In the context of COVID-19 and the economic downturn, the government needs essential services to continue, and it needs to create jobs. Nonprofits can do both.
When Fragility Meets Rage
We may be taking emergence too far. People need structure to bring forth trauma in service of healing, not feeding a fragility/rage dynamic in which we all hate each other more at the end.
Forms as Theory of Change
NPQ Editor in Chief Cyndi Suarez invited Professor Caroline Levine to talk about the relationship between forms and civic infrastructure.
A New Business Model Emerges: Meet the Digital News Co-op
Local commercial media has been in decline for years, and communities have suffered. But there is a new business model in town: news co-ops that readers own.
Making Impact Investing Real: The Vital Role of Field Infrastructure
The field of impact investing has tremendous potential. But to realize that potential requires building an ecosystem that supports it.
An Idea Whose Time Has Come: The Right to a Job
Representative Ayanna Pressley introduces a bill that would meet a long-time demand of the civil rights activists for federally guaranteed employment.
Kim-Monique Johnson on Centering Equity in Human Resources
What human resources practices can we use on our paths to become explicitly anti-racist organizations? CRE’s Kim-Monique Johnson asks us to reconsider employee benefits using data on the inequities Black employees face.
Developing Human Capital: Moving from Extraction to Reciprocity in Our Organizational Relationships
Nonprofit human resource systems are built on systems of extraction rather than expansion. This guide shows how to respond while optimizing organizational strength.
Indigenous Mobilization Leads to Education Win in Minnesota
In Minnesota, Native educational activists seek to address inequities that have long harmed the state’s Indigenous communities.
Biden’s $4 Billion Central America Aid Plan to Stem Displacement Falls Short
The immigration bill President Biden introduced last month proposes $4 billion in aid for Central America over four years. What this aid will accomplish remains uncertain.
The Soil-Keeping Approach to Regenerative Justice: 7 Principles
Just societies cannot grow in toxic soil. To build regenerative communities, we should look to how life flourishes in the natural world, of which we are an inherent part.
Haaland’s Historic Nomination for Interior Secretary Advances
Deb Haaland’s journey to become the first Native American federal cabinet member has not been easy, but after US Senate hearings, odds for confirmation look good.