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The Next 4 Years: Tapping Into Nonprofit Expertise

The NonProfit Times

She has spearheaded innovation in heart and stroke prevention with AHA active in more than 100 countries. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jonathan T.M. AHA has invested more than $5.9 billion to accelerate scientific discoveries and drive innovation using new technologies.

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Disaster Recovery Requires Community Care—But Also Government Support

NonProfit Quarterly

The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary, Scott Turner, initially refused the $225 million relief plan drafted by the city of Asheville , saying that it includes diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) criteria in its prioritization of aid for those who were most impacted by the storm.The plan has since been revised.

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Countering Criminalization: The Vital Role of Organizing Against Homelessness

NonProfit Quarterly

A recent US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) report identified 771,000 homeless people in January 2024, a record number that was 18 percent higher than the previous year, which in turn marked a 12 percent increase over 2022. Its a different kind of organizing and activism, Theoharis explains.

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Federal Workers Organize to Counter “Deferred Resignation” Memo

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Chelsea Bland In the wake of a January 28 government memo titled Fork in the Road encouraging federal workers to resign their positions, and mounting warnings of mass layoffs (including the threat to lay off over 10,000 US Agency for International Development workers ), unions and their members are increasingly going public.

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Federal Workers Are Organizing for Democracy—from the Inside Out

NonProfit Quarterly

We are speaking out in our own names and our own stories,” Paul Osadebe, a FUN organizer and trial attorney with the Department of Housing and Urban Development told NPQ. When institutions are gutted, programs shuttered, and colleagues fired en masse , silence is no longer an option. “We That message has reverberated.

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Trans Refugees: What Trans People Need to Know About Finding Safety Abroad

NonProfit Quarterly

Federal agencies have also been instructed to roll back protections for trans people, with the Department of Homeland Security removing prohibitions against discriminatory surveillance based on sexual orientation or gender identity; the Department of Housing and Urban Development repealing anti-discrimination protections; multiple agencies eliminating (..)

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How to Recharge a Nonprofit-Led Affordable Housing Delivery System

NonProfit Quarterly

Here it is important to understand that nonprofits have traditionally focused on the housing aftermarket—the platforms, processes, public policy, and market activity that brings distressed and defaulted mortgaged property back to market. billion in development activity.