NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Entering HLTH (pronounced “health”), an annual conference focused on the business of health—from healthcare startups to government agencies and insurance companies—feels as overwhelming as healthcare itself. We’re not talking about the lack of funding for our public health system. Hot Topics in Health Equity.

Health 86

Health Public and Social Policy Healthcare Finance 86

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 101

Leadership Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Culture 101

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2023

An example of this was profiled at NPQ in 2019, when we published a detailed study about the closure of a food co-op that had opened three years before in a Black community in Greensboro, NC. On its website, ILSR maintains a set of maps showing the overlay of poverty and store location in multiple metropolitan areas. Quite a bit.

Retail 124

Retail Food Law Governance 124

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

A local nonprofit, CATCH of Boise, began assisting them by providing them with food and water.” By February 2023, the family had been charged with multiple misdemeanors related to staying on federal land longer than allowed. Bad Public Policy “[Criminalization] is bad public policy.” They didn’t deserve this.”

Homelessness 105

Homelessness Law Public Policy Public and Nonprofit Management 105

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 117

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 117

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

22 Yet as racial justice movement leader Dedrick Asante-Muhammad has detailed, a race-neutral or “race-blind approach to addressing racial economic inequality has left the nation hobbled in public policy efforts to undo ongoing structural racism.” 23 William Gale, codirector of the Urban Brookings Tax Policy Center, concurs.

Public and Social Policy 76

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 76

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 24, 2023

Food, Bills, and Rent The 2021 expanded child tax credit—passed by Congress in March 2021 as part of the American Rescue Plan Act —was as monumental as it was brief. The fact that child poverty was then essentially doubled again, overnight, as the tax credit was allowed to expire at the end of 2021, received less fanfare.)

Public and Social Policy 89

Public and Social Policy Poverty Children Universities 89