NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2024

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. In 1996, when the law was enacted, 68 percent of families with children living in poverty received welfare; in 2019, it was 19.5

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NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Cliff Rosenthal was the executive director of the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions (now called Inclusiv ) from 1983 until 2012. While at the federation, Rosenthal helped lead a coalition that created the CDFI ( community development finance institution ) Fund. But nonprofit loan funds dominated.

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NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Image: “One Sided” by Yvonne Coleman Burney/ www.artbyycolemanburney.com Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.” We should be regulating corporate capture; instead, our government has enabled it. H ow do we confront corporate capture in our work?

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NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 26, 2024

If policymakers, advocates, and philanthropists wish to reduce Black poverty, they should be dedicating more resources to job creation. Although more than half of Black-White income inequality is due to insufficient work, is the US government devoting a proportionate share of antipoverty resources to job creation? Clearly not.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2023

On its website, ILSR maintains a set of maps showing the overlay of poverty and store location in multiple metropolitan areas. As Smith observes in a related study , “health conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, and obesity are strongly linked to poverty and reliance on cheap, low-quality food.” DeKalb County is not unique.

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Mississippi has a rich culture, but for generations, its Black communities have experienced health inequities intertwined with discrimination, poverty, and racial exclusion. Although farmland is abundant in the region, the number of Black-owned family farms has dwindled.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

For the last few years, there have been major clashes between Mississippi’s state government and its majority-Black capital city. Yet, despite the mayor’s efforts to create a path for continued city governance, his pleas have gone unheard.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

My whole trajectory through the nonprofit sector and analysis of race and power comes from working with those organizations and having the reality of that work hit up against the visions for liberation that I had. There was a lot of administrative work, but then I also got to sit in on some of the meetings. I kept thinking, yes!

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The harms that Black women face in our housing market are the result of decisions made by the government and real estate industry to segregate housing markets, setting the stage for corporations to profit off Black women’s pain. Without understanding the decisions that got us here, we cannot build a housing system that is just and equitable.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 6, 2023

Some point to large-scale, government-run rental housing, while others also explicitly include housing cooperatives and community land trusts. But in the end, governments dragged their feet and promised change stayed on the drawing board. But that hasn’t stopped movements from pushing.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 7, 2023

Image Credit: edgeeffectmedia.com on unsplash.com Leah Rothstein has been a consultant to nonprofit housing developers, local government, and private firms. That is, according to this myth, segregation wasn’t due to government policies and laws, but due to private action, personal choice, or accidental circumstance.

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NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 13, 2023

Fifty percent of its residents were born outside of the US and identify as Latino/a ; about half of all families in the neighborhood live below the official poverty line. We also need our government agencies to protect us. East Boston is a historically working-class, immigrant neighborhood.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 16, 2024

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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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 15, 2023

This is the second article from A Green New Deal on the Ground , a series produced with the Climate and Community Project, a progressive climate policy think tank developing cutting-edge research at the climate and inequality nexus. Such reforms are already underway. Communities in New York are already moving toward this goal.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 16, 2023

The federal government officially ended the public health emergency on May 11, 2023. Addressing Ableism in Policy Development In the early days of 2020, the federal government’s response to the pandemic included announcing a public health emergency. He writes, We are not a monolith. We need intersectional solutions. “It

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 5, 2024

DB: A big premise of my work at JPB Foundation is that no matter what issue you care about—whether that be housing, healthcare, poverty, or climate justice, and they are all important—the fundamental issue at the root of all of them is who has power in society and who doesn’t. That’s a key area of interest and development for us.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 5, 2024

The UN Disability and Development Report 2018 reveals that individuals with disabilities face fundamental challenges in nearly all aspects of life, including employment, health care, and education. Disability, poverty, and discrimination are part of a cycle where each reinforces the others.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 13, 2023

But the key difference is that they represent very different socio-economic energy development models and very different impacts on our communities and living ecosystems. This is an administrative process without any accountability except to the governor.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 20, 2023

Even small amounts of lead can lead to severe adverse health effects in children , including issues with learning, brain and nervous system development, hearing and speech, and arrested growth. Exposure to lead during pregnancy can lead to developmental or behavioral problems in children later on.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 2, 2023

This article is, with publisher permission, adapted from a more extensive journal article, “ A Tax Credit Proposal for Profit Moderation and Social Mission Maximization in Long-Term Residential Care Businesses ” published last year by Nonprofit Policy Forum. ESOPs also provide workers with important governance rights.

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Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JUNE 5, 2023

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. Prohibits a local government from imposing a wage or employment benefit mandate unless required by state or federal law.

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NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Image: “Through the Fire” by Yvonne Coleman Burney/ www.artbyycolemanburney.com Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.” And those machines are being sold to city governments for millions of dollars, even though their accuracy rate is less than 10 percent.

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Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JUNE 5, 2023

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. Prohibits a local government from imposing a wage or employment benefit mandate unless required by state or federal law.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

“RULER OF THE EARTH” BY YUET-LAM TSANG Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” How do social movements come to make the language of economic systems change their own? Nonprofits often play quasi-governmental roles.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

That said, it remains unclear how aggressive the South African government will be in response to the recent attacks from Trump. Foreign Aid and Trumps Racist Politics Trumps actions targeting South Africa are set against a backdrop of racist rhetoric and disinformation promoted by his administration. The new law is hardly confiscatory.

Health 107

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 10, 2025

Image credit: Dall-E by OpenAI Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? This concept is becoming increasingly significant as policymakers develop data ethics frameworks that prioritize transparency, fairness, and accountability.

Race and Ethnicity 70

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NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The Origins of EMTALA Enacted during the Reagan administration in 1986, EMTALA mandates that hospitals receiving Medicare funding provide emergency services to all patients who arrive at their facilities. However, the law’s authority is contested.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Within a hospital system, medical providers are responsible for the delivery of care, while other departments steward the physical plant, and administrative departments are responsible for the bottom line. We often hear the sentiment, “I already work on poverty (or climate or health disparities, etc.) This is useful, even necessary.

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NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

But child care is more expensive than ever, and the federal government hasn’t done enough to support families, especially working mothers. The federal government must act quickly to preserve and increase funding for child care. Now more than ever, families bear the brunt of the economic burden.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

­­ A 1983 US government study documenting the placement of hazardous waste landfills in low-income and Black communities was one of the first studies to highlight the intersection of environmental issues and racial inequity. New commercial and development opportunities need to reach the communities most impacted by climate change.

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Energy Finance Environmental Food 111

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 21, 2022

RR: How did the partnerships behind the podcast develop, and how did those partnerships inform the podcast’s objectives? We’ll pull out the money that we promised to create some infrastructure, onramps and offramps to highways, the kinds of things that local governments do to entice new investment.”

Health 110

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Posters at the conference highlighted that the first OFN conference in 1985 attracted 21 community development loan funds with a combined $27 million in assets under management. By contrast, according to the US SIF (Sustainable Investment Forum), the CDFI industry (including community development banks and credit unions) had $457.9

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NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 25, 2023

Image Credit: Emmanuel Ikwuegbu on unsplash.com This is the fourth article from A Green New Deal on the Ground , a series produced with Climate and Community Project, a progressive climate policy think tank developing cutting-edge research at the climate and inequality nexus. It notes that many homes are passed on between family members.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 86

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The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Eligible applicants include State Service Commissions, nonprofit organizations, institutions of higher education, local governments, and Native Nations. The post AmeriCorps’ Grant Competition Focuses On Quality Of Life appeared first on The NonProfit Times. Smith, CEO, AmeriCorps, said via a statement. “The

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The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Eligible applicants include State Service Commissions, nonprofit organizations, institutions of higher education, local governments, and Native Nations. The post AmeriCorps Opens Federal Grants Competition appeared first on The NonProfit Times.

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NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 29, 2024

From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world. It has been really beautiful to watch this local community develop a choir. That’s a mirage.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Much of this struggle takes place outside government, but the role of the state is important. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Democracy (OECD)—a group of 41 relatively wealthy nations, including the United States—in 2019, US government spending (federal, state, and local) equaled 38.1 Long-term care.

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