Rahel Teka

Apr 18, 2024 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Alison Stine |Rahel Teka |Amara Enyia |Rebekah Barber

In “an attempt to explore the sorrow and anxiety of living and parenting in a world on fire,” Jared Beloff started writing a book. Amid the raging pandemic in 2020, the writer couldn’t ignore the severe weather events happening around the world in close succession: intense wildfires in California, surging floods in Pakistan and China. “I kept a journal for a while just chronicling these things, to bear witness,” Beloff told NPQ in an interview.

Apr 11, 2024 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Rebekah Barber |Rahel Teka |Alison Stine

In recent years, particularly in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2013 decision in Shelby County v. Holder—the case that weakened the 1965 Voting Rights Act—Black voters have combated attempts to dilute their voting power. For instance, states like Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana have held elections using congressional maps that were deemed to be unconstitutional because they were drawn intentionally to limit Black voters’ representation.

Feb 28, 2024 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Rahel Teka

This is the fourth article in NPQ’s series, The Vision for Black Lives: An Economic Justice Agenda. Co-produced with the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), this series will examine the many ways that M4BL and its allies are seeking to address the economic policy challenges that lie at the intersection of the struggle for racial and economic justice. The uprisings in the summer of 2020 led to highly localized, specific demands, and calls for budget transparency and budget justice took center stage.

Feb 22, 2024 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Isaiah Thompson |Temi F. Bennett |Amara Enyia |Rahel Teka

“Simply put, Black women are the backbone of modern day philanthropy.” So asserts a new book, Portraits of Us: A Book of Essays Centering Black Women Leading Philanthropy, edited by Toya Nash Randall, former board chair of Black Foundation Executives and “curator and catalyst” of Voice. Vision. Value., the digital platform that published the book in partnership with Blacks in Philanthropy Networks and Regional Associations of Grantmakers.

Oct 5, 2023 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Isaiah Thompson |Rahel Teka |Bill Lascher |Ashley Burnside

In the wake of what is often described as the “racial reckoning” that followed the murder of George Floyd in 2020, US philanthropic institutions pledged vast sums of money toward racial justice and racial equity—as much as $4 billion or more, according to an analysis by the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity.