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Puerto Rican Advocates Pursue Community Control of Renewable Energy

NonProfit Quarterly

In its wake, a grassroots movement to create distributed, renewable energy has gained considerable ground. The logic behind this community movement for distributed, community-owned renewable energy is clear. million households and, according to the US Census Bureau , a poverty rate of 41.7 But challenges persist.

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Local Militias Step into Government Gaps

NonProfit Quarterly

In recent years, the group, labeled by the Southern Poverty Law Center as right-wing extremists , has been painting a different picture of itself—as a disaster relief organization. Growing Activation In addition to trying to grow numbers, local militia groups are attempting to expand how they train for combat.

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Report Calls on Atlantans to Reduce City’s Enormous Racial Wealth Gap

NonProfit Quarterly

Ability to cover three months’ worth of bills: This is what is known as an “asset poverty” measure. Income poverty: In Atlanta, 28 percent of Black households live below the federal poverty line; only seven percent of White households do. Median household income: In Atlanta, the median Black household has an income of $38,854.

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What Does Tribal Land Stewardship Look Like?

NonProfit Quarterly

A Montana State study from 2019 estimated that the poverty rate statewide for Native communities exceeded 30 percent. Stewardship, Adelzadeh emphasizes, “has always been a community activity, with the transfer of knowledge from elders to youth.” Fort Belknap Reservation: Montana Poverty Report Card. The Path Forward.

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Building Supply Chains Where Smallholder Farmers Thrive

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As the United Nations highlights, eradicating poverty is the greatest global challenge and an absolute requirement for sustainable development. To achieve this, more businesses need to join with the government and civil society to actively confront inequality, poverty, and climate change together. A Tyranny of Tradeoffs.

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Grounding Leadership in Community Wisdom

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Anpetu Wi is not only the largest Native-owned alternative energy project in the world, but also a true form of just transition in which Native people will own and control the energy. “For our people and me, this project is a prayer,” says Joseph McNeil, Jr., general manager of SAGE.

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Building Youth Power

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Primed by the undocumented youth movement at the beginning of the decade, and drawing energy from the allied Movement for Black Lives in the latter half, these groups engaged growing numbers of adolescents in addressing local, regional, and even statewide issues.