Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JULY 8, 2023

Sherry Rout, our new Director of Government Relations and Public Policy, will be a key player in mobilizing nonprofits across the state We’re excited to welcome Sherry Rout, our new Director of Government Relations and Public Policy!

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NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

When Johns was injured, she recalls, “Our partners we met through Intersectional Fridays were the ones who got the medic pack and pressed it on Jacob’s body while we waited for paramedics to come. We engage in community organizing to understand how laws impact everyone,” said Tiffany Roberts, public policy director at SCHR. “We

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Tyler, Chief Health Officer at RHIA Ventures, took participants through an analysis of the healthcare harms that Black women have experienced over the centuries, from medical experimentation on enslaved women to forced sterilization.

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Momentum Nonprofit Partners

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Monitor Legislation that Impacts Your Nonprofit and the Communities you serve Nonprofits must be legislative watchdogs for three key reasons: Impact awareness: New laws affect funding, operations, and beneficiary eligibility. Staying informed prevents blindsided disruptions. Want to take action on a bill below? Find your legislators here.

Education 52

Education Education Public and Social Policy Law 52

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

This includes strategies of community organizing, public policy and advocacy, civic engagement, cultural/arts organizing, land/food sovereignty, healing justice, and more. Mair, and Derek Angus, “Applying Syndemic Theory to Acute Illness,” Journal of the American Medical Association 327, no. Rudd, Christina F.

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NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Worker-owned co-ops and benefit corporations are additional public policy frameworks for a just economy. The current market economy fails to effectively distribute goods and services to large segments of the population, resulting in poverty and maldistribution of food, clothing, shelter, medical care, and education.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

As journalist Alissa Quart has documented , these obstacles are less a “bug” than a feature: The system is designed to accentuate shame and discourage people from applying for benefits to which they are by law entitled. It is time for guaranteed income to become public policy across the United States.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2024

But the corporate form, per se, is not the problem—the corporation is just a creature of law that limits individual liability. Law professor and activist Dean Spade has noted that the students he teaches often seek to be “nonprofit executive directors” even as they lack a clear idea of what they want to do. Emily Kawano et al.,

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 1, 2022

As the executive director of the East Bay Community Law Center, Zoe Polk, wrote recently for NPQ about the PSLF program , “Legal aid attorneys like me work to ensure that millions of low-income people of color stay in their homes, are paid fair compensation, expunge faulty criminal records, and access immigration relief.

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