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Image credit: TuiPhotoengineer on istock.com This is the fifth and final article in NPQ ’s series titled Building Power, Fighting Displacement: Stories from Asian Pacific America , coproduced with the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American CommunityDevelopment ( National CAPACD ).
Sometimes, nonprofits advance economic justice; sometimes, they are part of the problem. Often, the very same nonprofit that is advocating for social justice policy may pay its own workers poverty-level wages. The other five work for nonprofit intermediary organizations.
BIPOC communities are disproportionately impacted by social inequality, with higher rates of poverty and unemployment. This can make it difficult for BIPOC-led organizations to address the needs of their communities effectively, and can also limit their ability to attract and retain talented staff and volunteers.
million nonprofitorganizations, causes, and movements. Examples of PRIs include investments in communitydevelopment financial institutions, which make loans to small businesses owned by members of economically disadvantaged groups in underinvested communities. In 2023 alone, U.S.
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For instance, the Anchorage Community Land Trust , which began in 2003 and is the oldest example reviewed in the report, acquired land in a BIPOC neighborhood that had a 25.1 percent poverty rate (as of 2001). It operates one building that leases to seven nonprofitorganizations.
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And we knew that poverty and racism were deeply entrenched, and that takes more than three years. Or we can think at a historical level about why we see the growth of inequality and the nonprofit sector. We would hope and expect that nonprofits are reducing poverty and reducing inequality. We wouldn’t expect that, right?
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