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Whose Capital? Our Capital! The Power of Workers’ Pensions for the Common Good

NonProfit Quarterly

Workers need to have greater control over how the trillions of dollars of their deferred compensation are invested, so as to protect their own beneficiaries, manage risk for sustainable returns, provide revenue for jobs that provide public services for communities, and ensure these investments don’t undermine workers’ rights or hurt the environment.

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Community Development Must Center Power Building: A San Francisco Story

NonProfit Quarterly

Chinese American attorney Ed Lee (who later served as mayor from 2011 until his untimely death while in office in 2017), with the Asian Law Caucus, supported PYRIA leaders, like Chang Jok Lee, to organize the city’s largest sustained public housing rent strike in response to unsafe conditions that contributed to the murder of one of its residents.

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“Educational Purposes”: Nonprofit Land as a Vital Site of Struggle

NonProfit Quarterly

Given my work, it specifically focuses on university-driven urban development. The notion of “smart” has often focused on technological innovations and sustainable design, and I asked: What about the people—the diverse and marginalized communities that struggle to maintain sustainable lives in changing urban locales?

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Federal Workers Organize to Counter “Deferred Resignation” Memo

NonProfit Quarterly

On January 28 , the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) sent more than two million federal workers a so-called deferred resignation email memo offer, with a deadline of February 6 , as part of an effort to reduce the size of the federal workforce. It is very important those [laws] get enforced, he said.

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Project 2025: What Does It Mean for Racial and Economic Justice?

NonProfit Quarterly

Housing: The Project 2025 chapter on housing is authored by a familiar name, none other than the former US Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson. Two things are true: 1) A lot of what is written will never make it into law, and 2) too much of it may well. Occasionally, one finds an interesting wrinkle.