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. What would it take to fully fund the human capital, governance, and advocacy costs of nonprofits? Worker-owned co-ops and benefit corporations are additional public policy frameworks for a just economy.

Public and Social Policy 126

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 126

EveryAction

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Lambda Legal Lambda Legal is the oldest and largest national legal organization whose mission is to achieve full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and those with HIV through impact litigation, education and public policy work. Southern Poverty Law Center.

Public and Social Policy 76

Public and Social Policy Law Education Education 76

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Advocacy and organizing for racially equitable housing policies is a cornerstone of building a just housing system in the United States. FHO: What progress are you seeing in public- and private-sector investment in high-quality, equitable housing solutions at the local, state, and federal levels?

Public and Social Policy 104

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Poverty Health 104

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 84

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 84

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 24, 2023

The new benefit reached some 60 million children (including 26 million children previously ineligible for the full benefit) and was widely credited with cutting child poverty in the United States by nearly half—overnight. The relatively small cash infusions, the researchers found, served to significantly reduce household hunger.

Public and Social Policy 96

Public and Social Policy Poverty Children Universities 96

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

From poverty wages to sky-high rents to environmental disasters, many of the crises we face today are linked to outsized and entrenched corporate power. To counter corporations’ outsized and unchecked power grab, we need more than public policy fights, community benefits agreements, and harm reduction.

Public Policy 140

Public Policy Governance Non-Profits Law 140

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 1, 2022

For decades, student loans have been a huge moneymaker for the federal government, which holds over 90 percent of all student debt in the US. Education is promised as a path out of poverty—but it’s also a means of extraction under racial capitalism. Racist public policy created it, and we will need bold structural solutions to fix it.”

Public and Social Policy 126

Public and Social Policy Education Education Public and Nonprofit Management 126