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KeMeK Philanthropy

Tag: Social Change

  • Restoring our capacities: How an asset lens can serve movements today

    Restoring our capacities: How an asset lens can serve movements today

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    This article was originally published by NPQ Online on July 23, 2025, https://nonprofitquarterly.org/restoring-our-capacities-how-an-asset-lens-can-serve-movements-today/. Used with permission. “What do we want? Asset-based community development! When do we want it? Now!” That is a chant that I am pretty sure has never been uttered at a rally anywhere. Nonetheless, many movement activists, knowingly or otherwise, depend on asset-based…

  • The Liberating Power of the Commonsverse

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    A key reason that so many social and ecological pathologies persist, despite strenuous efforts to solve them, is that the narrow frame for solving them. Our political culture sees capitalist markets and growth as the only serious vehicles for progressive change. When private property, corporate profitmaking, and the commodification of nature are seen as sacrosanct,…

  • Systems are breaking—And that’s our opportunity

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    A few months ago, I reconnected with a friend whom I had worked with on an initiative on ‘the sharing economy’. At the time, we were both ‘Young Global Leaders’ (YGLs) with the World Economic Forum. It was 2013, and we had volunteered our time to bring attention to how new technologies could be used…

  • Our Task Ahead: Reclaiming Revolutionary Struggle in Atlanta and the South

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    This article was originally published by NPQ online on March 26, 2025 at https://nonprofitquarterly.org/our-task-ahead-reclaiming-revolutionary-struggle-in-atlanta-and-the-south/. Used with permission. State of the Movements is a recurring NPQ column dedicated to tracking the pulse of social movements and the solidarity economy in 2025.  “As goes the South, so goes the nation.” This maxim may not yet be standard among political analysts, but its truth…