Click here to learn more about this new series from Edge Studios, and follow @npquarterly and @offthehookshorts on social to see episodes of “Off the Hook” as they are released. (Saphia paces around her apartment as she attempts to draft a voice note on her phone.) SAPHIA: Hey, Mari. I thought this would just be easier over voice
The following is a transcript of the video above, from our webinar on “Remaking the Economy: Tenant Organizing in Unexpected Places.” View the full webinar here. As an attorney, I am often talking to organizers about the limitations of the law. I think that’s a really important conversation to always be having. I know that
Image credit: Kenny Eliason on unsplash.com This is the fifth article in NPQ’s series titled Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. Coproduced with the National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders, a national network of Latinx community development groups, this series highlights community preservation, land ownership, and business development efforts in Latinx and immigrant communities across
The first lesson I learned while working in the healthcare industry was this: Expect change. Every year there was guaranteed to be a policy or procedural change that required change management, which led to the second lesson I learned: Figure out how to make the change last. Organizations that successfully navigate change management have also
Image Credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang In August 2018, the first legislation explicitly naming worker-owned cooperatives—the Main Street Employee Ownership Act—became United States federal law. Up to this point, legislation for most worker co-ops was not a priority; federal policy wasn’t even a pipe dream. Most worker co-ops saw and still see themselves as embedded within a
