Author:
Aine Creedon
Categories:
Activism
Climate Justice
Narrative Power
Partnerships
Racial Justice
Image Credit: Counterstream In the environmental nonprofit sector, “centering frontline voices” has become a familiar slogan, often detached from how decisions are made or resources allocated. It appears in grant proposals, conference agendas, and organizational values statements. And yet, too often, those voices are still positioned as illustrative rather than authoritative—invited to animate strategies already decided, asked to translate lived experience into language legible to funders, or flattened into narratives that travel more easily …
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Author:
Aine Creedon
Categories:
Civil Society and Democracy
Immigration
Nonprofit Advocacy
Nonprofit Sector
Policy
Politics
Image Credit: Donald Teel on Unsplash I never met my immigrant ancestors, but I know my great-grandfather, Martin Huppert, would likely have been deported under President Trump. Immigrating to America from Hungary at the age of 18 in 1900, Huppert settled in Jersey City and made his living both distilling and selling liquors. When alcohol became illegal with the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1919, Huppert’s vocation transformed into a criminal enterprise, and thus …
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Author:
Aine Creedon
Categories:
Disability Justice
Economic Justice
Health Justice
Philanthropy
Racial Justice
Image Credit: Huseyin Bostanci on iStock This article is part of NPQ’s series, Money in Movements: The Role of Donor Organizing. Co-produced with Solidaire Network, this series offers firsthand narratives from donor organizers deeply embedded in justice struggles to illuminate how individuals with wealth can authentically align with grassroots movements. Disability Justice taught me that the edges of our movements hold the deepest lessons—and that centering them opens new possibilities for liberation. I was …
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Author:
Kate Elias
Categories:
Children and Families
Economic Justice
Gender and Sexuality
Racial Justice
Women’s Rights
Image credit: Miljan Živković on istock This story was originally reported by Chabeli Carrazana of The 19th. Meet Chabeli and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. Amanda Nataro was getting ready to travel to Liberia for a work trip when notice came that all travel was suspended. She was locked out of her emails and the building. In a matter of days, her job of nine years at the U.S. …
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Author:
Kate Elias
Categories:
Civil Society and Democracy
Economic Justice
Racial Justice
Toward a Third Reconstruction is a six-part Dēmos/Nonprofit Quarterly series, published between November and December, 2025, drawing on the defiantly optimistic vision of nine experts, activists, and leaders (in chronological order): Peniel Joseph, Barbara Jordan Chair in Ethics and Political Values at the Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy; Darrick Hamilton, Henry Cohen Professor …
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Author:
Kate Elias
Categories:
Care Economy
Economic Justice
Mutual Aid and Mutualism
Racial Justice
Social Movements
Image credit: Darth Stabro on wikimedia commons This story was originally reported by Barbara Rodriguez of The 19th. Meet Barbara and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. Ashley Fairbanks felt anxious as she scrolled through seemingly endless reports of federal immigration agents arresting and detaining people in Minnesota. It felt personal for Fairbanks, who lives in Texas but grew up on the south side of Minneapolis. Her closest friends and family …
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Author:
Aine Creedon
Categories:
Civil Society and Democracy
Community Organizing
Immigration
Philanthropy
“Are you okay?” These were Alex Pretti’s last words, said to a woman after ICE agents had tackled and pepper-sprayed her. Videos from bystanders show Pretti holding up a phone, attempting to document what was happening before he himself was pepper-sprayed, wrestled to the ground, and killed by those officers. He lost his life not for committing violence, but for documenting it, and stepping in to protect someone facing it. We must catalyze this moment …
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Author:
Aine Creedon
Categories:
Cooperatives and Employee Ownership
Economic Justice
Solidarity Economy
Image Credit: A. C. For Unsplash+ “What do you think is the biggest gap in the solidarity economy, and how can we address it?” These questions were the focus of several events in the fall of 2025, including a Community Wealth Building gathering in Washington, DC, and the Maryland Regional Solidarity and Cooperative Convening. At these events, and in interviews with a number of practitioners and cooperative developers, many answers came up: expanding capital options …
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Author:
Aine Creedon
Categories:
Aging / Senior Services
Economic Justice
Healthcare
Nonprofit Sector
Image Credit: Getty Images For Unsplash+ While an aging population is obviously a stressor on the system, shortfalls in US eldercare stem not just from an increasingly aged population, but rather from a combination of profit-driven ownership and ageist ideology, which together produce devastating outcomes. The numbers do not lie. Data show that private equity increases nursing home mortality by 10 percent, resulting in over 20,000 deaths in 12 years. Cultural views of aging as …
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Author:
Aine Creedon
Categories:
Change Management
Leadership
Organizational Culture
Strategic Planning
Image Credit: Wilhelm Gunkel on unsplash Welcome back to Ask a Nonprofit Expert, NPQ’s advice column for nonprofit readers, by civic leaders who have built thriving, equitable organizations. This series offers Leading Edge members a new benefit: the opportunity to submit tough challenges anonymously and get personalized advice. In this column, we’ll publish answers to common questions to strengthen our entire community’s capacity. In today’s issue, Niloufar Khonsari answers a reader’s question about balancing transparency …
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Author:
Aine Creedon
Categories:
Civil Society and Democracy
Fundraising
Nonprofit Sector
Philanthropy
Politics
Photo by Monstera Production on Pexels The 2026 midterm elections have the power to change the course of the United States for generations. Not by which candidates win, but by how fair, free, and representative our elections are. Americans need to trust that their voices will be heard and that it will be safe to cast their vote. Now less than one year away, the midterms will be a critical test of our democracy—and nonprofits …
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Author:
Aine Creedon
Categories:
Education
Immigration
Racial Justice
Image Credit: Racide on iStock The situation of Venezuelans in exile is marked above all by uncertainty. Since the United States’ removal of former President Nicolás Maduro, Venezuelan communities across the United States and Latin America must weigh the risks of returning against the fragility of the protections they still hold. Venezuelans had already been living in a vulnerable situation in recent months. In September 2025, the Department of Homeland Security announced it would end …
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