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From Food Pantry to Urban Farming: Food Justice Lessons from Camden

NonProfit Quarterly

One strategy for achieving that vision is to support urban agriculture and community agency, giving people the chance to produce their own food. Advancing urban agriculture in Camden. While the answers remain complicated, we must use our collective power and community agency to address our needs.

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How Land Banks and Community Land Trusts Can Partner for Racial Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

The idea that land banks and community land trusts (CLT) might both benefit by working more closely with each other is more than a decade old. Public entities with unique governmental powers, land banks acquire vacant, tax-delinquent properties that are causing harm , improve them, then dispose of the properties to support community goals.

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Setting a Co-op Table for Food Justice in Louisville

NonProfit Quarterly

And, of course, there are always contingencies with public money. In response to the protests and adverse national publicity, Louisville put into place a civilian review board. Reporters and community members have also complained about LMPD’s failure to respond to records requests. We secured $3.5

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Black Co-op Farms: Building a Worker Strategy in Mississippi

NonProfit Quarterly

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.

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How to Eliminate the Myth of Meritocracy and Build the World We Deserve

NonProfit Quarterly

Co-produced with the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), this series examines the many ways that M4BL and its allies are seeking to address the economic policy challenges that lie at the intersection of the struggle for racial and economic justice. These racist stories then shape our policies for years and years.

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Ancestor in the Making: A Future Where Philanthropy’s Legacy Is Stopping the Bad and Building the New

NonProfit Quarterly

2 It has been edited for publication here. These successes transformed our agricultural practices, so that rather than relying on large commercial farms, regenerative farming practices gained prominence, creating food sovereignty. This speculative fiction work is drawn from Resonance: A Framework for Philanthropic Transformation.

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

Often, the very same nonprofit that is advocating for social justice policy may pay its own workers poverty-level wages. Nelson Colón of the Puerto Rico Community Foundation, and Clara Miller, president emerita of the Heron Foundation—come from philanthropy. The reality is more complicated.