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Nonprofits as Battlegrounds for Democracy

NonProfit Quarterly

Johnson’s War on Poverty, which “expanded individual benefits related to health, education, and welfare and doubled down on the idea of working with nonprofit organizations.” The vehicle for the development of nonprofit infrastructure was government grants, beginning with President Lyndon B.

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Recognizing the Full Spectrum of Black Women’s Views on Homeownership Is Key to Progress

NonProfit Quarterly

PNW Production on pexels.com. Black women hold diverse and nuanced socioeconomic and political identities, and as such, our policies targeting racial and gender inequality must be flexible and adaptable. This is a core tenet of racially just policies and programs.

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How to Restore the Care in Long-Term Nursing Care

NonProfit Quarterly

This means that investors put their money behind businesses trying to provide quality products or services and address societal problems. percent increase in sales, employment, and productivity growth relative to what otherwise would have been expected (Hricko and Starr 2014). Journal of European Social Policy 22 (4): 377–91.

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Capitalism, the Insecurity Machine: A Conversation with Astra Taylor

NonProfit Quarterly

He needs to be dispossessed not just for society’s benefit but for his own mental health and wellbeing. We treat the rest of life on this planet as a set of products or objects that don’t have rights. How can recognizing shared insecurity spur social change and create a strategy to redefine security?

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A Fair Shot for Every Child: The Nuts and Bolts of Baby Bonds

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Getty Images For Unsplash+ This article is the second in a three-part series Building Wealth for the Next Generation: The Promise of Baby Bonds a co-production of NPQ and the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at The New School for Social Research in New York City.