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Changeforge Offers Free Websites to Nonprofits

Changeforge Offers Free Websites to Nonprofits | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
What happens when programmers, designers, and activists join forces? Change happens. Or, more specifically, Changeforge happens.
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How To: Share, Save Money & Have Fun

How To: Share, Save Money & Have Fun | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Are you curious about the sharing movement but not sure where to begin? Or, are you a sharing maven and want to inspire your friends and family to integrate sharing into their lives? Either way, we have the perfect resource for you to experience how sharing, in both big and small ways, can turn your life around.
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Fork the Economy

Fork the Economy | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
I've given up on fixing the economy. The economy is not broken. It's simply unjust. There's a difference. We have to stop looking at our economy as a broken system, but one that is working absolutely true to its original design. It's time to be progressive -- and this means initiating systemic changes.
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A New Internationalism

A New Internationalism | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
For well over a century, a shared commitment to internationalism has defined what it means to be Left. Even when we do not use that particular word, rooted in the "proletarian internationalism&qu
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Clay Shirky on Nonprofits Copy

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The Rise of Anti-Capitalism

The Rise of Anti-Capitalism | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
As production costs plummet, the future lies with nonprofits.
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Nonprofits Imagine a Better Sharing Economy - The TechSoup Blog - Community - TechSoup

Nonprofits Imagine a Better Sharing Economy - The TechSoup Blog - Community - TechSoup | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
The TechSoup blog is your source for product donation updates, nonprofit news, technology tips and advice, and innovations in the social sector.
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The Trickle Down Economics of Credit Unions

The Trickle Down Economics of Credit Unions | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Photo credit: LendingMemo / Foter / CC BY. As the U.S. continues to recover from the financial crisis started over seven years ago, the prospect of "too big to fail" banks still lingers because no real reforms have been made in the financial sector. 
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“It would be easy to be pessimistic, but pessimism has never changed the world”: Life lessons from a global poverty hero

“It would be easy to be pessimistic, but pessimism has never changed the world”: Life lessons from a global poverty hero | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

In the days of armchair activism, where many get their activism fix by “liking” a progressive Facebook post, I’m fascinated by people like Kathleen who move beyond the safety of their computers and get their hands dirty in the world’s problems. Ten years ago Kathleen started a non-profit organization, The BOMA Project, after witnessing extreme poverty in northern Kenya. BOMA provides small grants to women so they can start small businesses in the drylands of Africa, where some of the continent’s most vulnerable residents face the challenges of climate change brought on by extreme drought. Since 2009, BOMA has helped change the lives of nearly 45,000 women and children.

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About CIGI | Centre for International Governance Innovation - YouTube

The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) is an independent, non-partisan think tank on international governance. Led by experienced practitioners and distinguished academics, CIGI supports research, forms networks, advances policy debate and generates ideas for multilateral governance improvements. Conducting an active agenda of research, events and publications, CIGI's interdisciplinary work includes collaboration with policy, business and academic communities around the world.


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Bitcoin Donations Can Now Fund Mine-Detecting 'Super Rats'

Bitcoin Donations Can Now Fund Mine-Detecting 'Super Rats' | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Belgian nonprofit APOPO is now accepting bitcoin donations to fund its land-mine and tuberculosis-detecting giant rats in Africa and Asia.
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WikiStage.org

WikiStage.org | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
WikiStage is about curiosity. It is a collaborative non-profit project of people around the world who think it is important to never stop learning and to stay curious.
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Owning Is the New Sharing

Owning Is the New Sharing | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

One chilly morning last winter, I reconnected with an old friend, Joel Dietz, on a video chat. We hadn’t seen each other for years, and we’d each had several starts and stops in our lives since. He began telling me about his latest undertaking, Evergreen, a digital currency system that he described as “organic” and “without additives.” I was doing all I could to understand it, and he was struggling to fund it in a way that suited his vision. He needed money, and quickly, but he didn’t want to sabotage his ideals in the process.

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The Co-ops Collapse: How GOP & Insurers Undercut Obamacare's Nonprofit Option, Leaving 500K Uninsured

The Co-ops Collapse: How GOP & Insurers Undercut Obamacare's Nonprofit Option, Leaving 500K Uninsured | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
As the Obamacare open enrollment period begins, it’s the end for many healthcare co-ops, leaving hundreds of thousands of people scrambling to find coverage. The co-ops were founded to offer a cheaper alternative on insurance exchanges after Democrats stopped demanding a public option. But since going live three years ago, the co-ops have faced major cutbacks from the Republican-controlled Congress. Now the system is faltering, with at least eight health insurance co-ops shutting down. The co-op closures have left some 500,000 people without insurance—and a marketplace of fewer choices and higher prices. It’s the kind of scenario that advocates of a single-payer system warned about from the outset: With Obamacare relying on for-profit insurance companies to provide coverage, the market will find a way to squeeze out those who need it most. We are joined by three guests: physician, professor and single-payer advocate Dr. Steffie Woolhandler; Wendell Potter, a former insurance executive turned whistleblower; and Julia Hutchins, chief executive officer of Colorado HealthOP, a consumer-directed, nonprofit health cooperative in Colorado that was forced to shut down last month.
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The Top 10 Sharing Economy Predictions for 2016, by the Experts

The Top 10 Sharing Economy Predictions for 2016, by the Experts | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

The sharing movement is evolving quickly and in many directions. The growth of platform and worker co-ops, increased awareness of the commons, the evolution of coworking, an explosion of tech-enabled sharing services, and more are opening up promising if not challenging frontiers.

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Reversing the Mississippi: A Tale of Two Changemakers

Reversing the Mississippi: A Tale of Two Changemakers | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Reversing the Mississippi director Ian Midgley and subject Marcin Jakubowski. (Reversing the Mississippi / Facebook)
Vivalist's curator insight, November 12, 2015 3:38 AM

A concrete example of people getting together to change things, not waiting for a political knight in a shiny armour to take care of the real problems - how so many people are left behind.

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Shareable’s Top 21 New Books for Summer

Shareable’s Top 21 New Books for Summer | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Have you started a summer reading list? For those of us interested in the sharing economy, there is no shortage of great reads. Whether your interests lie in collaboration, sustainable cities, community-building, simplicity, or work in the new economy, there is something for everyone. We’ve rounded up the top 21 books for summer to inspire, empower, and inform.
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A lot of non profit entreprises created by the younger generation are changing the world

Jeremy Rifkin (President of Foundation on Economic Trend) suggestions to encourage the younger generation to take up the challenge of becoming an ...
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Robert Reich: Colleges, Churches and Non-Profits Doing the Wealthy's Dirty Work

Robert Reich: Colleges, Churches and Non-Profits Doing the Wealthy's Dirty Work | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
It's bad enough that they've bought our politicians. Now the wealthy have bought off the only institutions that can counter their influence.
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Bitcoin for Nonprofit Organizations – Regulations and Reservations - newsBTC

Bitcoin for Nonprofit Organizations – Regulations and Reservations - newsBTC | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Nonprofit organizations have to comply with government regulations which conflicts with the anonymity aspect of bitcoin. Bitcoin donations still ....
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App Makes Donor-Advised Funds More Accessible - The Nonprofit Quarterly

App Makes Donor-Advised Funds More Accessible - The Nonprofit Quarterly | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Getting nonprofits in front of the sponsors and donors behind donor-advised funds has always been a challenge, but DAF Direct makes it easier, and its sponsors are making the tool itself simpler to use.
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New Report Explores The Commons as a Paradigm to Align Movements

New Report Explores The Commons as a Paradigm to Align Movements | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
The proliferation of activist initiatives calling for systemic change around the world has never been more impressive. Yet collaborations among like-minded organizations, projects and movements have been disappointingly modest. As neoliberal economics and policies tighten their grip on American society—notwithstanding the dismal misbehavior of financial institutions, corporations and the two political parties—can leading alt-economic and social movements find ways to work more closely together?
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Beyond Bitcoin: Legal Pathways for Blockchain Enterprises

Beyond Bitcoin: Legal Pathways for Blockchain Enterprises | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
The technologies that undergird Bitcoin transactions have advanced to suggest other, non-financial applications. (Bitcoin Magazine)
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From nonprofits, the best of 2014 and the plans for 2015 - Fort Worth Star Telegram (blog)

From nonprofits, the best of 2014 and the plans for 2015 - Fort Worth Star Telegram (blog) | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
With only a few days remaining in 2014, we thought it would be fun to randomly contact a few local nonprofit groups and ask what they believed was the most significant achievement of their organization this past year.
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The Tale of Two Sharing Cities, Part Two

The Tale of Two Sharing Cities, Part Two | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Saturday night in the Hongdae district of Seoul. Restaurants, bars, and nightclubs line the streets four stories high for blocks. The crowds in the street cover acres of blacktop. It's nightlife on mega-city scale.
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