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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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Homeless, Then Shot by Federal Police

NonProfit Quarterly

Before they were living in two campers on federal public land, the Roberts family shared an apartment in Emmett, ID, where Judy Roberts worked in a factory. Years of reporting has documented the rise of families living on public land. Bad Public Policy “[Criminalization] is bad public policy.”

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Leading Together for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Sida Ly-Xiong After completing a leadership fellowship program for women of color, a program participant accepted a position as director of citizen engagement and education at a state public health agency in the United States. They drive change through networks and relationships, and use the power and influence that emerges.

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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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Cancelling Student Debt Is Necessary for Racial Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

As a result of decades of state disinvestment from public education, deregulation of the lending industry, and financialization, student debt has ballooned. Education is promised as a path out of poverty—but it’s also a means of extraction under racial capitalism. Black women struggle to manage repayment. The US’ $1.74