NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Public policy, however, can make a tremendous difference. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress temporarily implemented a child tax credit initiative that in 2021 cut child poverty nearly in half, lifting millions out of poverty, according to a US Census report. This changed for one year only in 2021.

Poverty 88

Poverty Children Law Food 88

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 9, 2024

This issue lingers like a vestige of the conditions that followed abolition, after which the government failed to provide the kinds of education, labor, and other supports necessary to transition from a life of enslavement to one of agency, independence, and prosperity. Per the World Bank’s poverty line threshold, 18.6

Public and Social Policy 61

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Law Poverty 61

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Often, the very same nonprofit that is advocating for social justice policy may pay its own workers poverty-level wages. Worker-owned co-ops and benefit corporations are additional public policy frameworks for a just economy. Sometimes, nonprofits advance economic justice; sometimes, they are part of the problem.

Public and Social Policy 108

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 108

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Wealth differences widen dramatically as Black Americans become more educated. In next week’s final installment of Locked Out, we’ll examine both private and public solutions to achieve an equitable housing economy for all. Instead, property inheritance was done informally, leaving no legal record of ownership.

Public Policy 86

Public Policy Poverty Health Associations 86

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

percent poverty rate (as of 2001). To participate, community members can purchase an ownership share in the enterprise, contingent on completing an eight-hour financial education course. These laws give residents the first right to purchase multifamily residences (at market rates) whenever a property comes up for sale.

Public and Nonprofit Management 89

Public and Nonprofit Management Participation and motivation Nonprofit governance and management Poverty 89

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 1, 2022

After a decade of organizing to move debt cancellation from the margins to the center of national policy debates, the movement to cancel student debt continues to gain ground, as NPQ’s Rithika Ramamurthy documented earlier this year. Education is promised as a path out of poverty—but it’s also a means of extraction under racial capitalism.

Public and Social Policy 109

Public and Social Policy Education Education Public and Nonprofit Management 109

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

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?

Leadership 95

Leadership Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Culture 95