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The Next 4 Years: Tapping Into Nonprofit Expertise

The NonProfit Times

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jonathan T.M. Secretary of Education Janet Murguía President and CEO UnidosUS Murguía was executive vice chancellor for university relations at the University of Kansas, where she oversaw KU’s internal and external relations with the public. Department of the Treasury.

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Whose Capital? Our Capital! The Power of Workers’ Pensions for the Common Good

NonProfit Quarterly

Or consider if the retirement money of our prestigious public universities and their medical centers, where cleaners, cafeteria staff, and medical assistants care for students and patients, was invested in one of the largest corporate landlords in the country, and this landlord doubled their rent or evicted their families. Our Capital!

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When It Comes to Promoting Prosperity, Production Beats Consumption

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Between 2016 and 2019 , nearly half of global giving by US foundations went to health, while environment and human rights accounted for roughly 11 percent each, followed by agriculture and education. Various others work in the space in between, like Charter Cities Institute on urban development and economic clusters.

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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. The president of Emory University, Gregory Fenves, sits on the Atlanta Committee for Progress. Gentrification,” accessed August 11, 2023, education.

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“Educational Purposes”: Nonprofit Land as a Vital Site of Struggle

NonProfit Quarterly

I found myself in the middle of a David and Goliath struggle between the citizens of the town and its biggest economic powerhouse: Yale University. 2 While immersed in organizing, this powerful coalition of residents, university wage-workers, city alders, and students were also reading. 1 That city was New Haven, Connecticut.

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Read, Listen, Learn: 13 Great Books by Women Authors for Women’s History Month

Fundraising Leadership

With days to go in Womens History Month, the theme Moving Forward Together, celebrating "Women Educating and Inspiring Generations" fits perfectly with Take The Leads suggested list of books by women authors writing about history. I read to anchor myself to something larger and more meaningful, to a universe I could trust.

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