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Three Whys, Three Times (Blog)

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Arts & Culture Cities Civic Engagement Economic Development Education Energy Environment Food Health Human Rights Security Social Services Water & Sanitation Sectors Government, Nonprofit, Business, etc. Business Foundations Government Nonprofits & NGOs Social Enterprise Solutions Advocacy, Funding, Leadership, etc.

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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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Sharing Meals

Stanford Social Innovation Review

One path leads to this arable land being sold to a developer and turned into a small strip mall. First and foremost, food systems leadership offers opportunities for new relationships, connecting groups as diverse as farmers, emergency food providers, food waste management companies, and environmental justice advocates.

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Building Social Housing from the Ground Up: Grassroots Perspectives

NonProfit Quarterly

Most government housing funding is spent on subsidizing mortgages—primarily for the well-to-do. Civil rights, queer rights, Indigenous sovereignty, environmental justice, and organized labor movements have all long demanded secure, permanently affordable, and decommodified housing.

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” W hat would a nonprofit sector that pursued economic justice look like? The other five work for nonprofit intermediary organizations. Two of them—Dr.

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Building Our Power: Advancing Climate Justice through Regenerative Finance

NonProfit Quarterly

Practitioners developing financial practices that run counter to those centering monetary profit need to ask ourselves: how do we learn and take wisdom from trying different approaches and keep going, weaving these lessons into more liberatory versions of investing in our future? The term “regenerative finance” also gets thrown around a lot.

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Local Solutions to Federal Problems: Moving Climate Dollars to Communities

NonProfit Quarterly

For many community groups, especially in the environmental justice space, funding flowing from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Justice40 commitments, and other federal spending is hard to ignore. There are also opportunities to advance equity and establish more community-responsive co-governance in the process.