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The Past and Future of Black Co-ops: A Conversation with Jessica Gordon Nembhard

NonProfit Quarterly

From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world. SD: You talk about historical waves of Black co-op development in the United States.

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From HeLa Cells to Digital Health: Navigating the Promises and Pitfalls of Modern Clinical Research

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Dall-E by OpenAI Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? This concept is becoming increasingly significant as policymakers develop data ethics frameworks that prioritize transparency, fairness, and accountability.

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How the Climate Crisis Impacts People Who Are Unhoused

NonProfit Quarterly

Thinking Beyond Shelters What can nonprofit organizations and other groups do to help? Working to create or promote awareness and information assistance systems is certainly a place where nonprofits can step in. Working to create or promote awareness and information assistance systems is certainly a place where nonprofits can step in.

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How to Power Good Union Jobs in the Clean Energy Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

And a large portion of these dollars were disbursed before the new administration of Donald Trump took office. wage floor, affordable housing on the development site, and a pipeline to construction careers for people with barriers to employment. But they need long-term support from philanthropy, nonprofit partners, and labor unions.

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Providence Nonprofits Reeling from Funding Cuts and Threats (And, Organizations—What You Can Do!)

NonProfit Quarterly

Theyre all nonprofits. To say that many nonprofits would cease to exist without [federal] funding is putting it mildly. Recent executive orders by the Trump administration are touching off fear and uncertainty among nonprofits in Providence and other cities across the country. And theyre under attack.

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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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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.