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The Next 4 Years: Tapping Into Nonprofit Expertise

The NonProfit Times

Team Rubicon is widely known for its innovation and unique culture. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jonathan T.M. She teams with and coordinates with other environmental nonprofits to use every law on the books to battle climate change and polluters. Following four years in the U.S. Cook, Ph.D.

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Community Development Must Center Power Building: A San Francisco Story

NonProfit Quarterly

Chinese American attorney Ed Lee (who later served as mayor from 2011 until his untimely death while in office in 2017), with the Asian Law Caucus, supported PYRIA leaders, like Chang Jok Lee, to organize the city’s largest sustained public housing rent strike in response to unsafe conditions that contributed to the murder of one of its residents.

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The City That Was in a Forest—Atlanta’s Disappeared Trees and Black People: A Conversation with Hugh “H. D.” Hunter

NonProfit Quarterly

Natives of the city have gone through false promises of positive urban development 4 —development that instead, in most cases, came at an unbearable cost. 48 With a third of the city’s general fund going to law enforcement rather than housing, it becomes clear where the city’s priorities lie.