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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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Building an Economy with Purpose: The Transformative Potential of Baby Bonds

NonProfit Quarterly

Another example is federal highway construction and urban renewal of the mid-20th century. Just as Roosevelt envisioned a future where no American would face poverty, hunger, or insecurity, baby bonds offer a way to help achieve that promise by providing the financial tools necessary to overcome systemic barriers to wealth and opportunity.

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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. These neighborhoods still have above average poverty rates and remain majority Black and/or Latinx.

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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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Community Beyond Resources (Blog)

Stanford Social Innovation Review

People don’t just use services to learn ; they engage to shape identity, connect with others, and construct meaning. Low social capital and a lack of trust only amplify the effects of poverty. Having structure. Having someone to talk to. Feeling normal. In such a situation, the issue isn’t transport. It’s dignity.

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Policies for Housing With Heart

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Multigenerational households typically have more income earners than single families, and by combining the income of working family members and the social security or pensions of retired ones, Americans living in multigenerational households have lower levels of poverty. While 13 percent of U.S. But that, too, is changing.

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Banking and Community: A Conversation with Oscar Perry Abello

NonProfit Quarterly

From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world. For example, a construction loan is too risky for the credit union, so the loan fund handles that.