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Making Policy Work for Rural Communities: The Value of Community Voice

NonProfit Quarterly

This article is the second in the series Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. Public funding programs often include conditions that exceed the capabilities of high-poverty areas, such as requiring matching funds that these areas do not have. A different approach that centers community voice is sorely needed.

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Building a City of the Future by Restoring Its Past: A Story from Black Memphis

NonProfit Quarterly

The interview that follows explores the history of the Clayborn Temple, the project to restore it, and the vision of Troutman and her colleagues to use the temple as a hub for developing a community-based economy in Memphis that i s Black-owned, Black-governed, and which sustains a thriving culture rooted in the Black imagination.

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How to Eliminate the Myth of Meritocracy and Build the World We Deserve

NonProfit Quarterly

The false belief that a person can leverage hard work and talent to pull themselves and their family out of poverty should they only try is a pervasive story that has shaped our culture and laws. Nowhere is this more evident than in the construction and decimation of the social safety net.

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Social Housing: How a New Generation of Activists Are Reinventing Housing

NonProfit Quarterly

And while Karl Marx-Hof is a mandatory stop, what is actually more interesting is the broader system of social housing it exemplifies, which includes public housing, limited equity cooperatives, public developers, inclusive urban and environmental planning, excellent public transit, and extensive regulation and taxation of the private market.

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Your Tennessee Legislative Recap for 2023

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

Learn more about how the 2023 legislative session impacts Nonprofits and the Tennesseans they support The first session of the 113th Tennessee General Assembly adjourned on Friday, April 21st. The legislature passed a $56.2 billion budget which is the same as this current fiscal year. 20 million to support crisis pregnancy non-profits.

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Your Tennessee Legislative Recap for 2023

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

Learn more about how the 2023 legislative session impacts Nonprofits and the Tennesseans they support The first session of the 113th Tennessee General Assembly adjourned on Friday, April 21st. The legislature passed a $56.2 billion budget which is the same as this current fiscal year. 20 million to support crisis pregnancy non-profits.

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How to Power Good Union Jobs in the Clean Energy Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

And a large portion of these dollars were disbursed before the new administration of Donald Trump took office. wage floor, affordable housing on the development site, and a pipeline to construction careers for people with barriers to employment. According to the Labor Energy Partnership , the IRA alone could add nearly 1.5

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