NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 23, 2025

From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world. As for governance, there are a couple of different versions. That is required by law.

Insurance 91

Insurance Non-Profits Governance Finance 91

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

In our 2023 study, our researchers found that the four lowest-cost market categories had median sale prices ranging from $45,000 to $154,000compared to a city median of about $250,000and above-average poverty rates ranging from 23 to 49 percent in a city with the unfortunate distinction of being the poorest big city.

Construction 81

Construction Public and Social Policy Finance Poverty 81

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 24, 2025

3 By law, these must remain anonymous when used. 11 Unique barriers to care, including stigma vis--vis mental health, language discrepancies, and poverty, put Latinx people in the United States at higher risk of receiving inadequate treatment than the broader population. 10 Only 35.1 24 Meanwhile, as of 2022, 17.1 Arnett et al.,

Race and Ethnicity 85

Race and Ethnicity Healthcare Health Medical 85

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 27, 2025

percent of people in the United States were poor or low-income (earning between poverty-line income and twice that amount) in 2018. An article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association lists poverty as the nations fourth leading cause of death. And homelessness is rising.

Homelessness 105

Homelessness Poverty Public and Social Policy Urban development 105

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 3, 2025

An executive order (14238)calls for reducing the CDFI Fundto the minimum presence and function required by law. In contrast, CDFIs aim to achieve community development outcomes , such as reducing poverty, increasing homeownership, or stimulating small businesses in distressed areas. What impact this order will have remains unclear.

Finance 85

Finance Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management 85

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 8, 2025

Public bankscreated by governments and chartered to serve the public interestoffer a powerful model to advance racial equity, public accountability, and community self-determination. The same holds true for credit unions, which are barred by state law from holding any public deposits, thanks to bank lobbying.

Finance 136

Finance Poverty Law Governance 136

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 30, 2025

Making Sense of the Backlash NCRCs conference, as has been noted in NPQ before, attracts a broad audiencein addition to community organizers, it attracts bankers (especially from community development departments) and even government officials. What we are witnessing is a tremendous backlash against what those protests exposed.

Governance 85

Governance Law Finance Community Development 85

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 10, 2025

Many find inspiration in the story of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American cancer patient whose tumor cells were taken without her consent in 1951leading to a multibillion dollar industry, while her family and descendants dealt with poverty. Without regulation, this commercialization could worsen inequities in clinical research.

Race and Ethnicity 73

Race and Ethnicity Health Ethics Public and Social Policy 73

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 28, 2024

This law requires hospitals to conduct screenings for emergency medical conditions when requested by patients and to either provide stabilizing treatment or arrange for transfer to another facility if they cannot offer such care, or if the patient requests it.

Medical 121

Medical Healthcare Law Health 121

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world. The government said what should be done, and it was done. Could you expand on this?

Medical 92

Medical Nonprofit governance and management Healthcare Public and Nonprofit Management 92

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 19, 2024

On a rainy day, Echol Cole and Robert Walker sought refuge inside the truck because segregation laws forbid them from sheltering inside a building. Racism and poverty were the forms of violence that made Cole and Walker vulnerable and ultimately led to their deaths. Contempt for poverty is violence. Ghetto housing is violence.

Poverty 121

Poverty Medical Insurance Healthcare 121

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 2, 2025

Meanwhile, Trumps executive order dismantling diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives within the federal government eliminates DEI considerations in federal hiring, promotions, and performance reviews, aiming to prioritize merit-based decisions. For poverty and climate action, none of the targets are on track.

Public and Social Policy 97

Public and Social Policy Energy Poverty Governance 97

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 14, 2025

But the Supreme Court is weighing whether people who rely on Medicaid for their health insurance have that right, and if they dois it enforceable by law? A Free-Choice-of-Provider Requirement Medicaid operates as a partnership between the federal government and the states. Thats the key question at the heart of a case, Medina v.

Healthcare 110

Healthcare Law Health Insurance 110

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 25, 2025

Additionally, the federal government has refused to provide reimbursement costs for work that was already done in good faith under the cooperative agreement, creating significant financial strain for the organization. The biggest impact is were going into the summer, and were laying people off. So why right now?

Law 105

Law Health Poverty Governance 105

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 4, 2025

The administration has threatened nonprofits with revoked tax-exempt status, and is pursuing civil and even criminal investigations of nonprofitsnot for any proven wrongdoing, but for work prioritized by local communities that is at odds with the administrations ideology. “These actions arent about government efficiency or about reform.

Governance 102

Governance Nonprofits Law Health 102

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

That said, it remains unclear how aggressive the South African government will be in response to the recent attacks from Trump. Not to be outdone was first buddy South African-born US billionaire Elon Musk, who claimed on social media that the South African government is openly pushing for genocide of White people in South Africa.

Health 109

Health Public and Social Policy Healthcare Law 109

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 8, 2025

From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world. Theres no way philanthropy can meet this moment without reimagining governance.

Public and Social Policy 79

Public and Social Policy Philanthropy Governance Foundations 79

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 11, 2025

From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world. In Poland, we had the Law and Justice Party, after an eight-year reign, similarly lose power.

Law 63

Law Governance Communication Civil Society 63

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Donya Khadem, counsel for the Equal Protection Initiative at Legal Defense Fund, told NPQ that the three organizations represented in the lawsuit are direct service providers whose staff are in the community every day seeing and directly addressing people who have lived experiences with health challenges, poverty, joblessness.

Nonprofits 115

Nonprofits Poverty Governance Health 115

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Many of these policies came from federal anti-discrimination laws passed following the civil rights struggle of the 1960s and were later expanded to include people with disabilities. Some US companies paid people with disabilities 22 cents an hour in 2024 and were cited for doing so. percent of federal workers report having a disability.

Law 121

Law Governance Health Education 121

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 29, 2023

Image Credit: Josiah S on istock.com Founded in March 2009, the Oath Keepers are an anti-government far-right militia group comprising former law enforcement, first responders, and former military who pledge to defend the United States against government tyranny at all costs. Actual law enforcement looked the other way.

Governance 134

Governance Disaster Relief Law Civil Society 134

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2023

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States engaged in an innovative policy experiment: for one year, the federal government expanded the existing child tax credit—making it available to families with little or no earnings, increasing the credit amount, and providing monthly payments instead of an annual payment at tax time.

Poverty 115

Poverty Children Social Policy Food 115

NonProfit Leadership Center

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

After studying finance in college and then receiving her law degree from Florida State University, Erin practiced law for 13 years — first as in-house counsel for a multi-family housing company, then in private practice at a law firm, and finally as a prosecutor at the state attorney’s office.

Nonprofit governance and management 239

Nonprofit governance and management Law Universities Nonprofit Management 239

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 19, 2024

By Nagatsugu Asato & Nobuo Shiga The legacy of colonialism has fostered structural discrimination worldwide, creating cycles of alienation and poverty among subjugated and marginalized communities. Okinawa’s poverty rate is about 35 percent, which is twice the national average. percent of the country’s total land area.

Public and Social Policy 140

Public and Social Policy Poverty Construction Law 140

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Image credit: Barbara Olsen on Pexels If you want to reduce poverty, cash matters. Springboard to Opportunities —the organization we both work for—began operations in 2013 with the goal to break cycles of generational poverty that are particularly persistent in Black communities.

Public and Social Policy 134

Public and Social Policy Poverty Public Policy Governance 134

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The other is that global philanthropy itself is under threat as South African “populist” opposition advocates for so-called “ foreign agent laws.” Similar laws have already rapidly spread across Europe and Central Asia , yet South Africa has avoided them so far. Today, that democracy is fraying. With an estimated 55.5

Philanthropy 97

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Poverty Civil Society 97

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 6, 2024

Yet it is precisely at this moment, when democracy is being challenged from all sides, and when the limitations of our nearly 250 years of governing are coming to a breaking point, that we must rise up and fulfill this mandate. Trust in government is at near-record lows because none have yet delivered for all. This work is urgent.

Public and Social Policy 126

Public and Social Policy Governance Nonprofit Administration and Development Poverty 126

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The War on Drugs Is Personal The War on Drugs has been a half-century-long, concerted, militarized campaign led by the US government to enforce prohibitions on the importation, manufacture, use, sale, and distribution of substances deemed to be illegal, advancing a punitive rather than a public health approach to drug use.

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Law Psychology Poverty 132

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In 2019, the US Census Bureau also reported that, after adjusting for the cost of essentials such as housing, gas, and electricity, California had the highest level of “functional poverty” of all 50 states, at 18.2 If previous efforts to make employee ownership a priority of state government funding were stymied, what could be done?

Public and Social Policy 142

Public and Social Policy Law Poverty Healthcare 142

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Despite living near Yale, an elite Ivy League university, the people I knew were working hardreally hardand still struggling to get by, often trapped in cycles of poverty. Even as we worked inside the halls of government to secure fundingit was vital to also build a broad coalition. Changing state policy is challenging.

Poverty 98

Poverty Public and Social Policy Children Governance 98

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

For the last few years, there have been major clashes between Mississippi’s state government and its majority-Black capital city. Yet, despite the mayor’s efforts to create a path for continued city governance, his pleas have gone unheard. This effort, the Nation argues, is creating another pipeline to criminalization.

Environmental 110

Environmental Health Poverty Governance 110

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

RB: The last installment of the report uplifts how mass incarceration exacerbates poverty. Issues of poverty and racial bias in the South are super salient and continue to be a problem.” That hasn’t become law, but that’s the momentum that’s happening around that issue. There was this zero-sum game mindset.

Public and Social Policy 128

Public and Social Policy Poverty Law Education 128

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? Obviously, the only entity with the assets and power structure to move this needle is the national government.

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 132

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Consider Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank (and leader of Bangladesh’s interim government ), who brought the idea for lending to the poor to mainstream banks in the early 1980s.The banks challenged Yunus to prove it could work, and he did —first in one town, then five. Why Employee Ownership So, what is employee ownership?

Public and Social Policy 138

Public and Social Policy Finance Nonprofit governance and management Non-Profits 138

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Scott served seven years in prison after being arrested on federal drug charges shortly after obtaining his law degree from Louisiana State University in 1994. They don’t want to talk about poverty. Both men experienced how easy it is for young Black men to be swept up in the criminal legal system.

Poverty 139

Poverty Health Education Education 139

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Wage theft is not a legal term but rather a term used by advocates, attorneys, and policymakers when describing any action by employers that deprives a worker of receiving wages they are entitled to under the law. The law also strengthened workers’ options for recourse when employers fail to comply with these provisions.

Public and Social Policy 105

Public and Social Policy Law Governance Construction 105

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 29, 2024

In this series thus far, our colleagues have explored what this future requires of each of us , and what it could begin to look like for governments. Such a foundational change will require a concurrent shift in nonprofit institutions, which have evolved alongside the government and market-based economy in the United States.

Nonprofit governance and management 134

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Governance Nonprofits 134