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Indigenous and Black Land Justice Film: Participatory Narrative Workshop

Indigenous and Black Land Justice Film: Participatory Narrative Workshop

Imagine Indigenous and Black people free to love and live with liberated Land. Imagine the unique gifts the Land and her people have to offer future generations. This is happening now—a groundswell, a watershed moment. This is happening here—in Northern California Continue Reading

How Our Nonprofit Got a 40-Week Paid Parental Leave Policy

How Our Nonprofit Got a 40-Week Paid Parental Leave Policy

By Tia Katrina Taruc-Myers, Nonprofit Quarterly Excerpt: The Sustainable Economies Law Center is a nonprofit organization democratically run by staff co-stewards who are caring, trusting, and radical. Still, the proposal for a 40-week paid parental leave policy proposal was controversial. Along with my two co-workers, I helped draft an organizational policy proposal... Continue Reading

Endowments in the Age of Extinction: How Foundations Can Legally Activate their Endowments to Fight Climate and Economic Crises

Endowments in the Age of Extinction: How Foundations Can Legally Activate their Endowments to Fight Climate and Economic Crises

This is an embarrassing situation, to say the least: We have a narrow window of time in which to take action and avert massive extinctions, sea level rise, and other climate disasters. We’re also watching the rapid spread of global poverty, inequality, and community displacement. Meanwhile, U.S. philanthropic foundations sit... Continue Reading

From Apprentice to Attorney: Ricardo Nuñez on his Experience in the Law Office Study Program

From Apprentice to Attorney: Ricardo Nuñez on his Experience in the Law Office Study Program

In California, apprenticing in a law office or alongside a practicing attorney is a little-known pathway to becoming a lawyer. Becoming a lawyer without going to law school means you can sidestep the debt, and trauma-inducing, white dominant culture of law school, and are able to create the learning environment... Continue Reading

Law for Economic Democracy: A Failed Experiment in Building Community

Law for Economic Democracy: A Failed Experiment in Building Community

In the early days of the Law Center, co-founder and staff attorney Janelle Orsi had a vision of bringing together 1 million lawyers in the name of economic democracy. This vision motivated Law Center staff to build a community of cooperative legal workers, which would come to be known as... Continue Reading

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