Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 21, 2023

By Vurayayi Pugeni , Caroline Pugeni & Dan Maxson International community development has changed significantly over its history, shifting from primarily responding to disaster events to improving communities using a sectoral approach to issues like health, agriculture, and water and sanitation.

Culture 52

Culture Agriculture Values Health 52

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In the series, urban and rural grassroots leaders from across the United States share how their communities are developing and implementing strategies—grounded in local places, cultures, and histories—to shift power and achieve systemic change.

Food 92

Food Public and Nonprofit Management Medical Community Development 92

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2022

It explores how these leaders are addressing critical issues at the intersection of food sovereignty, racial and economic justice, and community. Mississippi has a rich culture, but for generations, its Black communities have experienced health inequities intertwined with discrimination, poverty, and racial exclusion.

Food 118

Food Agriculture Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 118

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2024

The myth of American meritocracy is not merely an occasional story; it is upheld daily by social systems, structures, and cultural narratives. The false belief that a person can leverage hard work and talent to pull themselves and their family out of poverty should they only try is a pervasive story that has shaped our culture and laws.

Public and Social Policy 103

Public and Social Policy Poverty Law Children 103

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

These successes transformed our agricultural practices, so that rather than relying on large commercial farms, regenerative farming practices gained prominence, creating food sovereignty. These new laws channeled philanthropic assets into municipal bonds and community development loan funds, which stabilized local municipalities.

Public and Social Policy 114

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Taxation 114

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Nelson Colón of the Puerto Rico Community Foundation, and Clara Miller, president emerita of the Heron Foundation—come from philanthropy. It prioritizes building personal, social, emotional, and cultural capacities of human beings—instead of irrational consumption. The other five work for nonprofit intermediary organizations.

Public and Social Policy 122

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 122

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

And folks drew on the knowledge of cooperatives in the Black community going back to the 19th century. My mom was part of what we’d now call a CSA (community-supported agriculture). From New Orleans, I learned how to go about constructing a community land trust. That was always floating around.

Public and Social Policy 137

Public and Social Policy Education Education Recruitment 137

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2023

But that was a group of African American families who came together to own, co-govern, control land resources and have an agricultural cooperative and really come together to self-determine. 01:16:50] The other seats are nonprofits, religious institutions, community development corporations, and businesses.

Public and Social Policy 91

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Food Nonprofit governance and management 91

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

Public policy wasn’t really a part of our culture. Owing to a healthy skepticism of a government and institutional structures that were designed to expropriate land, labor value, and even cultural capital from our communities, movement organizations are rightly set against reformist policies. Until it was.

Public Policy 73

Public Policy Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 73