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The Jackson Water Crisis, the Complexity of Environmental Racism

NonProfit Quarterly

The water crisis in Jackson is also part of a larger set of interconnected injustices that reveal the complexity of environmental racism. In that same year, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found the city had at least 2,300 unauthorized sanitary sewer overflows in the previous five years.

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Fighting for Cleaner Air in East Boston

NonProfit Quarterly

We are demanding equal protection and equal enforcement of environmental laws and regulations. Class, race, and ethnicity are key determinants of exposure to pollution and other environmental hazards, with working-class people and BIPOC folks disproportionately exposed relative to affluent White people.

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Taking Steps Toward Disability Inclusion in China

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The UN Disability and Development Report 2018 reveals that individuals with disabilities face fundamental challenges in nearly all aspects of life, including employment, health care, and education. Members also integrate the B Impact Assessment as a guideline to enhance the company’s social and environmental performance.

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The City That Was in a Forest—Atlanta’s Disappeared Trees and Black People: A Conversation with Hugh “H. D.” Hunter

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Yannick Lowery / www.severepaper.com Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s fall 2023 issue, “How Do We Create Home in the Future? Natives of the city have gone through false promises of positive urban development 4 —development that instead, in most cases, came at an unbearable cost.

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Wells Are Running Dry in Rural Communities of Color. Is a Fix in Sight?

NonProfit Quarterly

Rural communities of color were historically excluded from being annexed into cities with utility services, a phenomenon known as “ municipal underbounding ,” said Camille Pannu, an associate clinical professor at Columbia Law School who has studied water access issues in California. In 2017, the USDA helped to fund a $2.1

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100+ Fundraising Tasks for Your Nonprofit’s Board

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Many nonprofit organizations struggle to engage their board members with fundraising, especially the act of asking another person for money. Offer to support the development director, development committee, board chair, or ED in their fundraising tasks. Show up at fundraising events and help before, during, and after with tasks.

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The BIG List (100+) of Nonprofit Board Fundraising Tasks

Nonprofit Fixer

Many nonprofit organizations struggle to engage their board members with fundraising, especially the act of asking another person for money. Many nonprofits are looking for options to engage board members in fundraising without requiring direct solicitation. Only a few of these options involve directly asking for money.