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A Political Roadmap to Social Housing: How Do We Win?

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Roman Kraft on Unsplash It’s becoming increasingly hard to find a housing justice organizer who hasn’t been to Vienna or extolled the virtues of its social housing sector, and wants to do something similar in the United States. What is Social Housing? What’s harder to find is a political strategy to achieve as much.

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US Nonprofit Sector Documents Its Own Powerlessness, but What Will We Do?

NonProfit Quarterly

Since 1973, I have started or led 14 nonprofit enterprises in the arts, community development, and civic engagement sectors. I have been a managing director, a board member, a board president, a consultant to nonprofits, and taught college courses on nonprofit management and policy at several Chicago universities.

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The Playbook: How to Organize and Stop Megaprojects

NonProfit Quarterly

Anyone who says there is no money for needed social services should look again. Across the United States, at least a dozen sports teams—often owned by White billionaire families—are aggressively pushing for more than $14 billion in public subsidies to build private stadiums. The money is there—it’s just going to the wrong places.

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What Does Centering Native Justice Require? A New Report Has Answers

NonProfit Quarterly

Legal justice, environmental justice, racial and social justice. Michael Roberts (Tlingit), First Nations Development Institute What does justice mean in Native American communities? The US education system is a primary culprit. Credit: Zoe Urness (Tlingit Alaskan Native and Cherokee). Image courtesy of First Nations.

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What San Antonio Can Learn from Its German Sister City amid a Rise in Migration

NonProfit Quarterly

In Germany, strained local resources for the ongoing flow of migrants, overburdened social services, and historic divisions between eastern and western states, have fueled anti-migrant sentiment and strengthened far-right parties. Sister city relationships are partnerships meant to foster cultural, educational and economic exchanges.

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How to Stop TIFs and Megaprojects: Stories from the Field

NonProfit Quarterly

In city neighborhoods, local economic policy and city planning are central to these outcomes, but are often opaque to everyday people. In an ideal world, the public would have the right to determine our own futurethe people plan the development and improvement of our own communities rather than wealthy outsiders.

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Beyond Dialogue: Igniting Racial Justice in a Shifting Political Landscape

NonProfit Quarterly

As was noted in NPQ back in 2018, FCPRs approach on power, community organization, civil society, and racial equity sets it apart from the more established philanthropic approach focusing on strengthening large, established institutions. REBIA emerged out of this institutional commitment to racial equity.