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

NonProfit Quarterly

Politicians are influenced by money as much as or, frankly, often much more than votes, and public policy is the product of calculating trade-offs between the two. Construction of new rental social housing will be more challenging. Of course, securing a significant bloc of potential votes is only part of the battle.

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What Does Centering Native Justice Require? A New Report Has Answers

NonProfit Quarterly

Tara Evonne Trudell (Santee Sioux/Rarmuri/Xicana), a visual artist interviewed for the report, notes that Western justice feels like a colonial construct imposed upon Indigenous people. Among the Din (Navajo) people, a core concept is hozho, which roughly translates as peace, balance, beauty, and harmony (19). What does Native justice demand?

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What Does Finance for the People Look Like?

NonProfit Quarterly

The Road to Public Banking in New York For decades, private banks driven by profit have funneled public money into harmful practices like fossil fuel development and speculative real estate. The same holds true for credit unions, which are barred by state law from holding any public deposits, thanks to bank lobbying.

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Latine Community Groups Mobilize to Defend Medicaid Against Cuts

NonProfit Quarterly

For many families—especially those employed in the construction, domestic work, or food industries, where employers rarely offer worker health insurance—Medicaid is the only path to essential care. Medicaid is a joint federal and state program that provides health coverage to people with low incomes. The stakes go far beyond health coverage.

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Segregation Helped Build Fortunes. What Does Philanthropy Owe Now?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Claire Dunning In early 1926, Cafritz Construction placed an advertisement in The Washington Post celebrating the speed with which their “Life-time Homes” were selling in the Petworth neighborhood of Washington, DC. Perhaps potential buyers would be swayed by the “superior construction” or the “unusually big lots.”

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Reimagining the Role of Business in Protecting Biodiversity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Solugen is currently constructing a commercial biomanufacturing facility to scale production—and it is just one of many innovators in this market. Instead of constructing a new office, manufacturing or retail site, companies can first restore existing buildings. Contribute to ecosystem restoration.

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How Policy Is Building a Social Economy in South Korea

NonProfit Quarterly

Often, groups of residents would come together to cooperatively seek and share work in sectors like construction and housecleaning or to market locally produced goods. The first legally registered worker cooperative was the Alternate Drivers’ Cooperative, which formed in 2010 before passage of the FAC law.