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Shifting the Harmful Narratives and Practices of Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

Narrative History Narratives are our cultural understandings, our frames of reference, our mental models—they provide the story of our social world. During this time, Black people were forced into labor without choice or compensation because of the widespread cultural narrative that they were racially inferior.

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Antionette Kerr : How I Became a Self-Care Radical

NonProfit Hub

Department of Housing and Urban Development) transitions threatened most aspects of our funding, I said “yes” to more than 12 local and state boards while serving as an executive director of an affordable housing nonprofit and vice president of our state coalition. At a time when HUD (U.S. Often these things trickle through to staff.

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Fisheries and Stewardship: Lessons from Native Hawaiian Aquaculture

NonProfit Quarterly

They exist as part of the traditional Native Hawaiian infrastructure for biocultural (integrated natural and cultural) resource abundance, or ‘āina momona (which literally translates as “fat lands”). Āina momona stretch across and uplift the ecological and cultural functioning of the entire watershed, from mountaintop to nearshore.