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??How Community-Based Public Space Can Build Civic Trust: Lessons from Akron

NonProfit Quarterly

That changed when a team from Reimagining the Civic Commons decided to reinvigorate public spaces in Akron’s systemically disinvested neighborhoods, including Summit Lake. Moving at the Speed of Trust Employing deep listening, engaging in meetings, and building one-on-one relationships with neighbors…helped inform public space design.

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The Pitfalls of Personal Judgment

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Yet it can also create space for bias: familiarity can be derived from a variety of factors—the words someone uses, their background, conjugation, or even eye color—but it’s often connected to culture, ethnicity, and/or traditional access to social capital. Invest in bias training for staff.

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Countering Criminalization: The Vital Role of Organizing Against Homelessness

NonProfit Quarterly

Theoharis is the executive director of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights and Social Justice , which found that roughly 140 million or 43.3 During the Gilded Age, in the late 1800s, homelessness was widespread in urban communities, and vagrancy laws made loitering, being poor, looking suspicious, wandering around, or being drunk a crime.

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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. Of the 30 chapters, 25 have lead authors who held policy positions in the Trump administration.