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Guarding Trust: Overlooked Factors That Protect Your Nonprofit’s Reputation

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Regular updates through newsletters, social media, and community meetings create a culture of transparency, ensuring supporters feel included and engaged. Whether its a donor concern, a volunteer suggestion, or community input, responding constructively demonstrates accountability.

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Bridging for Environmental Justice across Space and Time: Cambodia and the US South

NonProfit Quarterly

6 And it got me thinking about how the construction of this dam reflects a broad and long pattern of environmental injustice globally. Since the dam’s construction and operation, the holdouts have faced pressures from the dam company, which has offered them inadequate compensation and the threat of law enforcement.

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How to Help People of Color Become Homeowners: Data from Philadelphia

NonProfit Quarterly

In Philadelphia , there are expensive historic districts, clusters of new luxury construction, walkable rowhouse neighborhoods, and areas that are indistinguishable from the nearby suburbs in look and price. Updated every few years, this analysis has documented change in the city for more than two decades.

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A Political Roadmap to Social Housing: How Do We Win?

NonProfit Quarterly

Tenant mobilizations that enhance resident protections, rights, and due process—when combined with rent or affordability controls (where authorized by state law)—create a profit crisis for landlords. Construction of new rental social housing will be more challenging. Fix this latter problem and there will be sufficient housing for all.

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In Los Angeles, a Black-Led Community Land Trust Builds for the Future

NonProfit Quarterly

Crenshaw Boulevard has long been considered the cultural and commercial hub of Black Los Angeles. Another strategy used by the trust has been to purchase single-family homes and convert them into multiple units, as city zoning laws allow. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for,” observed Damien Goodmon in an interview with NPQ.

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Policies for Housing With Heart

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Households are a function of housing as much as culture. Known as granny flats, garden units, in-law apartments, mother-daughter units, and dawdy houses amongst the Amish, ADUs provide a separate living space to a home for grandparents or other relatives, often over a garage, in a backyard or in an occupiable basement.

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Minding the Gaps: Neuroethics, AI, and Depression

NonProfit Quarterly

3 By law, these must remain anonymous when used. 14 A dearth of mental health providers with the cultural understanding needed to work with NHPI youth can also lead to their misdiagnosis and underdiagnosis. Cultural and psychosocial elements, however, do have distinct influences on BIPOC communities when it comes to mental health.