From member-managed LLC to co-op reform for inclusive economies
By: Trebor Scholz, Anne-Pauline De Cler, Michelle Lee, Morshed Mannan, Stefano Tortorici Co-op News
How a Worker-Managed Nonprofit Adjusted to Growth
By Sue Bennett, Nonprofit Quarterly
Communities Take Development Into Their Own Hands
By Keith Schneider, The New York Times
Paper Knives Destroy poor peoples lives
By Tiny Gray POOR Magazine
At this point Terry’s family is literally on the street. We are trying to raise money to get them into a motel. And an attorney to get them some rights in that completely unjust, arbitrary Probate court system where the well-funded parties always take legal precedence over any kind of so-called justice. The liberation lawyers at Sustainable Economies Law Center are also working to support them and we are planning a press conference soon.
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(Originally published January 8, 2024)
Making Economic Democracy Work: How to Practice Shared Leadership
By Nicole Wires, Non Profit Quarterly
Can movement nonprofits create and sustain liberatory and resilient structures, cultures, and practices—and still be effective and efficient in their operations?
This question was at the center of an experiment led by the Nonprofit Democracy Network, a fiscally sponsored project of the Sustainable Economies Law Center. The experiment, called Collaborate to Co-Liberate, brought together over 200 practitioners from nearly 90 organizations across the country (and beyond) for 15 months to co-develop ways to build accountable, self-governing, and radically democratic organizations that embody liberatory visions while preserving overall effectiveness.
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(Originally published November 28, 2023)
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 to support pregnant people and new parents.
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By Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle