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Why Reparations Can Counter the Legacy of a 50-Year “War on Drugs”

NonProfit Quarterly

This record acts as a form of permanent punishment, limiting our ability to participate in civil society through a complex web of laws in Illinois that punish people with criminal records, often indefinitely. The informal economy is a diversified set of economic activities that are unprotected and unregulated by the state.

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Recentering Philanthropy toward Social Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

And often, when you start to introduce somebody who has a different type of background, there’s a lot of bias, and that person ends up having to do a lot of the education. What does the donor-education process look like here?” Building alignment is through conversations, relationship building, education. CS: That says a lot.