Rithika Ramamurthy

Aug 14, 2024 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Steve Dubb |Rithika Ramamurthy |Ananda Valenzuela

“I would like to stress the importance of walking more liberatory paths and imagining different futures. When we get out of the box of what’s possible within these cultures and structures that we’ve inherited from the corporate world, we open up into a totally different landscape of different formations, of different ways of operating.”

Aug 2, 2024 | znetwork.org | Rithika Ramamurthy |Steve Dubb |Corporations Vision

The aircraft manufacturer Boeing, granted the authority by the Federal Aviation Administration in 2009 to self-certify compliance, uses that authority to cut regulatory corners—with tragic results.1 A 10-person advisory panel convened by the Federal Drug Administration in 2002 looks at an alarming rise in prescriptions for a Purdue Pharma drug known as OxyContin, but half of the members have ties to the company and no action is taken, allowing opioid overdose deaths to continue to climb.2 A...

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?

May 9, 2024 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Yanique Redwood |Meredith Klenkel |Rithika Ramamurthy |Astra Taylor

Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine’s spring 2024 issue, “‘Stop Drowning Us, and Stop Making Us Disappear’: A Critical Report on the State of Black Woman Leadership.”Thequestionremainsinmymind:HowdosomanyBlackwomenwhohavenevermet,don’tliveinthe sameneighborhood,don’tworkinthesameindustry,andhavedifferentlifebackgrounds,allhave similarstories thatspeaktothesamedynamic?Itcannotbeacoincidence.

May 8, 2024 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Steve Dubb |Rithika Ramamurthy |Astra Taylor |Faye Christoforo

The [proposed] Capital One-Discover merger is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea. Jesse Van Tol, CEO, National Community Reinvestment Coalition, conference keynote address, April 3, 2024At NPQ, we have written from time to time about antitrust law—that is, legal restrictions that limit corporate concentration and monopoly power. But to date, such laws have not stopped corporate concentration from increasing.