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

NonProfit Quarterly

Many times, government and nonprofit representatives had come to Starleen’s Summit Lake neighborhood and indicated that things were going to improve, but not much ever came of it. “My In Akron, more than 20 public, nonprofit, and community groups came together to form the Civic Commons team. My first thought was, ‘Here we go.

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Lifting a Powerful Policy Lever for Housing Justice

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Tiffany Manuel & Dana Bourland What if government, the philanthropic sector, and community advocates could pull a policy lever and advance housing, climate, and racial justice all at once? Public comment ended in April 2023, and HUD will likely release the final rule sometime later this year. But we’re not there quite yet.

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We Must Be Founders

Stanford Social Innovation Review

To change peoples’ material reality, however, means rehauling the entire operating system of our democracy, not just tinkering with its policies. Historically, for example, Black public health leaders in Pittsburgh created Freedom House Ambulance Services after being neglected by police-staffed ambulances.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Image: “No Soul to Sell” by Yvonne Coleman Burney/ www.artbyycolemanburney.com Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.” Public employee pension funds in the United States have $5.99 Public employee pension funds in the United States have $5.99

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The Pitfalls of Personal Judgment

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Logan McDonnell As a nonprofit professional with over a decade of experience working in homelessness programs and currently working in homelessness prevention, I’ve often heard coworkers describe how a person in one of these programs reminded them of a close relative or friend. Invest in bias training for staff.

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How States Can Link Up to Support Human Rights

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Morgan Lane on iStock How can nonprofit leaders and movement activists effectively respond to Trump 2.0, The incoming Trump administration also aims to limit federal agency power regarding social welfare. Defending against police state weaponization is imperative. The Supreme Courts decision in Loper Bright v.

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Tenants Nationwide Call for Social Housing Now!

NonProfit Quarterly

In Washington, DC , dozens were arrested for calling for generous public funding for affordable housing at the office of Representative Steve Womack (R-AR), who chairs the US House subcommittee on housing appropriations. These campaigns are part of a growing grassroots movement that is coalescing behind the notion of social housing.