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The Next 4 Years: Tapping Into Nonprofit Expertise

The NonProfit Times

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jonathan T.M. She teams with and coordinates with other environmental nonprofits to use every law on the books to battle climate change and polluters. Rutzen was legal advisor in the Czechoslovak Parliament where he helped draft the country’s nonprofit laws. Cook, Ph.D.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Or consider if the retirement money of our prestigious public universities and their medical centers, where cleaners, cafeteria staff, and medical assistants care for students and patients, was invested in one of the largest corporate landlords in the country, and this landlord doubled their rent or evicted their families.

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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. The president of Emory University, Gregory Fenves, sits on the Atlanta Committee for Progress.

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“Educational Purposes”: Nonprofit Land as a Vital Site of Struggle

NonProfit Quarterly

I found myself in the middle of a David and Goliath struggle between the citizens of the town and its biggest economic powerhouse: Yale University. 2 While immersed in organizing, this powerful coalition of residents, university wage-workers, city alders, and students were also reading. 1 That city was New Haven, Connecticut.