NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

percent poverty rate (as of 2001). This farm supports 20 immigrant and refugee farmers and emerging food entrepreneurs. A particularly useful tool would be community “opportunity to purchase” legislation, which could function like tenant “ first right to purchase ” laws. Purchasing land was, in a sense, the easiest step.

Public and Nonprofit Management 97

Public and Nonprofit Management Participation and motivation Nonprofit governance and management Poverty 97

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Adimika Arthur, Founding Executive Director of HealthTech4Medicaid, then led a discussion of the ways that public policy and convening intersect with these issues. What impact can those shifts have without broader systemic reforms to address racism and poverty?

Health 88

Health Public and Social Policy Healthcare Finance 88

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 102

Leadership Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Culture 102

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In total, more than a dozen law enforcement officials were waiting, undercover or in hiding, to surprise the Roberts family. Before they were living in two campers on federal public land, the Roberts family shared an apartment in Emmett, ID, where Judy Roberts worked in a factory.

Homelessness 108

Homelessness Law Public Policy Public and Nonprofit Management 108

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 127

Retail Food Law Governance 127

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 120

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 120

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

This was not so often the case in the 1960s, when civil rights laws were passed and long-term employment, at least in unionized sectors, was the norm; it is the case today. 23 William Gale, codirector of the Urban Brookings Tax Policy Center, concurs. Are poverty wages less miserable because your boss is Black?

Public and Social Policy 76

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