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Preserving Cambodia Town: How A Refugee Community Has Organized Itself

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Ian Nicole Reambonanza on Unsplash This is the fourth article in NPQ ’s series titled Building Power, Fighting Displacement: Stories from Asian Pacific America, coproduced with the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development ( National CAPACD ). How does a refugee community organize itself?

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Preserving Places of Belonging in Asian America: The Value of Community Voice

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Photo by Raychan on Unsplash This article introduces a new NPQ series, titled Building Power, Fighting Displacement: Stories from Asian Pacific America, coproduced with the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development ( National CAPACD ). What Is Comprehensive Community Development?

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Changing the Health System: A Community-Led Approach Rises in Rhode Island

NonProfit Quarterly

A few years later, I worked as a minority health coordinator, focusing on racial and ethnic minority populations in Rhode Island—on people like me, who come here with dreams and hopes to do better but often find themselves without the resources or opportunities they need. Bottom line: the NEZ initiative is not just a program.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

11 Nor are the economic data any more encouraging when one measures inequality by race. 15 Today’s economy places a premium on being able to access social networks to jump from job to job, which reinforces existing privilege, because the very definition of social networks in the job market depends on having connections in high places.

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Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Massive investments in climate solutions such as carbon markets, CO2 sequestration, and energy alternatives had no material effect on slowing global warming. Like Nussbaum’s framework for healthy context, researchers have developed comprehensive approaches applicable to individuals. Real progress seems elusive.

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Housing and Health: Creating Solutions With Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Decades of discriminatory housing, transportation, and land-use policy combined with economic disinvestment have resulted in communities that are residentially segregated by income, race, ethnicity, language, and immigration status. Creating a Learning Community.

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2024 Nonprofit Voter Guide

MNA Association

The questionnaire was shared with all registered candidates for statewide offices with particular relevance for nonprofits, including both federal and state-level races. Make sure there are no roadblocks in place preventing non-profits from acquiring services or setting up systems in financial markets, including the insurance markets.