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Why Reparations Can Counter the Legacy of a 50-Year “War on Drugs”

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The War on Drugs Is Personal The War on Drugs has been a half-century-long, concerted, militarized campaign led by the US government to enforce prohibitions on the importation, manufacture, use, sale, and distribution of substances deemed to be illegal, advancing a punitive rather than a public health approach to drug use.

Public and Social Policy

Public and Social Policy Law Psychology Poverty

Recentering Philanthropy toward Social Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 4, 2023

And they’re not looking for a nonprofit grantmaking vehicle; they’re looking for ways to invest in, say, businesses that will sustain not only their immediate family but an entire community, because of threats that their families are facing—whether political threats or climate or economic issues. Movement leaders were asking for it.

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Philanthropy Race and Ethnicity Recruitment Foundations

Why Reparations Can Counter the Legacy of a 50-Year “War on Drugs”

Recentering Philanthropy toward Social Justice

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