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From Owing to Owning: How Communities Can Control Commercial Land

NonProfit Quarterly

percent poverty rate (as of 2001). This farm supports 20 immigrant and refugee farmers and emerging food entrepreneurs. Paul, tells Duranti-Martinez, for public policy to go beyond funding community ownership “experiments.” Purchasing land was, in a sense, the easiest step.

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HLTH 2022: Obstacles to Health Equity

NonProfit Quarterly

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?

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The Call of Leadership Now: BIPOC Leaders in a Syndemic Era

NonProfit Quarterly

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?

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Homeless, Then Shot by Federal Police

NonProfit Quarterly

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.”

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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. Quite a bit.

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

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.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

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.