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Community Development Must Center Power Building: A San Francisco Story

NonProfit Quarterly

The origin of the tenant organizing movement in San Francisco’s Chinatown can, in fact, be traced back to one of these organizations, the Ping Yuen Residents Improvement Association (PYRIA) , which was founded in 1967 to improve conditions in Chinatown’s public housing complexes. Empowered grassroots leadership made that project possible.

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Housing and Climate: Funding Holistic Solutions

Stanford Social Innovation Review

We desperately need both mitigation and adaptation—and that means we cannot simply focus on exciting new products and technologies. These developments all point to a political and funding context conducive to climate and housing justice. We also have to remediate the harm that has already been done. What Philanthropy Can Do.

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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.