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The EPA Launches Final Strategy on Lead Mitigation

NonProfit Quarterly

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , the children most at risk of lead exposure are under six years of age and can come in contact with lead through chipping paint in older homes, imported food or cosmetics, drinking water from lead plumbing or pipes, and even the soil around older buildings or roads.

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The Call of Leadership Now: BIPOC Leaders in a Syndemic Era

NonProfit Quarterly

This includes strategies of community organizing, public policy and advocacy, civic engagement, cultural/arts organizing, land/food sovereignty, healing justice, and more. How do we shift scarcity mindsets that are rooted in deep and real experiences with poverty and oppression?

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

Are poverty wages less miserable because your boss is Black? 39 One is the “hospice worker”—many who are employed in human service nonprofits and help people survive the ravages of capitalism (such as by operating food banks) work in this lane. 46 Education in community economics is also key. 2 (Summer 2023): 22–33.