NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Ella Baker Center’s 2015 Who Pays report, which examines the financial and emotional costs to family members with incarcerated loved ones, shows that 63 percent of court related costs associated with conviction were paid for by family members on the outside—83 percent of whom were women.

Public Policy 95

Public Policy Health Poverty Associations 95

Ken Goldstein

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

To explain the law and put my board at ease, I have gone through several sources to put together the following guidelines and policy for engaging in political activity. Please feel free to borrow and adapt this policy for use in your organization. Ballot measure advocacy is a first amendment issue, not a matter of tax law.

Activism 45

Activism Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management 45

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 29, 2023

SEPA became the first “social economy” law in Asia to address traditional-market failures and bring social objectives into a broader range of government-supported economic enterprises. The first legally registered worker cooperative was the Alternate Drivers’ Cooperative, which formed in 2010 before passage of the FAC law.

Public and Social Policy 101

Public and Social Policy Social Enterprise Social Enterprise Governance 101

EveryAction

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Lambda Legal Lambda Legal is the oldest and largest national legal organization whose mission is to achieve full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and those with HIV through impact litigation, education and public policy work. Southern Poverty Law Center. United We Dream.

Public and Social Policy 76

Public and Social Policy Law Education Education 76

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Worker-owned co-ops and benefit corporations are additional public policy frameworks for a just economy. The current market economy fails to effectively distribute goods and services to large segments of the population, resulting in poverty and maldistribution of food, clothing, shelter, medical care, and education.

Public and Social Policy 117

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 117

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Robust research demonstrates that high-quality housing in a thriving community is associated with improved physical and mental health, educational and developmental outcomes for children, and financial security and economic mobility for families.

Public and Social Policy 101

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Poverty Health 101

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

Image Credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang In August 2018, the first legislation explicitly naming worker-owned cooperatives—the Main Street Employee Ownership Act—became United States federal law. Up to this point, legislation for most worker co-ops was not a priority; federal policy wasn’t even a pipe dream. Until it was.

Public Policy 73

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

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Black-led organized movement for reparations started in earnest in 1898 when the National Ex-Slave Mutual, Bounty and Pension Association was founded by formerly enslaved people. In 1898, the Association elected Callie House, a Black woman born into slavery, to lead its efforts, a role she dutifully served for 20 years.

Public and Social Policy 106

Public and Social Policy Culture Construction Psychology 106

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 1, 2022

After a decade of organizing to move debt cancellation from the margins to the center of national policy debates, the movement to cancel student debt continues to gain ground, as NPQ’s Rithika Ramamurthy documented earlier this year. Education is promised as a path out of poverty—but it’s also a means of extraction under racial capitalism.

Public and Social Policy 118

Public and Social Policy Education Education Public and Nonprofit Management 118