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Nonprofits Need Equity Too: The Case for Providing “Enterprise Capital”

NonProfit Quarterly

Credit: Morgan Housel on Unsplash The funding landscape for nonprofits has undergone a seismic shift. Todays model for funding nonprofits and social enterprises is fundamentally broken. This means providing funding with the purpose of investing in the capacity of nonprofits to invest in their own enterprises.

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From Policy to Power: Centering People by Supporting Tenant Unions

NonProfit Quarterly

Following the Great Recession, corporations and private equity firms aggressively purchased multifamily rental housing, single-family homes, and manufactured housing communities. During the Biden administration, pressure from a strong tenant-led federal campaign resulted in a White House blueprint for tenant protections.

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CDFIs Transform Rural Economies. We Just Need to Get Them There.

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The labor-intensive, extractive industries paradigm that has long powered rural economies—think agriculture, manufacturing, mining, timber—has fundamentally changed due to automation and globalization , and the search for new rural development models is coalescing around a new vision.

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From HeLa Cells to Digital Health: Navigating the Promises and Pitfalls of Modern Clinical Research

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Dall-E by OpenAI Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? This concept is becoming increasingly significant as policymakers develop data ethics frameworks that prioritize transparency, fairness, and accountability.

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How Nonprofits and Activists Can Oppose Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”

NonProfit Quarterly

Richard Wolff, cofounder of the nonprofit media organization Democracy at Work and professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, elaborated on the CBO data. A Nonprofit Response Greg Harrell-Edge, the founder and CEO at the nonprofit-network platform ProImpact Project, is fully aware of these facts.

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How to Power Good Union Jobs in the Clean Energy Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

When former Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su celebrated newly unionized workers on the floor of Alabamas New Flyer bus manufacturing plant in June 2024 , it marked one victory in a growing number of innovative efforts to ensure that no one is left behind in the Souths burgeoning clean energy economy.

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Organizing for the Long Haul: How to Build a Network for Land and Liberation

NonProfit Quarterly

Such is the case with many struggles against the present administration of President Donald Trump. Virtually everyone I know is finding ways to supportand celebrate the successes ofthe vital struggles being led by federal workers , nonprofit workers , and community development financial institutions.