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

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Whether its a donor concern, a volunteer suggestion, or community input, responding constructively demonstrates accountability. Example: Annual Data Privacy Reviews A community health nonprofit reviews its data privacy policies annually to ensure compliance with updated laws and best practices, reinforcing trust with their community.

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Limited Equity Housing Cooperatives: Why They’re a Solution for Our Times

NonProfit Quarterly

Laws and regulations supporting LEHCs vary from state to state and country to country. The San Francisco Community Land Trust , Asian Law Caucus , and Chinatown Community Development Center teamed up to buy the building and transform it into a cooperative.

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The Playbook: How to Organize and Stop Megaprojects

NonProfit Quarterly

Expansion of the surveillance state : The Olympics—as law professor Anne Toomey McKenna notes —are a venue famous (or infamous) for “pervasive and persistent surveillance before, during, and after the Games.”

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How TIFs Impact Racial and Economic Justice at the Local Level

NonProfit Quarterly

For example, in February 2025, the Kaneland School District in Kane County, west of Chicago, drafted a complaint as a prelude to suing the City of Sugar Grove over the tax increment financing for a massive development involving housing, business, and warehouse construction known as The Grove. According to City data, of the $30.8

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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.

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Okinawa and the Link Between Socioeconomic Disparities and Colonialism in Japan

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Importantly, the Battle of Okinawa devastated Okinawa's railways; post-war road constructions primarily served US military interests; and much agricultural land, the primary source of industry in Okinawa, was seized for the construction of military facilities. Relocation of the bases has also remained out of reach.