Meredith Klenkel

Dec 19, 2024 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Meredith Klenkel

Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine’s fall 2024 issue, “Supporting the Youth Climate Justice Movement.”Nature teaches me about abundance and resilience, even in the midst of a seemingly hopeless time (as the media, with its tendency to glorify scarcity, would have us believe). We are witnessing a shift toward something ancient, powerful, and particularly feminine.

Dec 19, 2024 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Meredith Klenkel

Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine’s fall 2024 issue, “Supporting the Youth Climate Justice Movement.”If I weren’t an activist, I would be an artist. Growing up, I loved to paint, to make nothings into somethings. To sit outside and color, and reimagine a world where the sun was beaming down on my skin. Art made me feel like I could escape reality and be in my own world. I felt at peace. Not how I feel when fighting for basic human rights. That doesn’t feel peaceful.

Dec 19, 2024 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Meredith Klenkel

Since the election, the media has been full of thought pieces from liberal outlets and progressive commentators critiquing the Democratic Party’s emphasis on “identity politics” and subsequent alienation of the working class. This election was indeed all about identity politics: a coded, intentional, and strategic effort orchestrated by conservatives over multiple decades. Race (Whiteness) was front and center—and the people have spoken.

Dec 18, 2024 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Meredith Klenkel

I am still reeling from the results of the 2024 election. It was far worse than I could have imagined. There is so much I don’t pretend to understand about why Donald Trump was elected. While numbers can be viewed in countless ways, here are a few ways to look at who voted for Trump. Some sample numbers: Trump won 47 percent of voters ages 18 to 29, 53 percent of White women of all ages, 43 percent of all voters with a college degree, and 35 percent of all urban voters.

Dec 18, 2024 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Meredith Klenkel

This article is the final contribution in a three-part series Building Wealth for the Next Generation: The Promise of Baby Bonds—a coproduction of NPQ and the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at The New School for Social Research in New York City. On July 1, 2023, Connecticut made history by launching the nation’s first statewide baby bonds program to combat the state’s extraordinarily large wealth gap.