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Gumbo for the Struggle: Recipes of Liberation from the Cultural Kitchen

NonProfit Quarterly

The cultural sector is actively seeking alternatives to business-as-usual. This article concludes the series, “ Remember the Future: Culture and Systems Change ,” which is co-produced by Art.coop and NPQ. Our world-making project, in short, is centered on creating community spaces in which Black arts and culture can flourish.

Culture 101
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Preserving Cambodia Town: How A Refugee Community Has Organized Itself

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Ian Nicole Reambonanza on Unsplash This is the fourth article in NPQ ’s series titled Building Power, Fighting Displacement: Stories from Asian Pacific America, coproduced with the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development ( National CAPACD ). How does a refugee community organize itself?

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How Philanthropy Can Show Up for an Arts Solidarity Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

The cultural sector is seeking alternatives to business-as-usual. This article introduces a new series, titled “Remember the Future: Culture and Systems Change,” co-produced by Art.coop and NPQ. Efforts to remedy historic race-based harms by prioritizing care for land, resources, people, and cultural expressions are flourishing.

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Nuestra Comunidad: Tools to Preserve Latinx and Immigrant Communities

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Abe Camacho on unsplash.com This article introduces a new NPQ series, Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. When people are forced to leave, these neighborhoods often lose their cultural vibrancy and sense of community that made them appealing to new residents in the first place.

Culture 95
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Ending Persistent Poverty in Rural America: The Role of CDFIs

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Oladimeji Odunsi on unsplash.com Rural America is far more diverse than how it is portrayed in media and popular culture. For decades, community development financial institutions have delivered capital into communities and regions that otherwise suffer from disinvestment.

Poverty 119
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Building Public Support for Employee Ownership: Lessons from Colorado

NonProfit Quarterly

While the National Center for Employee Ownership defines employee ownership as “any arrangement in which a company’s employees own shares in their company or the right to the value of shares in their company,” in a worker cooperative, ownership means not just sharing profits, but having a direct voice and vote in the workplace.

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Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Impoverished individuals are treated as passive recipients of solutions, with no active role in the process. The proposed work would integrate fundamental changes in programs and policies to transform driver education, active and latent safety measures, and the built environment.