Mercy Ships delivers life-saving surgeries to countries in need of medical services. Their work in education and capacity building helps build local resources so that people’s needs are met after the ship sails on.
In Chicago, more than 700 co-op activists gathered this September to celebrate past worker co-ops’ achievements and plan for how to accelerate movement growth.
Public-sector worker pensions in the United States are valued at over $6 trillion, but workers have little say in where their investments go. A grassroots union campaign seeks to change that.
US unions and co-ops have often pursued their own economic justice paths. But by joining forces, the two groups have the potential to transform communities.
In this 90-minute webinar, cosponsored and co-moderated by NPQ and Shelterforce, a panel of folks will discuss the ins and outs of how to build land security for manufactured housing owners, by enabling mobile home communities to come together and own the land jointly.
Reparations concern more than cash. They require investment in community ownership in Black-owned institutions to build long-term prosperity.
Last month’s execution of Marcellus Williams is a reminder of the pervasive legacy of lynching and why some advocates believe the death penalty should be eradicated.
How can social housing be designed to meet people’s needs in the United States? Renters and unhoused people say: “Only by putting the poorest first!”
The privatization of the public university is not just about rising tuition; it is about a dependency on bond markets that leads financial concerns to supersede education.
Faith-based institutions have vast holdings of underutilized land. Now, with a housing shortage facing the nation, many faith leaders are working to do something about it.
Beth Kanter, author of The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit, talks burnout with NPQ.
Mobile health clinics foster health justice by bringing culturally competent, low-cost healthcare services directly to communities, and by connecting patients to programs, specialists, and community resources.