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The Jackson Water Crisis, the Complexity of Environmental Racism

NonProfit Quarterly

But lead exposure is particularly harmful for children, in whom it can cause speech and developmental delays, hyperactivity, rashes, and neurologic problems. University of Mississippi professors Meagen Rosenthal and Anne Cafer explain that Black Americans are more likely to lack health insurance, a regular source of healthcare, or both.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

A Brief History of US Welfare Welfare was first established in the United States by Illinois reformers in the early 1900s as a cash payment program for poor (almost exclusively White) widows who could not raise their children without help once their husbands died. Contained within it were two different kinds of policies.

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How to Attract Childcare Workers? Virginia Tries Fast Training and Higher Pay

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Drazen Zigic on istock.com Three years after the initial upheaval caused by the pandemic, families across the country continue to struggle to find affordable care for their children, and childcare facilities struggle to find and retain employees. Workers at childcare facilities also rarely receive health insurance benefits.

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Shifting the Harmful Narratives and Practices of Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

Work requirements are based on several problematic truths about the United States: an unwillingness to govern by fact rather than fiction, a deep history of racism and sexism, and a centuries-long capitalist work ethic that treats people as dispensable. These accusations were never based in reality. They are administratively efficient.

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Can Public Power Advance Economic Justice?

NonProfit Quarterly

But at the EconCon conference held in Washington, DC, in June, hosted by the Omidyar Network and a dozen nonprofit think tanks, speakers offered a far broader definition of public power— namely, the power of government to act on behalf of the public. Sometimes with the government I don’t have a great story to tell,” Raghuveer noted. “I

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Your Tennessee Legislative Recap for 2023

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

An additional 118 residential placements are included for children with high levels of service needs who currently lack a placement. $29 29 million to expand provider network for children with complex or special needs that face challenges being placed in a traditional foster or adoptive home.

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Wartime Digital Resilience

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Gulsanna Mamediieva Prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, technology was already a growing part of the Ukrainian economy and was central to the government’s vision to reimagine the way citizens and businesses interact with the state in the digital era: paperless, cashless, and without bureaucracy.