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Aug 15, 2024 | 
nonprofitquarterly.org | Garrett Neiman |Otis Pitney |Meredith Klenkel |Lora Smith
When we last wrote about White men’s participation in racial justice work for NPQ in October 2023, we described how nine White men participating in the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington, wearing shirts that read “White Men for Racial Justice,” was novel enough to spark curiosity and enthusiasm from fellow marchers. This summer, progressive White male organizing has attracted far more than nine people.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
nonprofitquarterly.org | Lora Smith |Suman Bhattacharyya |Ted Siefer
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
nonprofitquarterly.org | Lora Smith |Steve Dubb |Anne Price
As NPQ moves into its two-week summer break, economic justice editor Steve Dubb highlights eight selected articles from the first seven months of 2024.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
nonprofitquarterly.org | Lora Smith |Meredith Klenkel
With this article, we conclude NPQ’s series, Just Transition: Liberating Finance to Build a Better World. Coproduced with Justice Funders, a group that organizes philanthropy to advance a just transition to an equitable and sustainable economy and planet, this series highlights case studies of emerging funding networks facilitating investment in liberatory economic practices in frontline BIPOC communities.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
nonprofitquarterly.org | Isaiah Thompson |Lora Smith |Steve Dubb |Ted Siefer
Since 1983, Massachusetts has been the only state in the United States to provide a “Right to Shelter” for homeless families—adults accompanied by one or more children. The law has kept tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of families desperately in need of shelter off the streets, whether through placements at emergency shelters or other accommodations like hotels. The governor’s actions will mean families with children sleeping in the streets.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
nonprofitquarterly.org | Tram Hoang |Meredith Klenkel |Lora Smith |Anne Price
The following is a transcript of the video above, from our webinar “Remaking the Economy: How Policy Can Help Tenants Purchase Their Homes.” View the full webinar here. Tram Hoang: As we’re talking to other cities and states about how they’re building out their policies, I put it under four categories in terms of building the right ecosystem for the policy, because the policy must exist with infrastructure.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
nonprofitquarterly.org | Tonie Marie Gordon |Meredith Klenkel |Lora Smith |Rithika Ramamurthy
In the United States, the reproductive health landscape is radically different than it was a few years ago. By overturning Roe v. Wade, the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision created a stark divide between states, with some enacting restrictions that completely or partly ban abortion and others continuing to provide access. What outcomes—including women’s health, wellbeing, and economic prosperity—are associated with this shift?
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
nonprofitquarterly.org | Rebekah Barber |Lora Smith |Anne Price |Steve Dubb
For Earl Martin Phalen, a crucial part of leadership is giving back and paying it forward to those coming behind him. Placed into foster care after being born to a single mother, Phalen came into this world at a time when a front-page article in the Boston Globe claimed that 70 percent of Black boys in the Massachusetts foster care system would end up in prison by the time they were 21. Phalen, however, beat these odds.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
nonprofitquarterly.org | Tonie Marie Gordon |Meredith Klenkel |Lora Smith |Steve Dubb
For the first time in 27 years, the US Census is changing how it categorizes people by race and ethnicity. But will the changes more appropriately capture the country’s diverse tapestry of people? Though federal officials are making changes to develop what they believe is a more accurate count of US residents who identify as “Hispanic or Latino” as well as “Middle Eastern and North African,” some advocates argue that the new approach misses the mark.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
nonprofitquarterly.org | Rebekah Barber |Lora Smith |Ted Siefer
On December 31, 1862, enslaved people and free Black people gathered together, heavily awaiting the news that President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation had taken effect. Lincoln officially signed the Proclamation on January 1, 1863, declaring that all people held as slaves within the Confederate states “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.”A native of Texas, [Lee] understands on a personal level that no one is free until all of us are free.
