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Holding Our Ground: Tenant Organizing in San Francisco’s Mission District

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MEDA, a community organization formed in 1973, was a product of this activism. This allows more opportunity for racial, class, and cultural diversity within San Francisco. In the 1960s, city planners wanted to use federal urban renewal dollars to “improve” the neighborhood by building massive high-rises.

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The Big Chill: Why Nonprofits Should Care about Affirmative Action

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The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation , for example, went so far as to invest in preparatory research to explore the implications of an unfavorable decision for the philanthropic efforts of charitable foundations and the activities of nonprofit organizations, which they shared on their website. Recommendation 3: Focus on protection.