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Building a Healthier Nail Salon Industry
A coalition of organizations in New York has made progress in improving the lives and health of nail salon workers.
Tag: Labor
Impact Investing
Impact Investing: Four Opportunities for 2016
Let’s be ambitious about using innovative financing to help sort out global supply chains, provide catalytic capital for energy transition, and link talent in emerging markets to online marketplaces.
Foundations
Casting a Tight Net
Humanity United is pursuing a strategy that combines carrots and sticks—collaboration and activism—to confront human rights abuse in the seafood industry. Includes magazine extras.
Economic Development
Lifting Up Day Labor
A social enterprise called In Every Story brings better pay—and a spirit of empathy—to a highly marginalized workforce.
Economic Development
An Incubator for Labor
Through the Workers Lab, union leaders aim to nurture “audacious ideas” that might reinvent the US labor movement.
Review
Economic Development
A More Perfect Union?
New ideas on how to empower US workers involve breaking free of current labor law.
Civil Society
From Petitions to Decisions
After Change.org placed petitions at the center of its platform, the size of its membership soared. But operating a high-volume petition site isn’t enough for its leaders. Includes magazine extras.
Impact Investing
Investing Evolves
A brief history of investing that advances environmental and social concerns, and why impact investors and sustainable investors should look to what they have in common, not how they differ.
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We Need More Scale, Not More Innovation
The president and CEO of The California Endowment discusses the importance of engaging in advocacy and community organizing.