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

NonProfit Quarterly

How do we shift scarcity mindsets that are rooted in deep and real experiences with poverty and oppression? For more on this, see Michael Haber, “The New Activist Non-Profits: Four Models Breaking from the Non-Profit Industrial Complex,” University of Miami Law Review 73, 3 (Spring 2019): 863–954.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

This was not so often the case in the 1960s, when civil rights laws were passed and long-term employment, at least in unionized sectors, was the norm; it is the case today. Are poverty wages less miserable because your boss is Black? 28 Yet an approach that prioritizes “Black faces in high places,” Pérez insists, is insufficient.