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Boston’s Fare-Free Bus Experiment

NonProfit Quarterly

Her campaign centered this policy as part of a comprehensive, municipal Green New Deal plan to bring sustainable jobs and much-needed climate and environmental justice to the City of Boston. Highway to Hell The existing US transportation system causes and perpetuates several social, economic, and environmental harms.

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Coleading as an Act of Rebellion

NonProfit Quarterly

I can bring in my upbringing, cultural experiences, and everyday lived experiences as a Black woman when I am working to organize Black women around poverty, economic issues, maternal health, and working with Black women from different backgrounds.

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Recentering Philanthropy toward Social Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

And they’re not looking for a nonprofit grantmaking vehicle; they’re looking for ways to invest in, say, businesses that will sustain not only their immediate family but an entire community, because of threats that their families are facing—whether political threats or climate or economic issues. And so, that’s an example.

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Capitalism, the Insecurity Machine: A Conversation with Astra Taylor

NonProfit Quarterly

RR: The book is based on your discovery that everyone’s “economic issues are also emotional ones.” The intervention someone like Elon Musk needs is an entirely different economic arrangement. He needs to be dispossessed not just for society’s benefit but for his own mental health and wellbeing.