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Supporting Diverse Entrepreneurs for Climate Justice

Stanford Social Innovation Review

New commercial and development opportunities need to reach the communities most impacted by climate change. He explains, “The hardest thing to do is develop on tribal lands because there’s such a unique aspect to getting consent and getting approval, which has to be communicated back to investors.” degrees Celsius).

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Profit at What Cost? An Interview with Ray Suarez, host of Going for Broke

NonProfit Quarterly

RR: How did the partnerships behind the podcast develop, and how did those partnerships inform the podcast’s objectives? Someone who is dealing with administrative duties—that is, the heavy load of paperwork and record keeping that is put on people when they try to acquire the benefits to which they are entitled by law.

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” W hat would a nonprofit sector that pursued economic justice look like? The other five work for nonprofit intermediary organizations. Two of them—Dr.

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Recognizing the Full Spectrum of Black Women’s Views on Homeownership Is Key to Progress

NonProfit Quarterly

The legal scholar who developed the concept of intersectionality, Kimberlé Crenshaw, explains the limitations of viewing oppression using an “either/or” view instead of a “yes, and.”. Specifically, policymakers do not consider Black women living in poverty when developing programs that help people purchase and retain ownership of a home.

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A New (Renewable) Energy Tyranny

NonProfit Quarterly

But the key difference is that they represent very different socio-economic energy development models and very different impacts on our communities and living ecosystems. This is an administrative process without any accountability except to the governor. Governor Newsom immediately came to the rescue.

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Social Housing: How a New Generation of Activists Are Reinventing Housing

NonProfit Quarterly

And while Karl Marx-Hof is a mandatory stop, what is actually more interesting is the broader system of social housing it exemplifies, which includes public housing, limited equity cooperatives, public developers, inclusive urban and environmental planning, excellent public transit, and extensive regulation and taxation of the private market.