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How Nonprofits Can Leverage Their Financial Relationships to Advance Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

Or think about a housing nonprofit realizing that its primary bank engages in predatory lending practices that push families into homelessness. In an era of constrained funding and growing inequity, nonprofits increasingly recognize financial systems role in perpetuating or alleviating social injustices. And why should they?

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How to Interrupt the Public Funds to Private Profits Pipeline: A California Story

NonProfit Quarterly

This happens daily when local governments park public funds in banks. If governments can work with a publicly owned bank that makes modest profits and reinvests those profits in the communities that own it, they can participate in a restorative local economy. This isnt surprising since there is only one in the United States today.

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A Political Roadmap to Social Housing: How Do We Win?

NonProfit Quarterly

Part of this work involves connecting people with lived experiences of homelessness, precarious rentals, and manufactured housing with homeowners fearing gentrification and displacement. This model offers political education opportunities that can produce lasting homeowner voter support. These all are interconnected and dynamic.

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“We’re Not Meant to Do Life Alone”: The Invisible Network of Nonprofits

NonProfit Quarterly

Credit: Ansel Huang on Unsplash Humans of Nonprofits is a storytelling series that explores how nonprofits shape and support the lives of everyday people. Each story shares an authentic, lived experience, revealing the many ways nonprofits intersect with individuals across all backgrounds, beliefs, and communities.

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Federal Funding Freeze Could Decimate Nonprofits

NonProfit Quarterly

This order is a potential 5-alarm fire for nonprofits and the people and communities they serve. Federal grants make up about a third of nonprofit funding through direct grants, state pass-throughs, and other mechanisms for everything from scientific research to education to arts and culture to critical services for children and families.

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How the Climate Crisis Impacts People Who Are Unhoused

NonProfit Quarterly

But libraries, which are often overstretched and fighting to maintain funding, cant do everything thats needed to address homelessness, especially as the climate crisis worsens already difficult situations. Of course, its more than just the direct impact of weathering a natural disaster that can thrust people into homelessness.

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Resiliency Strategies for Nonprofits in Times of Political and Financial Instability

NonProfit Quarterly

The nonprofit world must prepare for seismic events like this. The bizarre incident was one of hundreds of similar scenes of confusion, fear, and uncertainty across the nonprofit world after the attempted federal funding freeze. The nonprofit world must prepare for seismic events like this, as more are sure to come.