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The Next 4 Years: Tapping Into Nonprofit Expertise

The NonProfit Times

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jonathan T.M. Secretary of Education Janet Murguía President and CEO UnidosUS Murguía was executive vice chancellor for university relations at the University of Kansas, where she oversaw KU’s internal and external relations with the public. Department of the Treasury.

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How the Climate Crisis Impacts People Who Are Unhoused

NonProfit Quarterly

Providing populations experiencing homelessness with access to water, supplies, and culturally appropriate education about weather-related dangers, warning signs, and steps to be taken, the report reads. Trainings and strategies should be tailored to [the] local population.

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Federal Workers Are Organizing for Democracy—from the Inside Out

NonProfit Quarterly

We are speaking out in our own names and our own stories,” Paul Osadebe, a FUN organizer and trial attorney with the Department of Housing and Urban Development told NPQ. When institutions are gutted, programs shuttered, and colleagues fired en masse , silence is no longer an option. “We That message has reverberated.

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Trans Refugees: What Trans People Need to Know About Finding Safety Abroad

NonProfit Quarterly

His administration revoked federal recognition of nonbinary and transgender identities, reinstated a military ban , signed directives restricting discussions of LGBTQ+ topics in education, as well as an anti-trans sports ban , and targeted gender-affirming care for kids.

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How States Can Link Up to Support Human Rights

NonProfit Quarterly

The Threat Human rights encompass the political rights of speech, voting, and liberty, as well as the economic human rights to adequate food, housing, education, health, income security, and work. Board of Education , complying only when federalized troops appeared on local schoolhouse steps. This is far different.

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When It Comes to Promoting Prosperity, Production Beats Consumption

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Between 2016 and 2019 , nearly half of global giving by US foundations went to health, while environment and human rights accounted for roughly 11 percent each, followed by agriculture and education. Various others work in the space in between, like Charter Cities Institute on urban development and economic clusters.

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Whose Capital? Our Capital! The Power of Workers’ Pensions for the Common Good

NonProfit Quarterly

This is the reality today—but workers and communities have an opportunity to align around their shared interest in thriving communities and to steer where their money goes: affordable healthcare, housing, and education; just and sustainable environmental policies; and so much more. Pension Funds: Whose Capital? Our Capital!