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From Food Pantry to Urban Farming: Food Justice Lessons from Camden

NonProfit Quarterly

But the Center aspires to do more—to advance economic empowerment in an environmentally sustainable way. One strategy for achieving that vision is to support urban agriculture and community agency, giving people the chance to produce their own food. A Camden community vision emerges. Food pantry work is important.

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What Does Tribal Land Stewardship Look Like?

NonProfit Quarterly

The resources involved were modest ($240,000 total) but the ambition was large—namely, to assist Native nations to “regain control of their land and natural resources, revitalize traditional stewardship practices, and build sustainable stewardship initiatives that contribute to tribal economic and community development opportunities.”

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Fighting for Cleaner Air in East Boston

NonProfit Quarterly

Through collaborative action, Mothers Out Front East Boston is fighting for the right to breathe clean air and live and work in a community that is safe and healthy. We are demanding equal protection and equal enforcement of environmental laws and regulations.

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Impact investing: Catalyzing systemic change 

Candid

According to Fidelity Charitable , it’s “the act of purposefully making investments that help achieve certain social and environmental benefits while generating financial returns.” The Heron Foundation , for example, works with mission-aligned, poverty-oriented investment managers to grow its assets. What is impact investing?

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Ongoing neglect and isolation led to entrenched, concentrated poverty and a growing distrust of civic leaders. The result of their work is more places for people to gather and experience nature, increased social cohesion, restored civic trust, and perhaps most importantly, community development that benefits all residents.

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Gumbo for the Struggle: Recipes of Liberation from the Cultural Kitchen

NonProfit Quarterly

During the pandemic, economic inequity and social and environmental injustice became hypervisible. What marginalized communities already understood became topics of conversation in the public square. million in renovations to support a community-developed plan to reopen this legacy site as a collectively owned community asset.

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Action Steps to Grow Climate-Driven Philanthropy in Rural Communities

NonProfit Quarterly

Here, we detail how philanthropists can expand and diversify their portfolios to better meet the short- and long-term needs of rural communities of color. Of that total, the United States Environmental Protection Agency found that a minuscule 0.73 million) was specifically directed to rural communities. percent ($9.7