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The Next 4 Years: Tapping Into Nonprofit Expertise

The NonProfit Times

She has spearheaded innovation in heart and stroke prevention with AHA active in more than 100 countries. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jonathan T.M. She teams with and coordinates with other environmental nonprofits to use every law on the books to battle climate change and polluters. Cook, Ph.D.

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We Must Be Founders

Stanford Social Innovation Review

We need to reimagine our laws, regulations, customs, and institutions. What if we had a Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that took its mandate to ensure human flourishing rather than real estate profit? We need to be much more aspirational and long-term in our thinking. It won’t be easy.

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Whose Capital? Our Capital! The Power of Workers’ Pensions for the Common Good

NonProfit Quarterly

million active working members and 12 million public employee retirees, 5 because many pension funds are “underfunded.” As unions head into bargaining, they should have fully developed proposals geared to moving pension money away from harmful investments and into good community ones. Connecting to broader fights and movements.

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Countering Criminalization: The Vital Role of Organizing Against Homelessness

NonProfit Quarterly

A recent US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) report identified 771,000 homeless people in January 2024, a record number that was 18 percent higher than the previous year, which in turn marked a 12 percent increase over 2022. Its a different kind of organizing and activism, Theoharis explains.

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Community Development Must Center Power Building: A San Francisco Story

NonProfit Quarterly

Chinese American attorney Ed Lee (who later served as mayor from 2011 until his untimely death while in office in 2017), with the Asian Law Caucus, supported PYRIA leaders, like Chang Jok Lee, to organize the city’s largest sustained public housing rent strike in response to unsafe conditions that contributed to the murder of one of its residents.

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“Educational Purposes”: Nonprofit Land as a Vital Site of Struggle

NonProfit Quarterly

4 Once on Prospect, I was awash in a sea of excitement and activity as over 150 residents, labor activists, students, and onlookers buzzed about, handing out food and water, playing with young children, stewarding informational tables, dancing to the music, and finishing a massive art project that immediately drew my attention.

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Federal Workers Organize to Counter “Deferred Resignation” Memo

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Chelsea Bland In the wake of a January 28 government memo titled Fork in the Road encouraging federal workers to resign their positions, and mounting warnings of mass layoffs (including the threat to lay off over 10,000 US Agency for International Development workers ), unions and their members are increasingly going public.