NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 23, 2024

As a Black cisgendered woman, a first-generation college student from the deep South, and a person born in poverty, social justice movements have touched every aspect of my life. For example, we all have different experiences related to resources that have provided underlying values associated with spending money.

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Leadership Poverty Culture Values 126

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2024

From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world. And luckily there were materials. So, she started the co-op. She had people farming together.

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Food Activism Poverty Leadership 88

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Last month, the Opportunity Finance Network (OFN), the nation’s leading community development financial institution (CDFI) trade association, held its first in-person national conference in three years in New York City. At a panel on rural poverty, Dana Bezerra, president of the Heron Foundation , called for shifts of narrative and power. “We

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Finance Community Development Public and Social Policy Poverty 110

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This approach would also systematically integrate socio-economic issues such as co-locating affordable housing and transit. International Positive Psychology Association When focusing on a healthy context, there is a risk of falling into naïve holism, an ineffective mindset commonly seen in system perspectives.

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Philanthropy Homelessness Psychology Health 139