NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Boards are notorious for expending tremendous amounts of time, energy, and resources of nonprofit leaders who are already stretched thin by the demands of the job. According to anti-oppression practitioners Both / And , The NPIC shifts the focus to service delivery and away from root causes, such as poverty, racism, and exploitation.

Nonprofit governance and management 68

Nonprofit governance and management Governance Public and Nonprofit Management Non-Profits 68

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 8, 2023

The group leading the effort is SAGE Development Authority , a public power authority owned by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, which gained international recognition for its leadership in the non-violent protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline. “For our people and me, this project is a prayer,” says Joseph McNeil, Jr.,

Leadership 122

Leadership Culture Poverty Public and Social Policy 122

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

When we don't have the means to process the impact of the experience, our autonomic nervous system fragments off the related energy and information from our awareness, but we hold it unconsciously in our body and mind until we heal from it. But what does systemic trauma actually look like? How can we recognize it when we experience it?

Public and Social Policy 140

Public and Social Policy Health Activism Culture 140

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Very few leaders entered this work in order to build a professional career, but many of us have reluctantly or even unconsciously channeled our energies into surviving the nonprofit and philanthropic industrial complex as an end in itself. How do we stand in our power in terms of what we need and deserve for our lives and our communities?

Leadership 111

Leadership Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Culture 111

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

Can this movement energy coalesce into a cohesive vision? 4 We see, too, movement energy in the organizing at Amazon, at the over 200 Starbucks branches that have unionized, in the new vigor behind the pursuit of worker cooperatives and community land trusts. Can this movement energy coalesce into a cohesive vision?

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 98

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Meanwhile, youth activists and organizers continue to be outspoken, recognizing that the climate crisis continues to worsen, exacerbated by such concurring injustices as poverty and wealth inequality, authoritarianism, and genocide. 15 Philanthropy has added fuel to the fire that is saviorism disguised as progress.

Philanthropy 98

Philanthropy Environmental Agriculture Nonprofit governance and management 98

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 15, 2023

By the end of it, I was asking myself: “Why do people think poverty is their fault? SD: In Bootstrapped, you describe key aspects of the nation’s social support system—or non-system, as the case may be—as a “dystopian social safety net.” Alissa Quart: Definitely, it builds on Squeezed. What led you to come up with that term?

Public and Social Policy 116

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Volunteerism Volunteerism 116