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US prisons have been replacing in-person visits to inmates with video chats run by for-profit companies that exploit families desperate to connect with their loved ones. In response, families have vowed to boycott the video service.
June 11, 2018; New York Times and Washington Post
In January 2018, NPQ published an article suggesting that nonprofits brace for another attack on voting rights. The gist of that article was the case being heard by the Supreme Court about Ohio’s efforts to purge its voter rolls of people who had not voted in two federal election cycles and not returned a mailed notification that asks them to verify their address. Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 in favor of Ohio. What was once a warning has become much more than that; now, nonprofits need to think about how they will work on voter registration, a longstanding nonpartisan way to prod constituents to exercise their rights. With this decision, registering people to vote is no longer enough; nonprofits must ensure that people who are registered maintain that right.
Food incubators are proving to be a promising approach for helping refugee and immigrant populations achieve economic independence and social integration.
In San Francisco, a city with a runaway housing market and a nationally recognized library system, a member of the city’s board of supervisors asks if the library can partner with developers to address a severe affordable housing shortage.
In the time of #MeToo, Michigan State University president Lou Anna K. Simon was determined to stay in her position, despite calls for her resignation from Dr. Larry Nassar’s victims and others.
Renters’ rights campaigns across the country are organizing for short-term alleviation and long-term alternatives.
Puerto Rico’s community land trusts are helping residents protect homeownership rights in their communities against encroachment by developers and local governments. As the island rebuilds after Hurricane Maria, recognition of community ownership is key to getting aid to residents.
Six decades after Brown v. Board of Education, North Carolina moves to re-segregate its schools.
Banking has changed in the 40 years since the CRA was enacted, and so has the ways communities and banks interact. To preserve the CRA’s goals, maybe it’s time to reframe the law.
In Minneapolis and St. Paul, Nexus, a funding intermediary, was attracted to the idea of “community wealth building”—that is, using common ownership of land and business to build wealth. But Nexus decided that the approach could only be effective if grounded in the cultures of the communities it serves.
