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Homeless, Then Shot by Federal Police

NonProfit Quarterly

In total, more than a dozen law enforcement officials were waiting, undercover or in hiding, to surprise the Roberts family. No humane government would have turned to forcible and violent arrest to punish a family like the Robertses for trying to survive and stay together.”

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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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How Dollar Store Kudzu Consumes Local Economies—And What to Do About It

NonProfit Quarterly

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.

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Ancestor in the Making: A Future Where Philanthropy’s Legacy Is Stopping the Bad and Building the New

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? Two things changed how wealth was managed. Reshaping the Way We Live in the Midst of Climate Crisis.” 2 It has been edited for publication here.

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Can a New Social Contract Advance in Minnesota?

NonProfit Quarterly

A new social contract —that is, a structural change in the relationship of the public to the government, the 1930s New Deal being the quintessential US example—seemed to just maybe be at hand. million children out of poverty. None made it into law. Those gains are already wiped away). Paid family leave? Universal pre-K?

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Coffee Companies That Emphasize Hiring Disabled Workers Fall Short

NonProfit Quarterly

When I asked for the bill to be corrected, a nondisabled manager quickly came to help her. When I told him I had ordered a butter croissant, the manager stepped in again, telling me that the cashier made a mistake and apologizing for not having any butter croissants left. By law, they are allowed to pay lower than the minimum wage.

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Where Does the Money Go in Environmental Grantmaking?

NonProfit Quarterly

Foundations manage risk by awarding money to well-known organizations with good track records, and in turn, environmental organizations ensure stable revenue by building large funding relationships with many foundations, keeping their money spigot flowing. million to management and technical assistance, $76.7 million.