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Building Community through Holistic Strategy: A Story from a Seattle Immigrant Suburb

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: TuiPhotoengineer on istock.com This is the fifth and final 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 ).

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Black Americans especially have faced pervasive discrimination in education, the workforce, and the ability to build wealth through property ownership. Training and support programs for cooperative and community-owned entities will be key. That’s not what happened, of course. President George W. We must grasp this problem at its root.

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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. In a massive charitable response, vast networks of locally supported food pantries, coat drives, homeless shelters, community clinics, and free schools have been launched and sustained.

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Ancestor in the Making: A Future Where Philanthropy’s Legacy Is Stopping the Bad and Building the New

NonProfit Quarterly

These new laws channeled philanthropic assets into municipal bonds and community development loan funds, which stabilized local municipalities. We witnessed huge shifts to public education with dramatic differences in per-pupil spending, because resources were no longer allocated by zip code.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

For instance, the Carolina Federation, a North Carolina 501(c)(4) advocacy group, centers its political and economic power- building work in nine DNA principles, specifying the core values that guide their work—including solidarity, the need for structural economic change, and a commitment to developing leaders and repairing harm.