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With Help from the Donors of Color Network, Two Organizations Are Creating Change

NonProfit Quarterly

Through research over the years, the organization has shown how environmental harm impacts health, housing, jobs, education, and its persistence throughout communities of color along the Mississippi River Chemical Corridor—also known as Cancer Alley, or sometimes Death Alley — and the broader Gulf Coast Region.

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Making Policy Work for Rural Communities: The Value of Community Voice

NonProfit Quarterly

Coproduced by Partners for Rural Transformation, a coalition of six regional community development financial institutions, and NPQ , authors highlight efforts to address multi-generational poverty in Appalachia, the rural West, Indian Country, South Texas, and the Mississippi Delta.

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Can Public Power Advance Economic Justice?

NonProfit Quarterly

But at the EconCon conference held in Washington, DC, in June, hosted by the Omidyar Network and a dozen nonprofit think tanks, speakers offered a far broader definition of public power— namely, the power of government to act on behalf of the public. Why focus on “public power”? But the power of industrial policy extends further.

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A New (Renewable) Energy Tyranny

NonProfit Quarterly

But the key difference is that they represent very different socio-economic energy development models and very different impacts on our communities and living ecosystems. This model forces communities to pay the enormous costs of unneeded transmission line construction and bear the massive burden of transmission line failures.

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How to Eliminate the Myth of Meritocracy and Build the World We Deserve

NonProfit Quarterly

Nowhere is this more evident than in the construction and decimation of the social safety net. The Home Owners’ Loan Corporation and the Federal Housing Administration promoted racial covenants and other instruments of segregation by refusing home loans for Black and Latinx families. None of this was an accident.

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5 Land Defense Protests Around the World

NonProfit Quarterly

Current Action : Land defenders have been camping in the forest for months to stop construction and have faced violent police retaliation. According to Indigenous rights and environmental groups, these activities have had a detrimental effect on the social and health outlooks of the Yanomami people. On January 19th, violence escalated.

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Building a City of the Future by Restoring Its Past: A Story from Black Memphis

NonProfit Quarterly

The interview that follows explores the history of the Clayborn Temple, the project to restore it, and the vision of Troutman and her colleagues to use the temple as a hub for developing a community-based economy in Memphis that i s Black-owned, Black-governed, and which sustains a thriving culture rooted in the Black imagination.