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Homeless, Then Shot by Federal Police

NonProfit Quarterly

No humane government would have turned to forcible and violent arrest to punish a family like the Robertses for trying to survive and stay together.” Bad Public Policy “[Criminalization] is bad public policy.” The family was evicted and became homeless. It’s bad for the homeless people it impacts.

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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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Using ‘Purple Glasses’ to Achieve Gender Equity in Mexico

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Some years ago, we participated in an activity aimed at raising awareness of gender bias among hiring managers. Thirty people attended, including managers and members of an academic gender committee we were on. The majority of these students are women and the first in their families to access higher education.

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Cancelling Student Debt Is Necessary for Racial Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

For decades, student loans have been a huge moneymaker for the federal government, which holds over 90 percent of all student debt in the US. Black women struggle to manage repayment. Racist public policy created it, and we will need bold structural solutions to fix it.” Black men owed 111 percent of the amount borrowed.

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The Call of Leadership Now: BIPOC Leaders in a Syndemic Era

NonProfit Quarterly

Leaders moving work through nonprofit organizations are also contending with the “great resignation” and major shifts in the workforce; 3 unprocessed grief from the pandemic and years of escalating racial violence; and short-lived performative responses by philanthropy to the events of 2020.

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Leading Together for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For a social sector organization or any other system to do this, it must ask: Are we prepared to make room for people to practice leadership in ways that differ from conventional management styles? Take the Center for Law and Social Policy , a nonprofit committed to reducing poverty and increasing economic opportunity.

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Why the Social Sector Needs an Impact Registry

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For decades, nonprofits, governments, philanthropies, and corporations have been dogged by how to measure social impact. Every nonprofit is left figuring out its own way to measure and report impact. ” Do-it-yourself measurement certainly is not good for cash-strapped nonprofits, who are drowning in data.