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The New Problem-Solving Skills That All Cities Need

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By James Anderson Here’s a new axiom fit for the 21st century: The greater the global challenge, the more likely it is to fall to local governments to fix. Local governments are left bearing the brunt and have, understandably, so far struggled. Or take the ongoing global migration wave.

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Safety in Solidarity: How to Safeguard Movement Groups and Members

NonProfit Quarterly

Participants came from diverse organizations, including homeless shelters and a queer youth summer camp. In the six months following the training, staff at a participating homeless shelter have not handed anyone over to the police—a testament to the program’s success. We are used to fighting in the South.

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Homeless, Then Shot by Federal Police

NonProfit Quarterly

Despite multiple warnings, fines, and legal notices directing them to leave, they had stayed because they were otherwise homeless. A Broader Crisis: Criminalizing Homelessness Homelessness is, of course, a national problem with broad scope.

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” W hat would a nonprofit sector that pursued economic justice look like? The other five work for nonprofit intermediary organizations. Two of them—Dr.

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Excessive Wealth Has Run Amok—This Must Stop

NonProfit Quarterly

It’s time to change public policy to do away with excessive wealth and its corrosive effects on our lives, our society, and our democracy. Why Excessive Wealth Matters Academics and nonprofit activists have long talked about income inequality—and, more recently, have begun to address the more significant issue of wealth inequality.