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Making Policy Work for Rural Communities: The Value of Community Voice

NonProfit Quarterly

This article is the second in the series Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. Public funding programs often include conditions that exceed the capabilities of high-poverty areas, such as requiring matching funds that these areas do not have. A different approach that centers community voice is sorely needed.

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The Jackson Water Crisis, the Complexity of Environmental Racism

NonProfit Quarterly

University of Mississippi professors Meagen Rosenthal and Anne Cafer explain that Black Americans are more likely to lack health insurance, a regular source of healthcare, or both. Instead, it looks as though the management and administrative duties associated with Jackson’s water are likely to become privatized.

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Methodist Unveils $181 Million Investment

The NonProfit Times

Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas, Inc. (MHM) MHM’s mission also includes its one-half ownership of Methodist Healthcare — the largest healthcare system in South Texas. million in community grants at least 174 nonprofits and municipalities during 2024. MHM) is investing $181.1 MHM allocates its $181.1M

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New York Brings Power to the People

NonProfit Quarterly

This is the second article from A Green New Deal on the Ground , a series produced with the Climate and Community Project, a progressive climate policy think tank developing cutting-edge research at the climate and inequality nexus. Such reforms are already underway. Communities in New York are already moving toward this goal.

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Philanthropy and Social Justice: A Conversation with Deepak Bhargava

NonProfit Quarterly

DB: A big premise of my work at JPB Foundation is that no matter what issue you care about—whether that be housing, healthcare, poverty, or climate justice, and they are all important—the fundamental issue at the root of all of them is who has power in society and who doesn’t. That’s a key area of interest and development for us.

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Shifting the Harmful Narratives and Practices of Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

The narrative roots of attaching work requirements to public benefits have been developing since the racist and sexist ideologies of slavery in the United States. That’s not career development. A job that pays less than childcare costs, imposes schedules on short notice, and doesn’t offer benefits cannot help people escape poverty.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

“RULER OF THE EARTH” BY YUET-LAM TSANG Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” How do social movements come to make the language of economic systems change their own? Nonprofits often play quasi-governmental roles.