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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

Often, the very same nonprofit that is advocating for social justice policy may pay its own workers poverty-level wages. 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.

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From Owing to Owning: How Communities Can Control Commercial Land

NonProfit Quarterly

For instance, the Anchorage Community Land Trust , which began in 2003 and is the oldest example reviewed in the report, acquired land in a BIPOC neighborhood that had a 25.1 percent poverty rate (as of 2001). This farm supports 20 immigrant and refugee farmers and emerging food entrepreneurs.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

Previously, he said, “for much of the field of community organizing, there was a lot more race neutrality.” 23 William Gale, codirector of the Urban Brookings Tax Policy Center, concurs. Are poverty wages less miserable because your boss is Black? Steve Dubb, “What Does Community Development for Liberation Look Like?,”