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The Pitfalls of Personal Judgment

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Logan McDonnell As a nonprofit professional with over a decade of experience working in homelessness programs and currently working in homelessness prevention, I’ve often heard coworkers describe how a person in one of these programs reminded them of a close relative or friend.

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How to Recharge a Nonprofit-Led Affordable Housing Delivery System

NonProfit Quarterly

To achieve this requires a deeper understanding of the current housing crisis and how nonprofits can, with policy support, implement effective solutions. A Nonprofit Solution Before the surge in private equity interest in the single-family housing market, nonprofits were the quiet pistons in the engine of affordable homeownership.

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Housing and Climate: Funding Holistic Solutions

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For example: Community organizers in San Juan, Puerto Rico , persuaded legislators to establish a community land trust to prevent resort developers from grabbing land from low-income residents who must evacuate so the government can dredge a polluted waterway that floods when it rains.

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Fisheries and Stewardship: Lessons from Native Hawaiian Aquaculture

NonProfit Quarterly

There are many lessons to be learned from Indigenous aquaculture practices, especially in the areas of climate mitigation, adaptation, resilience, resource management, and food sovereignty. Kamakau described, the existence of a loko i‘a within a functioning ecosystem or landscape alone indicates abundance. 4 (See Figure 1.).

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

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.” At the height of the pandemic, I was swept up in a titanic battle being waged over the right to a city. 1 That city was New Haven, Connecticut.

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Tenants Nationwide Call for Social Housing Now!

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Seattle City Council on Wikimedia Commons Across the country, renters and unhoused people are organizing to demand that all levels of government address the nation’s housing crisis. It is democratically managed through the input of resident associations, tenant unions, and surrounding communities.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

For instance, in the chapter on education (Chapter 11), Lindsey Burke, who directs Heritage’s Center for Education Policy, writes that the “The Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, which prioritizes government and public sector work over private sector employment, should be terminated” (354).