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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. The narrative roots of attaching work requirements to public benefits have been developing since the racist and sexist ideologies of slavery in the United States.

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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

Image credit: Yannick Lowery / www.severepaper.com Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s fall 2023 issue, “How Do We Create Home in the Future? 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.

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Community Development Must Center Power Building: A San Francisco Story

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Matt Briney on unsplash.com This is the second article in NPQ ’s series titled Building Power, Fighting Displacement: Stories from Asian Pacific America, coproduced with the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development ( National CAPACD ). And it has made all the difference in avoiding displacement.