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“We Thrive: Health for Justice, Justice for Health”

January 18, 2022

NPQ‘s winter issue, “We Thrive: Health for Justice, Justice for Health” takes a first look at the emerging field of health justice.

Closing the Racial Wealth Divide—A Call for Strategic Thinking

By Gary Cunningham

January 12, 2022

More than 50 years after landmark Civil Rights legislation, the US racial wealth gap remains nearly as large as ever. To do better, we must rethink our strategic approach.

Impact Investing at 15—A Look at Three Field Perspectives

By Steve Dubb

January 12, 2022

The term “impact investing” was coined in 2007. Where is the field at today? And what are some key critical questions that remain unanswered?

Co-op Organizing in Dayton: Sustaining Movement for the Long Haul

By Lela Klein

January 12, 2022

How do you sustain a co-op campaign over 6 years? It requires a range of tactics include investing in people, celebrating wins, transparency, and consistency.

Recent features

The Road to Social Impact: Leveraging Community Power and Institutional Influence

Designing for Climate Justice: A Conversation with Dr. Dorceta E. Taylor

Toppling the Monument to Silence: Racism and the Founding Fathers of Environmental Organizations

LEADERSHIP

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Imagining Relational Infrastructures

How can culture support building relational infrastructures like transportation switches, community land trusts, and public kitchens? It takes a network of pilot projects to deliver on alternative infrastructure imaginaries.

ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY

HOUSING

How Residential Segregation Creates a Caste System in America

Though the era of segregation is largely perceived to be long gone, residence and geography maintain catastrophic levels of racial inequality in access to resources and opportunities.

RACE + POWER

PHILANTHROPY

BIPOC Nonprofit Leaders Deserve Better from Philanthropy

Philanthropy is on a course to underdeliver on its promises of promoting racial justice, held back by the institutionalized power dynamics that reinforce white privilege.