A new health equity initiative challenges traditional definitions of leadership and builds on insights from healthcare stakeholders seeking collaborative systems change.
Worker Co-Ops in Health Care: Lessons from the Field
Across the country, a small but growing number of worker co-ops are offering pathways for building a healthier and more democratic healthcare sector.
Addressing Maternity Care Deserts: A Conversation with Dr. Elizabeth Cherot
As the March of Dimes prepares to release its annual report on the state of maternal care in this country, NPQ talks with Dr. Elizabeth Cherot on the growing problem of maternity care deserts.
What is Park Equity?
Green spaces are not a nice-to-have for neighborhoods; they’re essential community infrastructure. While building new parks and planting more trees are promising approaches, racial justice and equity depend on how we create and sustain these vital resources.
Understanding Farmworkers’ Agricultural Dust Exposure Risk
Dust exposure is impacting farmworkers, making conditions all the more hazardous. With these workers on the front line of risk and exposure, what is needed to protect them?
Keeping the Child at the Heart of the Circle: Supporting Native Child Welfare
This year, the Indian Child Welfare Act survived a US Supreme Court challenge. The law is important, but promoting Native child welfare requires more than compliance.
What If We Just Don’t Vibe?
What do you do with the people who AREN’T your people? In other words—what if we just don’t vibe, but we are a part of the same community? What then?
The Eldests: Stories of Economies
This is the essence of an Indigenous economy: relationship and community—not just human community—to function in balance….Indigenous economy is humbleness, frugalness, and it protects limits. The lessons in Indigenous storytelling, as in Indigenous economies, are clear, important, and practiced: the pauses, the silence, and the stillness are also part of the story; it is the dark stillness that precedes emergence.
¡Adelante! A Latinx Community Organizes to Generate Community Wealth
To support Latina business ownership effectively requires developing a holistic, peer-based approach that is centered on building community wealth.
Activists Call for Wealthy Tax-Exempt Nonprofits to Pay Their Fair Share
In cities across the country, activists and elected officials are trying to get wealthy, tax-exempt nonprofits to pay their fair share to the communities in which they reside.
Protecting Solidarity: Countering Attacks on Mutual Aid Funds
The recent arrest of three bail fund organizers in Atlanta reminds us that opposing the carceral state is not easy. But retreat is not an option.
Operationalizing Co-Leadership Structures: Lessons from the Nonprofit Intermediary Field
The two co-CEOs of ProInspire offer lessons from their transition to a co-leadership structure in 2020.