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The Next 4 Years: Tapping Into Nonprofit Expertise

The NonProfit Times

Secretary of Homeland Security Jacob Wood Co-Founder & Executive Board Chairman Team Rubicon Team Rubicon became one of the most impactful nonprofits under Wood’s leadership. Team Rubicon is widely known for its innovation and unique culture. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jonathan T.M.

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The Pitfalls of Personal Judgment

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Yet it can also create space for bias: familiarity can be derived from a variety of factors—the words someone uses, their background, conjugation, or even eye color—but it’s often connected to culture, ethnicity, and/or traditional access to social capital.

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Antionette Kerr : How I Became a Self-Care Radical

NonProfit Hub

I credit them for my fierce work ethic, which fit right in with the “do more with less” mindset of nonprofit work, but as I rose through the ranks of nonprofit leadership, I wasn’t quite prepared for the toll it took on my mental, physical and spiritual well-being. At a time when HUD (U.S. Often these things trickle through to staff.

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The City That Was in a Forest—Atlanta’s Disappeared Trees and Black People: A Conversation with Hugh “H. D.” Hunter

NonProfit Quarterly

Natives of the city have gone through false promises of positive urban development 4 —development that instead, in most cases, came at an unbearable cost. This city of beautiful Black people and culture used to be in a forest. We have so much to learn.

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Community Development Must Center Power Building: A San Francisco Story

NonProfit Quarterly

Heeding the lessons learned from Manilatown and the I-Hotel, the leadership of CRC recognized the need to change the rules of the physical environment in San Francisco’s Chinatown. It is why Chinatown today is still a place of residence, business, and tourism and a source of community, cultural capital, and economic mobility.

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Urban Development Needs Systems Thinking

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Their ongoing journeys have surfaced four lessons that can help other cities move beyond conventional planning pitfalls, and adopt a more responsive, inclusive, and sustainable approach to urban development. However, this approach overlooked the broader social and cultural factors influencing young peoples decisions to leave.

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Federal Workers Are Organizing for Democracy—from the Inside Out

NonProfit Quarterly

We are speaking out in our own names and our own stories,” Paul Osadebe, a FUN organizer and trial attorney with the Department of Housing and Urban Development told NPQ. A Culture of Courage and Joy The FUN was created not only to organize but to counter fear. Federal worker leadership can bring us far closer to that ideal.