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From Owing to Owning: How Communities Can Control Commercial Land

NonProfit Quarterly

Additionally, Duranti-Martinez points out, “Community ownership also means that the people most impacted by racial, economic, and environmental injustice have meaningful decision-making power over development” (7). Paul, tells Duranti-Martinez, for public policy to go beyond funding community ownership “experiments.”

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A Banker’s Case for Public Banking

NonProfit Quarterly

Despite their best intentions, minority deposit institutions (MDIs) and community development financial institutions (CDFIs), like other small banks, simply lack the capital base to close the racial gap. The Push for Public Banks Today, more public banks are being launched and planned.

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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. Worker-owned co-ops and benefit corporations are additional public policy frameworks for a just economy. The drug epidemic has devastated our most poverty-stricken communities.