In this video clip, Lorena Andrade of La Mujer Obrera in El Paso, Texas calls on nonprofits and philanthropy to heed the rhythms and intricacies of community building.
Building Community with the Long Haul in Mind
Why Ongoing Power Building Matters and How Every Nonprofit Can Do It
An urgent message for the leaders of nonprofit social service organizations: Get your clients involved in organizing and voting in their best interests.
The State of Race and Power
These leaders overwhelmingly want space to imagine. They want to center the needs and desires of people of color in this work.
To End Food Apartheid, Nonprofits Invest in BIPOC Leadership
COVID-19 made pre-existing food access disparities obvious. A growing number of food justice groups are investing in BIPOC leaders to hasten an end to food apartheid.
How Rural Electric Cooperatives Can Support a Green New Deal
US rural electric co-ops were once vital agents of change, and today provide power for 42 million people. Might their progressive spirit be unleashed once again?
Gaming the System: How 51 Corporations Boosted CEO Pay amid COVID-19
Federal filings from 100 corporations reveal that more than half altered their pay formulas to increase CEO compensation during the pandemic.
Power and Consent: Reconsidering Oral History
Alyce Sadongei, co-director of the Doris Duke Native Oral History Revitalization Project, critiques and celebrates a project to return oral histories to tribes.
The Foundational Economy: A Message to Economic Developers
What would communities look like if the economic development industry treated local firms with the same care they provide to large corporations?
Reader Response: Get Rid of GDP
Last week, we asked readers to respond to the prompt, “What economics term would you get rid of, and why?” Here is our favorite reply.
Fed Chair Outlines Economic Challenges at Community Development Conference
Speaking to an annual conference of community advocates, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell outlines the scope and scale of the economic rebuilding challenge.
Unpacking Biden’s Family Plan: What It Means for Child Poverty Reduction
A week ago, the Biden administration released its American Families Plan. The plan’s tax credit provisions could reduce childhood poverty through 2025 by over 40 percent.
NPQ’s Spring 2021 Issue, “Radical Leadership – Visioning Lines of Flight.”
It’s time to recognize magical thinking as a liberatory leadership style. This edition of the Nonprofit Quarterly magazine explores where we are going vis-à-vis race and power—the edge, in terms of articulating vision, building for a transformative civic infrastructure, and creating new lines of flight.