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

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” At the height of the pandemic, I was swept up in a titanic battle being waged over the right to a city. 1 That city was New Haven, Connecticut.

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Housing and Climate: Funding Holistic Solutions

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Funders for Housing and Opportunity (FHO) is a collaborative of 13 philanthropies, including The JPB Foundation where I serve as senior vice president of environment and strategic initiatives. These developments all point to a political and funding context conducive to climate and housing justice. What Philanthropy Can Do.

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Community Development Must Center Power Building: A San Francisco Story

NonProfit Quarterly

Although the campaign was lost, the I-Hotel struggle was a foundational political moment for Asian Americans in the United States. Because Chinatown CDC is not an organizing entity, building people power requires supporting the development of the grassroots organizations that engage and lead in those public processes.