The next phase of climate justice may depend less on who writes the rules and more on who controls and protects the money that turns those rules into reality.
Could States Lead Climate Justice Funding?
Georgia’s Judicial Industry Is Built on the Backs of the Incarcerated Poor
The arc of Georgia prison labor bends not toward justice or rehabilitation, but towards profit for the elite—accumulated through the inhumane treatment and systematic exploitation of the state’s poor, and disproportionately Black, population.
On the Heels of ICE Raids, Minnesota Also Fights to Save a Wilderness
Nonprofits from across Minnesota and beyond are racing to save the beloved Boundary Waters from mining and exploitation.
Why We Should Not Abandon the South
History shows that there is a legacy of people who have intentionally chosen to work in the South to combat threats—and this work has benefited everyone.
When Institutions Win and Justice Loses: The Creek Freedmen Case and What Civil Society Can Learn
The Muscogee (Creek) Nation’s refusal to implement its own courts’ rulings on Creek Freedmen citizenship is a live test of whether legal and moral covenants survive political pressure—and every nonprofit, CDFI, and philanthropic leader has a stake in the outcome.
Custodians
My family’s custodianship of David’s tomb suggests that civic life begins before citizenship and survives beyond sovereignty. The United States at its 250th anniversary must grapple with the fact that it has spent decades breaking with the principles of its own founding documents.
If Solidarity Is Possible, So Is a Pro-Trans Majority
If a pro-trans majority is on the table, how might we cultivate it? By building majorities, practicing solidarity, contesting for governing power, and offering a vision.
How America’s Independence from England Revolutionized US Philanthropy
John Hancock did something revolutionary 250 years ago when the Massachusetts merchant signed the Declaration of Independence, announcing to the world that 13 English colonies were freeing themselves from Great Britain and from monarchy.
Black Alabama Voters Lose Again as Supreme Court Greenlights Map
Southern states are feeling the ripple effects of an earlier Supreme Court ruling that’s rewriting 60 years of voting protections.
The Boardroom Belongs to the Community
Keeping the community at the center requires boards to look past familiar and comfortable strategies, even when doing so creates friction, costs a gift, or demands change no one is quite ready for.
Museums, Inclusion, and Community Wellbeing: Who Gets to Decide What Our History Is?
Museums offer a transformative opportunity: to document, shape and reshape our knowledge of our own history. But who writes that history?
While I Lost One, I Gained Thousands
After losing his 16-year-old daughter LoEshe to gun violence in 1997, Donald Lacy founded the LoveLife Foundation in her memory—and nearly three decades later, finds that the joy she put into the world still sustains the work.