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Preserving Cambodia Town: How A Refugee Community Has Organized Itself

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Ian Nicole Reambonanza on Unsplash This is the fourth article in NPQ ’s series titled Building Power, Fighting Displacement: Stories from Asian Pacific America, coproduced with the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development ( National CAPACD ). How does a refugee community organize itself?

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Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

An Inspiration In the eyes of medical experts , the future of medicine is to prioritize keeping people healthy for longer periods. For example, the Australian Medical Association’s recent health vision is a departure from a tradition of what they call “sickcare” to a genuine health care. Medicine 3.0: Medicine 2.0 Medicine 3.0

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Setting a Co-op Table for Food Justice in Louisville

NonProfit Quarterly

The original group of three founders and other volunteers worked with a local attorney and a research team from the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law to draft the co-op’s original bylaws. Food co-ops must collaborate with those addressing systemic racism, health equity, and economic justice. A Co-op for Whom?

Food 101
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Changing the Health System: A Community-Led Approach Rises in Rhode Island

NonProfit Quarterly

I could see those patients in my office, give them some medication, and see them again at their follow-up appointment a month later, their situation basically unchanged—or I could do something different. Connecticut and Delaware have also created similar community-rooted collaboratives.

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

Nelson Colón of the Puerto Rico Community Foundation, and Clara Miller, president emerita of the Heron Foundation—come from philanthropy. Nonprofits would be trusted to hire the right consultants and form partnerships that are collaborative and generative toward their racial and economic justice goals.

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“Educational Purposes”: Nonprofit Land as a Vital Site of Struggle

NonProfit Quarterly

Colleges, universities, and their medical centers are registered with the Internal Revenue Service as 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit organizations. Because higher education institutions provide the public good of education to surrounding communities, their property holdings are exempt from taxation in all 50 states.