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Learning That Changes Lives: Local Leader Shares Journey to Nonprofit Success

NonProfit Leadership Center

when she thinks about the Certificate in Nonprofit Management graduate program at the University of Tampa. While I was practicing law, I volunteered in many different capacities and served on several nonprofit boards. Erin took some time off from practicing law to travel. Empowering. Collaborative. Transformative.

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Movements Are Leading the Way: Reenvisioning and Redesigning Laws and Governance for a Just Energy Utility Transition

NonProfit Quarterly

Energy is increasingly managed as part of a broader commons, where resources and land are shared and mineral inputs to renewable energy and storage like lithium and cobalt are minimized. Moreover, a significant proportion of utility governing boards comprises utility workers and frontline community members.

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Work Requirements Are Rooted in the History of Slavery

NonProfit Quarterly

In 1996, Democratic President Bill Clinton signed welfare reform into law , which ended the entitlement to cash aid and introduced time-limited benefits tied to work requirements. Breaking these laws could mean fines, arrest, or sentences—forcing them back into unpaid labor on plantations.

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Homeless, Then Shot by Federal Police

NonProfit Quarterly

In total, more than a dozen law enforcement officials were waiting, undercover or in hiding, to surprise the Roberts family. With nowhere else to go, they took the only housing they had—two campers—and moved onto a series of stops on federal public land managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the US Forest Service.

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The Jackson Water Crisis, the Complexity of Environmental Racism

NonProfit Quarterly

Power and Politics in the Fight to Control Jackson’s Water In the wake of the water crises, the ongoing policy and management issues surrounding water use in Jackson kept the town in national headlines for more than a year. Yet, despite the mayor’s efforts to create a path for continued city governance, his pleas have gone unheard.

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Nonprofits as Battlegrounds for Democracy

NonProfit Quarterly

1 The Dawn of the Nonprofit Sector Dunning begins the history of the nonprofit sector in the 1960s, when protests against discrimination prompted political leaders to look for solutions to persistent poverty. 9 The rents collected by CDCs strengthened market approaches to poverty, encouraging what we now may refer to as sustainability.

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Can a New Social Contract Advance in Minnesota?

NonProfit Quarterly

million children out of poverty. None made it into law. By early 2023, however, Governor Tim Walz was declaring , “Now is the time to go bold” and pledged to “lead the nation in ending child poverty.” A few measures, particularly in labor law, mark even greater shifts. Those gains are already wiped away). Universal pre-K?