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How to Advance BIPOC Empowerment in the Renewable Energy Industry

NonProfit Quarterly

At stake is whether or not frontline BIPOC communities are able to capitalize on a key provision of the IRA that facilitates the rapid growth of community solar. Advocates are still fighting for community-driven and community-owned solar processes. Distributed solar comes at a high price, however.

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Democracy in Peril: In South Africa, Will Philanthropy Back Economic Justice?

NonProfit Quarterly

percent of the country’s 63 million people living in poverty, gross domestic product growth that slowed to 0.6 For example, Limpopo returned over US $6 million in unspent grants —money earmarked for community development—back to the Treasury from 2022 to 2023. With an estimated 55.5

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From Owing to Owning: How Communities Can Control Commercial Land

NonProfit Quarterly

The restoration includes space for sausage production, with the Vaucresson family operating a café on the site. As for initiatives underway in the Twin Cities and Los Angeles, both efforts are nascent, but both groups also appear to have developed a strong set of partners, making these efforts promising.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

Previously, he said, “for much of the field of community organizing, there was a lot more race neutrality.” 23 William Gale, codirector of the Urban Brookings Tax Policy Center, concurs. Steve Dubb, “What Does Community Development for Liberation Look Like?,” Nonprofits often play quasi-governmental roles.

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Unlikely Advocates: Worker Co-ops, Grassroots Organizing, and Public Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

Up to this point, legislation for most worker co-ops was not a priority; federal policy wasn’t even a pipe dream. Public policy wasn’t really a part of our culture. Why Prioritize Public Policy and Advocacy? 6 Engaging in public policy advocacy is not without its dangers. Until it was.

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A Political Roadmap to Social Housing: How Do We Win?

NonProfit Quarterly

Politicians are influenced by money as much as or, frankly, often much more than votes, and public policy is the product of calculating trade-offs between the two. Policy changes without accompanying operational support and infrastructure are like trees without roots.

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Driving Change in Housing Policies With Advocacy and Organizing

Stanford Social Innovation Review

We also work with peer philanthropies on policy, advocacy, and organizing to pool grants, co-invest capital, and collaborate on learning opportunities for funders and the field. Our main strategy is to build and support the infrastructure needed for a powerful, grassroots-led housing justice movement.