Maya Pen

Mar 21, 2024 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Alison Stine |Maya Pen

If you’ve noticed fewer children running about your local playground, heard fewer shouts of joy coming from fields or woods, it’s not just the allure of phones, social media, or video games keeping kids inside. It’s not even remote schooling. More and more, it’s the climate. Escalating air pollution, heat waves, severe storms, and wildfires make the outdoors increasingly unpleasant and unsafe, especially for the youngest and most vulnerable. Climate change is ruining play for children.

Mar 21, 2024 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Abdullahi Lawal |Alison Stine |Maya Pen

When Rene Agredano and Jim Nelson’s beloved dog Jerry was diagnosed with bone cancer in 2006, they decided to give him the best farewell road trip ever. They sold their Northern California marketing and graphics business, bought an RV, and moved around ever since, well beyond the two additional years Jerry had with them. This year marks their 17th year of living nearly full-time on the road. Adventurers like Agredano and Nelson are far from alone.

Mar 21, 2024 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Alison Stine |Isaiah Thompson |Maya Pen |Vicki Pozzebon

Around the world, people are very, very tired.

Mar 20, 2024 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Maya Pen |Abdullahi Lawal |Rebekah Barber |Marc Carr

The following is a transcript of the video above from our webinar “Remaking the Economy: Building Regional Solidarity Economies.” View the full webinar here. We talk about cooperation as basically the Black and Indigenous practice of meeting each other’s collective needs. These are things that communities of color have been doing for centuries to care for one another.