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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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Experiments in Community Ownership Taking Charge of Commercial Real Estate

NonProfit Quarterly

Activists directly confronted new art galleries with protests and headline-grabbing disputes over who has the right to live and work in a community that has been the center of Mexican-American history and culture for generations. Was our advocacy for community members, including the most marginalized—such as immigrant entrepreneurs—enough?

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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 other five work for nonprofit intermediary organizations. The main goal is to empower workers and consumers and improve the quality of community life.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

Another approach—and one that can also face resistance—is what is known as the worker self-directed nonprofit, which applies management strategies in the worker co-op sector to nonprofits. 45 There are additional steps as well that movements can and must take beyond the nonprofit sector. 2 (Summer 2022): 98–107.