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From Owing to Owning: How Communities Can Control Commercial Land

NonProfit Quarterly

Nonetheless, the examples speak to the potential for community organizing, when connected to land acquisition funds, to greatly improve prospects for businesses and residents in low-income communities and communities of color. Often, preserving local business access to commercial land is a central concern.

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BIPOC Leadership Challenges: 26 Tips To Increase Accessibility Across The Nonprofit Sector

Bloomerang

This blog aims to examine these challenges and offer all nonprofits leaders methods to increase diversity and BIPOC participation in their organizations. Provide diversity and inclusion training for all staff and board members, to increase awareness and understanding of the issues faced by underserved communities.

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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. According to the Economic Policy Institute, in the 1950s and 1960s, more than 1 percent of workers participated in a union election each year.