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The Next 4 Years: Tapping Into Nonprofit Expertise

The NonProfit Times

Secretary of Health and Human Service Nancy Brown Chief Executive Officer American Heart Association Under Brown’s leadership as CEO since 2008, the AHA has become a global authority on cardiovascular and brain health as well as overall well-being. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jonathan T.M.

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??How Community-Based Public Space Can Build Civic Trust: Lessons from Akron

NonProfit Quarterly

Many times, government and nonprofit representatives had come to Starleen’s Summit Lake neighborhood and indicated that things were going to improve, but not much ever came of it. “My My first thought was, ‘Here we go. A bunch of professionals are coming in to tell us what they are going to do,’” said Saulsberry.

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Shifting the Harmful Narratives and Practices of Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

Work requirements are based on several problematic truths about the United States: an unwillingness to govern by fact rather than fiction, a deep history of racism and sexism, and a centuries-long capitalist work ethic that treats people as dispensable. They are administratively efficient.

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New data for strategic disaster philanthropy 

Candid

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) provided $22 billion in official development assistance. Non-DAC government donors and multilateral organizations contributed an additional $2.8 billion. . The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) distributed $3.2

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The EPA Launches Final Strategy on Lead Mitigation

NonProfit Quarterly

In developing the report, the EPA accepted feedback from the public from October 2021 through March 2022 and conducted nearly a dozen public listening sessions, including one for tribal communities as they are some of the most impacted by lead. Over 2 million homes were revealed to contain lead hazards in the soil surrounding them.

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Fisheries and Stewardship: Lessons from Native Hawaiian Aquaculture

NonProfit Quarterly

In Hawai‘i, these forces, population loss from introduced diseases, and rapid sociopolitical change, including the overthrow of the Hawaiian government by American plantation owners in 1893, drove dramatic changes to every aspect of Hawaiian life, including loko i‘ a. Stannard, American Anthropological Association 15, no.

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Tenants Nationwide Call for Social Housing Now!

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Seattle City Council on Wikimedia Commons Across the country, renters and unhoused people are organizing to demand that all levels of government address the nation’s housing crisis. It is democratically managed through the input of resident associations, tenant unions, and surrounding communities.