Nonprofit leaders can’t continue to do the same things and expect different results in their work to help move the United States toward greater equity.
The advertisement called it “the largest hiring event ever in the region focused on young men of color.”
My reaction: Oh, really?
Because I’ve become increasingly skeptical of community-based organizations claiming to help the underrepresented after reporting on another nonprofit that needed to get bailed out because of mismanagement. So I decided to follow up on the claim by the Bay Area Young Men of Color Employment Partnership.
Unfortunately some African Americans have said this or perhaps they thought it and didn’t say it; either way the results are the same. Why do black people need urban agriculture yo? Is it relevant? Is it practical? Why should black people be immensely involved in the currently explosion of urban agriculture going on throughout the country? I want to take a couple minutes to give my brief opinionated but informed take on why I think urban agriculture should be important to people of African descent in American cities.
Middle America is an engine of innovation. Low-income communities are investable. Immigrants are assets, not liabilities. Inclusive prosperity is a pro-growth strategy. In cities and towns across the U.S. and around the world, business and civic leaders are building local ecosystems to help residents thrive in the global economy. We call them The New Revivalists.
Racial inequality in the United States—a country with a long, deep history of racism—is nothing new.
Two new reports highlight ways in which the divide between white and non-white Americans has grown in recent years—and what that spells for the future of America.
In 1981, Minneapolis was facing an affordable housing crisis. Rents had risen 61 percent in the five years since the repeal of Nixon-era rent controls; they were expected to increase another 10 percent the following year. A number of condominium conversions had decreased available units, and the city’s vacancy rate had fallen from 4 to 3.4 percent. With rent increasing as much as 7.6 percent in just a few months, tenants found that they could not survive.