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Bridging for Environmental Justice across Space and Time: Cambodia and the US South

NonProfit Quarterly

6 And it got me thinking about how the construction of this dam reflects a broad and long pattern of environmental injustice globally. Since the dam’s construction and operation, the holdouts have faced pressures from the dam company, which has offered them inadequate compensation and the threat of law enforcement.

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Okinawa and the Link Between Socioeconomic Disparities and Colonialism in Japan

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Importantly, the Battle of Okinawa devastated Okinawa's railways; post-war road constructions primarily served US military interests; and much agricultural land, the primary source of industry in Okinawa, was seized for the construction of military facilities. Relocation of the bases has also remained out of reach.

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How The AI Revolution Changes Your Search Engine Strategy

The NonProfit Times

And if your instincts say that these efforts to make clicks rarer will also make them more expensive, trust your instincts (and the law of supply and demand.) You need to maintain this oversight because, as generative AI increasingly constructs our reality, we must construct its reality. Whats a nonprofit marketer to do?

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How to Help People of Color Become Homeowners: Data from Philadelphia

NonProfit Quarterly

In Philadelphia , there are expensive historic districts, clusters of new luxury construction, walkable rowhouse neighborhoods, and areas that are indistinguishable from the nearby suburbs in look and price. Updated every few years, this analysis has documented change in the city for more than two decades.

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Director of Policy and Advocacy

Anedot

In accordance with state and county law: convictions do not necessarily rule out employment, it depends on the nature and severity of the conviction and is evaluated on a case by case basis, check is conducted on last 7 years only.) Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Google Suite, and virtual meeting platforms. Work on heights required.

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Policies for Housing With Heart

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Known as granny flats, garden units, in-law apartments, mother-daughter units, and dawdy houses amongst the Amish, ADUs provide a separate living space to a home for grandparents or other relatives, often over a garage, in a backyard or in an occupiable basement. But that, too, is changing.

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Tenant Organizers Are Fighting a Forever War

NonProfit Quarterly

You all may have heard on the news—there was an HB 2127 rule, nicknamed the “Death Star Bill,” which preemptively took away [power from] localities [so they] couldn’t make laws like [the one we worked on]. It was on the news a lot because one of the things that it impacted was rest breaks for construction workers.