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The EPA Launches Final Strategy on Lead Mitigation

NonProfit Quarterly

One of the stated goals of that report was to “identify communities with high lead exposures and improve their health outcomes.” Even small amounts of lead can lead to severe adverse health effects in children , including issues with learning, brain and nervous system development, hearing and speech, and arrested growth.

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Shifting the Harmful Narratives and Practices of Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

This transformation in public perception led to a decline in investment in social safety net programs, with many policymakers and citizens associating welfare with racist stereotypes and sexist assumptions. This shift also led to the “welfare queen” myth , a harmful stereotype perpetuated during the Reagan era.

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??How Community-Based Public Space Can Build Civic Trust: Lessons from Akron

NonProfit Quarterly

Among these were the local zoo, a university, a theater project, a parks advocacy group, a neighborhood association, a community development corporation, the local community foundation, and many public agencies—including the county park system, the housing authority, the transit agency, and the city and county governments.

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How Mobile Home Owners Organize for Land Ownership and Climate Resiliency

NonProfit Quarterly

Over the years, the mobile home has acquired a less desirable reputation, a stigma that the homes are cheaply made or associated with poverty. Instead, contemporary manufactured homes are regulated under a strict code from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). That reputation is shifting.

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Fisheries and Stewardship: Lessons from Native Hawaiian Aquaculture

NonProfit Quarterly

Hawai‘i’s famed/infamous history of ranching, pineapple and sugar plantation agriculture, American military land use, and rapid urban development have decimated the infrastructure of a biocultural system that once functioned sustainably across watersheds, from our mountaintops and down to the sea. This movement continues to grow.