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Containing Gentrification: A Story from the Nation’s Capital
The nation’s capital has gentrified over the past 20 years. A new transit project could accelerate this. But Black and Latinx businesses are organizing to protect themselves.
“Educational Purposes”: Nonprofit Land as a Vital Site of Struggle
This story, about the monetization of nonprofit land and the mounting demands for community control, offers us a critical touchstone for grasping some conditions of precarity; but it also points the way to forging a different path in the world—one beyond today’s late capitalism.
What Does It Mean to Dismantle Racial Capitalism Anyway?
We are motivated to run the campaigns that we do because we want to live in a world where Black people and people of color can thrive. To us, this looks like improved access to healthcare, housing, and education. It looks like building not just individual, but community wealth. We know a better world is possible.
Passion Doesn’t Pay the Rent: Why the Arts Must Embrace Pay Equity
To build the arts and cultural sector that our communities need, pay equity is a must. A recent survey led by eight local arts organizations offers some guidance.
Management Challenges: Early Lessons in Advancing Pay Equity and Wellness Globally
Pay equity at an international nonprofit organization is complicated. While remote work makes international operations easier, it also creates new complexities.
What Would a Gift Economy Approach to Running a Nonprofit Look Like?
To advance nonprofit practice, there is much to be learned from taking the notion of a gift economy seriously—and integrating its ethos in the treatment of volunteers.
Exposed and at Risk: New Report Shows Farms Do Little to Protect Workers from Harm
A new report finds farmworkers are vulnerable to pesticide exposure, and the systems designed to protect them are failing.
How the Child Tax Credit Empowered Low-Income Parents
What difference do monthly child tax credit payments make? The 2021 measure enabled people to buy food, reduce debts, and end unwanted cohabitation.
The EPA Launches Final Strategy on Lead Mitigation
With new sessions on lead awareness, the EPA hopes to make at-risk communities more aware of the dangers of lead and what to do about the poison potentially lurking in or around one’s home.
Climate Justice for Generation Alpha
For young children, nature-based learning environments can be the key to establishing environmental stewardship.
The Climate Funders Justice Pledge Holds Philanthropy Accountable
The Donors of Color Network is working to get funders to increase their funding to BIPOC-led organizations working toward climate justice.