Sandhya Nakhasi

2 weeks ago | ssir.org | Chana Schoenberger |Sean Gibbons |Tristan Mohabir |Sandhya Nakhasi

Organizational Development Decentralized Workplace Companies that adopt nonhierarchical organizational structures require deliberate efforts and collective planning to succeed.

Jul 11, 2024 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Abdullahi Lawal |Meredith Klenkel |Saru Jayaraman |Sandhya Nakhasi

The Amazon rainforest is often referred to as the “lungs of the Earth.” One of the world’s most vital ecosystems, it’s facing a crisis due to deforestation and climate change. These threats jeopardize the livelihoods of Indigenous communities and the biodiversity the forest sustains.

Jul 10, 2024 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Saru Jayaraman |Meredith Klenkel |Sandhya Nakhasi |Steve Dubb

The US restaurant industry is on the cusp of historic change. After years of organizing and building power to raise wages and end subminimum tip-based wages, restaurant and service workers and “high road” restaurant owners in many states still work in an industry that offers a minimum wage of $2.13 an hour—a direct legacy of slavery. But since the COVID-19 pandemic, over one million workers have left the industry, resulting in thousands of restaurants raising wages to recruit staff.

Jul 10, 2024 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Steve Dubb |Saru Jayaraman |Sandhya Nakhasi |Rebekah Barber

Who pays? Along with its companion question of “who benefits,” “who pays” has long been a central concern of both politics and economics. Earlier this year, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) published Who Pays: A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States, its seventh study on the topic since 1996 and its first since 2018. State and local tax policy tends to get less attention than federal taxes. In part, this makes sense.

Jul 9, 2024 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Sandhya Nakhasi |Meredith Klenkel

“You can’t build wealth for Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color by continuing to extract wealth from these same communities that have faced multigenerational exclusion and extraction from our financial systems.”I’ve said this line more times than I can count in meetings with foundations, impact investors, and progressive asset managers. But I’m regularly met with blank stares. How might we reimagine [fiduciary duty] to pave the path to more just outcomes?