Union workers at the legal services nonprofit Mobilization for Justice (MFJ) reflect on the issues that have led up to their months-long strike.
Nonprofit Legal Service Workers in New York City Strike for a Fair Contract
Worker Co-ops, Radical Municipalism, and Liberatory Economics
Alone, worker co-ops cannot bring about a solidarity economy. But combined with a political worldview that challenges systemic inequality, they can play a critical role.
Will New Rules for the Road Emerge for Bank Mergers?
US banking has famously become concentrated among a few “too big to fail” banks in the past few decades. Now, both activists and policymakers are calling for new limits.
Solidarity Challenges the Status Quo: A Conversation with Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor
How might solidarity help nonprofits, movement groups, and philanthropy build a world centered in racial and economic justice?
Want Democratic Leadership at Your Nonprofit? Here Are Some Dos and Don’ts
More nonprofit employees are seeking to democratize leadership through what are being called “worker self-directed nonprofits.” It’s not easy but it can be rewarding.
After Spend-Down, Foundation Offers Advice on Power Imbalance in Philanthropy
As the Edward W. Hazen Foundation prepares to close its doors, it leaves advice on how to build better funder and grantee relationships.
Anti-DEI Legislation Threatens Medical School Diversity
A proposed bill would ban diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in medical schools, threatening the diversity of medical schools, and, consequently, the provision of healthcare for vulnerable communities.
Is Climate Change Making Loneliness Worse?
Loneliness is an epidemic. How is the climate crisis contributing to social isolation, and can nonprofits and new legislation help?
How Women in the United States Are Stepping Up to Support Women in Haiti
Amid the recent crisis in Haiti, women are stepping up to support those most impacted.
What Are Reparations?
Reparations is about three main things: resources, policies and programs, and ending anti-Blackness. The latter requires analysis and vision to remake the future.
Your Comfort Is Killing Me: The Toll of Unseen—and Unpaid—Emotional Labor
The endemic nature of harmful experiences in unsupportive and toxic workplaces creates a collective emotional drain among women of color leaders in the United States. Women of color leaders are being depleted while navigating harm at the interpersonal, institutional, and societal levels, distracting and derailing energy, creativity, and attention from the intended work of creating a more just world for all.
“We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible”: Navigating Three Black Women Tropes in Leadership
Many organizational executives who identify as Black and women are not sure how much longer they will be able to continue in their leadership roles. The physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual toll of doing the emotional labor expected of us—the labor that racism socializes others to expect us to do in the workplace and beyond—has been documented as shortening our lives.