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The Next 4 Years: Tapping Into Nonprofit Expertise

The NonProfit Times

Secretary of Health and Human Service Nancy Brown Chief Executive Officer American Heart Association Under Brown’s leadership as CEO since 2008, the AHA has become a global authority on cardiovascular and brain health as well as overall well-being. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jonathan T.M. Cook, Ph.D.

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We Must Be Founders

Stanford Social Innovation Review

We need to reimagine our laws, regulations, customs, and institutions. Historically, for example, Black public health leaders in Pittsburgh created Freedom House Ambulance Services after being neglected by police-staffed ambulances. We need to be much more aspirational and long-term in our thinking. It won’t be easy.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Climate change is a major threat to public budgets, 8 which impacts public pensions; and the pension funds themselves have noted that climate change is one of the greatest risks to the health and stability of their portfolios—if not the number-one risk. A Reply to Critics,” Harvard Business Law Review 12, no. Webber and Michael A.

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How Mobile Home Owners Organize for Land Ownership and Climate Resiliency

NonProfit Quarterly

Instead, contemporary manufactured homes are regulated under a strict code from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). When it comes to evictions, “residents have few protections under a patchwork of state laws.” And the average construction cost of a manufactured home is just $90,000.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Hedge Funds That Conduct Classes Today, universities turn their research into lucrative commercial goods and patents in a range of fields, from the pharmaceutical industries and software products to health services and military defense weaponry. Given my work, it specifically focuses on university-driven urban development.

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Project 2025: What Does It Mean for Racial and Economic Justice?

NonProfit Quarterly

One other matter: Head Start, a pre-kindergarten program that enrolls over 850,000 children a year , is housed in the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS). Housing: The Project 2025 chapter on housing is authored by a familiar name, none other than the former US Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson.