For community development to succeed, community ownership and repair need to be put at the center. In Saint Paul, a community effort is underway to do just that.
A Reparative Economic Path to Effective and Just Community Development
How LGBTQ+ Advocates and Groups Are Combating Book Bans
Amid book bans across the South, LGBTQ+ advocates and groups are pushing back to ensure youth have access to banned books.
Overcoming Barriers to Veterans’ Physical and Mental Health
Veterans face considerable barriers to their health and wellbeing, but government initiatives and nonprofits are helping to overcome them.
The Path to Decriminalizing Mental Illness: A Conversation with Melissa Beck
Melissa Beck, leader of the Sozosei Foundation, discusses her professional journey, her work to decriminalize mental illness, and why foundations seeking to address mental illness in the United States should be doing more.
New Privacy Measure Could Help Safeguard Reproductive Healthcare
A recently issued HIPAA privacy rule could help protect women and birthing people who are forced to travel out of state for abortions and family planning services.
Remaking the Economy: Worker Self-Directed Nonprofits in Practice
What does worker self-management in nonprofits look like—and can it work in practice? In this webinar discussion, people who have participated in worker self-directed nonprofits share their experiences.
The Country of Peru Is Now Liable for Corporate Pollution
What does a climate case in Peru have in common with Montana, and how might the ruling ricochet throughout the world?
It Isn’t Just Lonely at the Top, It’s Downright Scary: The Reckoning Needed for Black Women Leaders
Doors have been opening, facilitated in part by the racial reckoning of 2020. At the same time, [Black women leaders] are experiencing the “glass cliff”: being hired or promoted into leadership, often in the midst of crisis, with unrealistic expectations to fix or turn things around and little room for error—causing severe burnout and often departure from these roles altogether.
Two Weeks in, I Already Wanted to Quit: Challenges Faced by a Queer Black Woman in Nonprofit Leadership
LGBTQ+ community centers are the spaces in which we can shift from mere awareness of the challenges that impact us to taking meaningful action. And if we want those changes, then White queer cis leaders and funders are going to need to both admit that queerness does not inoculate them against misogynoir and disrupt their privilege to create a better path for success for Black women and trans leaders.
Can Recoverable Grants Be Used to Address Racial Inequity in Funding?
A Baltimore-based initiative seeks to use recoverable grants to address inequity.
From Incremental Change to Justice
Politics may be the “art of the possible.” But not all easy wins are worth claiming. Part of social justice work is making hard choices that keep movements on the path toward justice.
Are Advertising and Marketing on the Brink of a Union Wave?
While actors and journalists have long come together in unions, unions in related creative industries, like marketing and advertising, are of more recent origin.