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Nonprofits as Battlegrounds for Democracy

NonProfit Quarterly

6 The term “nonprofit neighborhoods” refers to “places where neighborhood based nonprofit organizations controlled access to the levers of political, economic, and social power and mediated the local manifestation of the state and the market.” And over time, private foundations emerged and issued grants in a similar way.

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Capitalism, the Insecurity Machine: A Conversation with Astra Taylor

NonProfit Quarterly

First, there is existential insecurity, a fact of human experience, a kind of beautiful insecurity that comes with being a vulnerable being, an entity that can be wounded physically or psychologically, that is aware of its mortality. We treat the rest of life on this planet as a set of products or objects that don’t have rights.

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A Fair Shot for Every Child: The Nuts and Bolts of Baby Bonds

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Getty Images For Unsplash+ This article is the second in a three-part series Building Wealth for the Next Generation: The Promise of Baby Bonds a co-production of NPQ and the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at The New School for Social Research in New York City.