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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. The main goal is to empower workers and consumers and improve the quality of community life. Worker-owned co-ops and benefit corporations are additional public policy frameworks for a just economy.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

This was not so often the case in the 1960s, when civil rights laws were passed and long-term employment, at least in unionized sectors, was the norm; it is the case today. Previously, he said, “for much of the field of community organizing, there was a lot more race neutrality.” 6 (July 1991): 1241–99. Sniderman et al.,