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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

We are living through a syndemic—a time of multiple crises causing seismic economic, political, environmental, technological, and social shifts, which are long from being settled. In 2016, six women of color in the Colorado organizing and social justice movement ecosystem came together and formed Transformative Leadership for Change.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

“RULER OF THE EARTH” BY YUET-LAM TSANG Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” How do social movements come to make the language of economic systems change their own? We think it can. We think it can.