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The Next 4 Years: Tapping Into Nonprofit Expertise

The NonProfit Times

Secretary of Homeland Security Jacob Wood Co-Founder & Executive Board Chairman Team Rubicon Team Rubicon became one of the most impactful nonprofits under Wood’s leadership. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jonathan T.M. Here are a few suggestions. She has the roadmap for the nation’s clean energy future.

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From Policy to Power: Centering People by Supporting Tenant Unions

NonProfit Quarterly

This could mean a slumlord of one building, or a private equity firm that owns multiple buildings in one city, or even Project-Based Section 8 buildings, under the control of HUD (the US Department of Housing and Urban Development). A tenant union can be neighborhood- or citywide, across multiple landlords.

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Community Development Must Center Power Building: A San Francisco Story

NonProfit Quarterly

Chinese American attorney Ed Lee (who later served as mayor from 2011 until his untimely death while in office in 2017), with the Asian Law Caucus, supported PYRIA leaders, like Chang Jok Lee, to organize the city’s largest sustained public housing rent strike in response to unsafe conditions that contributed to the murder of one of its residents.

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The City That Was in a Forest—Atlanta’s Disappeared Trees and Black People: A Conversation with Hugh “H. D.” Hunter

NonProfit Quarterly

Natives of the city have gone through false promises of positive urban development 4 —development that instead, in most cases, came at an unbearable cost. 48 With a third of the city’s general fund going to law enforcement rather than housing, it becomes clear where the city’s priorities lie. We have so much to learn.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Published by the Heritage Foundation and formally titled Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise , the nearly 900-page document, divided into 30 chapters, offers a host of right-wing policy recommendations. Two things are true: 1) A lot of what is written will never make it into law, and 2) too much of it may well.