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The Next 4 Years: Tapping Into Nonprofit Expertise

The NonProfit Times

Just a side comment on general failings of the nonprofit sector. The next administration should appointment numerous nonprofit executives into cabinet positions. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jonathan T.M. Where did all the fervor go? What happened to the get out the vote cash spent by both sides?

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We Must Be Founders

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Historically, for example, Black public health leaders in Pittsburgh created Freedom House Ambulance Services after being neglected by police-staffed ambulances. The paramedic training and ambulance design standards pioneered in the Freedom House Ambulance Service helped set the national public health standard for emergency care.

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Shifting the Harmful Narratives and Practices of Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

The narrative roots of attaching work requirements to public benefits have been developing since the racist and sexist ideologies of slavery in the United States. That’s not career development. They are administratively efficient. They determine the extent to which we build empathy and who we see as deserving of support.

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The EPA Launches Final Strategy on Lead Mitigation

NonProfit Quarterly

One of the stated goals of that report was to “identify communities with high lead exposures and improve their health outcomes.” 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.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Image: “No Soul to Sell” by Yvonne Coleman Burney/ www.artbyycolemanburney.com Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.” 15 Exposing what they are doing, how they are doing it, and why they are doing it is crucial to the development of a winning campaign.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

The document has been widely described as a “ blueprint ” for a possible incoming Donald Trump administration. Of the 30 chapters, 25 have lead authors who held policy positions in the Trump administration. Of the 30 chapters, 25 have lead authors who held policy positions in the Trump administration. That is not quite accurate.