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Get to Know Our Public Policy Intern, Adiza Hamda!

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

Welcome Adiza Hamda, our new Public Policy Intern We’re excited to welcome Adiza Hamda our new public policy intern for Tennessee Nonprofit Network! Her long-term goal is to contribute her skills and knowledge towards ameliorating pervasive social challenges and improving the quality of life of the human race.

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Unlikely Advocates: Worker Co-ops, Grassroots Organizing, and Public Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

Up to this point, legislation for most worker co-ops was not a priority; federal policy wasn’t even a pipe dream. Public policy wasn’t really a part of our culture. Why Prioritize Public Policy and Advocacy? 6 Engaging in public policy advocacy is not without its dangers. Until it was.

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Building Infrastructure to Support Equity: A Conversation with Dr. Akilah Watkins

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Chris Briggs on unsplash.com Dr. Akilah Watkins, who previously led the Center for Community Progress and has been a leader in the CEO Circle, a group of community development leaders of color, became president and CEO of Independent Sector in January 2023. I was ready for that challenge and opportunity.

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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 reality is more complicated.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

“RULER OF THE EARTH” BY YUET-LAM TSANG Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” How do social movements come to make the language of economic systems change their own? We think it can. We think it can.

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

Bloomerang

BIPOC communities are disproportionately impacted by social inequality, with higher rates of poverty and unemployment. This can make it difficult for BIPOC-led organizations to address the needs of their communities effectively, and can also limit their ability to attract and retain talented staff and volunteers.