Is This the Key to Improving Prison Life?

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Janelle Orsi: What if No One Could Save Money?

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Cuba: se realizó el II Simposio Internacional sobre Cooperativas

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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


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How a Worker-Managed Nonprofit Adjusted to Growth

By Sue Bennett, Nonprofit Quarterly
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Communities Take Development Into Their Own Hands

By Keith Schneider, The New York Times

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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)

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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)

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

By Tia Katrina Taruc-Myers, Nonprofit Quarterly

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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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How to move your retirement funds out of Wall Street and into a good cause

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