blank Space Bham to create a mural about racial justice.

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  • Why ‘Net-zero’ Doesn’t Work

    Grist Apr 12, 2023

    How the logic of carbon neutrality got “lit on fire” by big polluters.

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