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Locked Out: The Myth of the Black Middle Class

NonProfit Quarterly

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.

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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. Worker-owned co-ops and benefit corporations are additional public policy frameworks for a just economy. Sometimes, nonprofits advance economic justice; sometimes, they are part of the problem.

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The Call of Leadership Now: BIPOC Leaders in a Syndemic Era

NonProfit Quarterly

This includes strategies of community organizing, public policy and advocacy, civic engagement, cultural/arts organizing, land/food sovereignty, healing justice, and more. How do we shift scarcity mindsets that are rooted in deep and real experiences with poverty and oppression? Rudd, Christina F. 1 (January 4, 2022): 33–34.

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Cancelling Student Debt Is Necessary for Racial Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

Education is promised as a path out of poverty—but it’s also a means of extraction under racial capitalism. The American Association of University Women notes that women hold two-thirds of all US student loan debt. Racist public policy created it, and we will need bold structural solutions to fix it.”

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Leading Together for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Sida Ly-Xiong After completing a leadership fellowship program for women of color, a program participant accepted a position as director of citizen engagement and education at a state public health agency in the United States.

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Leading the Resistance: 28 Organizations You Can (and Should) Support Today

EveryAction

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.

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Driving Change in Housing Policies With Advocacy and Organizing

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Advocacy and organizing for racially equitable housing policies is a cornerstone of building a just housing system in the United States. FHO: What constitutes success in reshaping the policies that leave people vulnerable to racist and inequitable housing?