Community benefit agreements create enforceable commitments on labor standards, local hiring, and environmental issues remediation, shifting economic development from a zero-sum conflict into a genuine negotiation.
What is movement lawyering? Why is this work imperative? As the US approaches 250 years since the signing of the Declaration for Independence, Law for Black Lives answers these questions and names the ways in which the law has been used to restrict progress towards extending the design of independence for everyone. Here, they outline a vision for immediate action.
A letter of gratitude for pathbreaking fundraisers Kim Klein and Stephanie Roth.
Fundraising has always been a core pillar of American democracy, and Kim Klein and Stephanie Roth embody that legacy.
Grassroots community coalitions are generating outsized impact and demonstrating that the highest leverage frequently comes from small investments placed at precisely the right moments. These insights and success stories serve as a model that philanthropy cannot ignore.
Activist and lawyer Flavia Agnes tells us why securing women’s rights today seems much harder than it was in the ‘80s and argues that legislative reform is a battle half won without litigation support.
A benchmark study looks at the challenges conservation agriculture faces through the lens of funders and implementors to understand how to streamline funding and support to reach farmers and ranchers interested in conservation farming methods.
Deb Haaland and Sharice Davids stand in a long line of Indigenous women who have served a country that has historically excluded them. They’re now pushing it to realize its promise.
If you can’t tell your board chair where the money is in June, you’re not behind on fundraising—you’re behind on clarity. In this installment of Ask Rhea, she walks through how to diagnose your financial pipeline leaks before you’re running out of runway.
In a new memoir, the legal expert shares how her experiences as a Black woman gave rise to frameworks the far-right has tried to weaponize.
For too long, the United States has treated poverty as a problem to manage rather than a system to redesign. Here are ways the nonprofit sector can lean in to support economic mobility for families—particularly single mothers and their children. This shift is essential to our collective wellbeing.
They are taking on debt, cutting back on personal medical care, delaying rent payments and skipping meals so their kids can eat. Federal cuts are poised to make things worse.