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¡Adelante! A Latinx Community Organizes to Generate Community Wealth

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Daniel Xavier on pexels This is the fourth article in NPQ ’s series titled Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. How does a small Latinx community organize itself to support homegrown businesses? Developing Community Leadership Entrepreneurs play a critical role as community builders.

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Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Wealthy philanthropic organizations often view issues through the lens of scientific, technological, and financial superiority. Unfortunately, our blind faith in solutions and the capabilities of new technologies can lead to a careless attitude towards creating problems.

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‘Genius’ Awards For Nonprofits

The Agitator

Children and Family Justice Center at Northwestern University – Chicago, Illinois ($750,000) protects the rights and well-being of young people in the juvenile justice system and advocates for fairer laws and policies. Housing Partnership Network – Boston, Massachusetts ($1.5

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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. Conservative politicians and business lobbyists wielded labor law to suppress union activity, such as making boycotts and solidarity strikes illegal.

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“Educational Purposes”: Nonprofit Land as a Vital Site of Struggle

NonProfit Quarterly

6 Schools like Stanford, MIT, and Yale immediately scrambled to create technology transfer offices that helped them privatize and profit from the work done in laboratories sitting on tax-exempt land. Real estate developers like Wexford: Science + Technology have calculated the benefits of working on property-tax-exempt campus land.