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The Next 4 Years: Tapping Into Nonprofit Expertise

The NonProfit Times

Just a side comment on general failings of the nonprofit sector. The next administration should appointment numerous nonprofit executives into cabinet positions. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jonathan T.M. Where did all the fervor go? What happened to the get out the vote cash spent by both sides?

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The City That Was in a Forest—Atlanta’s Disappeared Trees and Black People: A Conversation with Hugh “H. D.” Hunter

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Yannick Lowery / www.severepaper.com Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s fall 2023 issue, “How Do We Create Home in the Future? Natives of the city have gone through false promises of positive urban development 4 —development that instead, in most cases, came at an unbearable cost.

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From Policy to Power: Centering People by Supporting Tenant Unions

NonProfit Quarterly

This could mean a slumlord of one building, or a private equity firm that owns multiple buildings in one city, or even Project-Based Section 8 buildings, under the control of HUD (the US Department of Housing and Urban Development). A tenant union can be neighborhood- or citywide, across multiple landlords.

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Community Development Must Center Power Building: A San Francisco Story

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Matt Briney on unsplash.com This is the second article in NPQ ’s series titled Building Power, Fighting Displacement: Stories from Asian Pacific America, coproduced with the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development ( National CAPACD ). And it has made all the difference in avoiding displacement.

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Scaling Impact: How Mergers Can Advance Housing in Communities

NonProfit Quarterly

One place where affordable housing differs from renewables is a relative lack of openness to mergers, which places many nonprofit housing firms in a potentially vulnerable position. From where I stand, as the leader of the National Housing Trust, a national housing nonprofit, I think it might. Could that change?

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How the State of the People Power Tour Is Building Power and Amplifying Black Voices

NonProfit Quarterly

As David notes, many of the agencies that have come under attack by the Trump administration and have had to undergo massive layoffs are those that employ a significant number of Black people. This includes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

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Federal Workers Are Organizing for Democracy—from the Inside Out

NonProfit Quarterly

The FUN is offering a direct response to sweeping purges, politicized restructuring, and the hollowing out of public institutions under President Donald Trump’s administration. Federal worker leadership can bring us far closer to that ideal. The largest effort to date is the Federal Unionists Network (FUN).