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How Nonprofits Can Leverage Their Financial Relationships to Advance Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Getty Images on Unsplash Consider a food bank discovering that its operating reserves are in banks that finance industrial agriculture, the very system contributing to food insecurity and displacing small community farms. trillion in 403(b) accounts that nonprofits offer).

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Sharing Meals

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Nessa Richman What will it take to create systems change in our food system? Because of food’s centrality to how we all live—a centrality which produces complex relationships and interconnections across multiple scales—our food system is difficult to transform. Talking about “systems” can be very abstract.

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Anchoring Communities: How to Combat Displacement Through Asset Ownership

NonProfit Quarterly

Owning space—whether for housing, business, or agriculture—is a critical piece of communities’ resistance and long-term stability. created two limited liability companies under its control to manage the property, minimizing financial risk, while maintaining community stewardship. The path to community ownership isn’t easy, however.

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The AI Mirror—How to Reclaim Our Humanity in the Age of Machine Thinking

NonProfit Quarterly

The AI Mirror by DALL-E 3/OpenAI.com/DALLE Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? Well, those models have failed spectacularlyand routinelyin many different countries.

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What Does Centering Native Justice Require? A New Report Has Answers

NonProfit Quarterly

One involves the unfilled legal, moral, and economic obligations established by hundreds of treaties with the US government. And a third are limits on Native representation in the US government itself. The authors also emphasize that sustainable agriculture practices work with rather than at the expense ofthe land (39).

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Why Climate Justice Requires Community-Owned Renewable Energy

NonProfit Quarterly

The Justice40 Initiative , for example , commits multiple agenciesespecially the federal Departments of Agriculture and Energy , and the US Environmental Protection Agency to the promise that 40 percent of federal spending should benefit disadvantaged communities. The sense of funding uncertainty is palpable.

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The Struggle to Rebuild Lahaina: Where Is Recovery Two Years After the Fires?

NonProfit Quarterly

A year later, the County of Maui’s Emergency Management Agency dutifully produced a 66-page report with a set of recommendations for future emergency preparedness and response. State researchers warned that mismanaged agricultural lands had become dangerously flammable. Water has also been a topic at the center of the recovery effort.