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Our Homes, Our Communities: How Housing Acquisition Strategies Can Create Affordable Housing, Stabilize Neighborhoods, and Prevent Displacement
AUTHOR: James A. Crowder Jr., Chris Schildt, Rick Jacobus…
YEAR: 2021
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This report details strategies that cities can lead to creating equitable housing outcomes for residents by moving privately owned rental housing i
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Race and Gender Wealth Equity and the Role of Employee Share Ownership
AUTHOR: Aspen Institute
YEAR: 2021
DESCRIPTION:
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, in an allegedly strong economy, workers at the bottom of the opportunity scale were struggling to support themse
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Building Toward Racial Justice and Equity in Health
AUTHOR: Office of Attorney General, Massachusetts
YEAR: 2020
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This report begins with an overview of the disproportionate harm that COVID-19 has caused in communities of color, and then outlines actionable rec
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The Reckoning: When a Pandemic Collides with Systemic Racism
AUTHOR: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
YEAR: 2020
DESCRIPTION:
Black Americans are now experiencing two sim
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The Burden of Bias in the Bay State: The Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap in Massachusetts
AUTHOR: Jen Douglas
YEAR: 2020
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The Building Movement Project’s Race to Lead series investigates why there are so few leaders of color in the nonprofit sector and documents the ch
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Antiracism Expanding Social Work Education: A Qualitative Analysis of the Undoing Racism Workshop Experience
AUTHOR: Johnnie Hamilton-Mason & Samantha Schneider…
YEAR: 2020
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The importance of addressing implications of racism has reached a critical point at colleges and universities across the United States, and schools
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Race to Lead Revisited: Obstacles and Opportunities in Addressing the Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap
AUTHOR: Building Movement Project
YEAR: 2020
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Race to Lead Revisited: Obstacles and Opportunities in Addressing the Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap presents findings from a 2019 survey of more
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Qualified Renters Need Not Apply Race and Voucher Discrimination in the Metro Boston Rental Housing Market
AUTHOR: The Boston Foundation, Suffolk University, Analysis…
YEAR: 2020
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This study measures the levels of discrimination in the Greater Boston rental housing market based on race and income level.
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An Equity Imperative: How the Workforce System Can Advance Workplace Health and Safety During and After the Pandemic
AUTHOR: Amanda Newman
YEAR: 2020
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This brief highlights key ideas for how the workforce development system can promote workplace health and safety during the pandemic.
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Facilitating Organizational Change: Lessons from Nonprofit Participation in InclusionBoston
AUTHOR: YW Boston & Boston Foundation
YEAR: 2020
DESCRIPTION:
Over the past two years, YW Boston has had the incredible opportunity to partner with the Boston Foundation and a number of their grantees.
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Advancing Frontline Employees of Color
AUTHOR: PolicyLink & FSG
YEAR: 2020
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Advancing Frontline Employees of Color, identifies 23 evidence-based practices for advancing racial equity and fostering working environments where
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Building Black Homeownership Bridges
AUTHOR: Urban Institute: Alanna McCargo, Jung Hyun Choi, and…
YEAR: 2019
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The persistent racial homeownership gap and related wealth gap, have been in focus for some time.
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Changing Faces of Greater Boston
AUTHOR: Boston Indicators, The Boston Foundation, UMASS Boston…
YEAR: 2019
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This report tells the fascinating story of a great region’s evolving racial and ethnic diversity.
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The Governance Gap - Examining Diversity and Equity on Nonprofit Boards of Directors
AUTHOR: Molly Delano Brennan with Miecha Ranea Forbes
YEAR: 2019
DESCRIPTION:
This report is an examination of how and why this gap exists, with the aim of giving leaders actionable strategies for increasing board diversity.
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Our Homes, Our Future: How Rent Control Can Build Stable, Healthy Communities
AUTHOR: Amee Chew & Sarah Treuhaft
YEAR: 2019
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Amid the worst renter crisis in a generation, it is time for policymakers to respond to the call for rent contro
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Evaluating Empowerment Economics: A Preliminary Framework for Assessing Innovations in Financial Capability
AUTHOR: Jessica Santos & Meg Lovejoy; Institute on Assets…
YEAR: 2019
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Empowerment Economics is a multi-generational and culturally responsive approach to financial capability developed by and for low-income AAPIs and
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Race to Lead: Women of Color in the Nonprofit Sector
AUTHOR: Ofronama Biu, Senior Research Associate at Building…
YEAR: 2019
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This report reveals that women of color encounter systemic obstacles to their advancement over and above the barriers faced by white women and men
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Gentrification: Framing Our Perceptions
AUTHOR: Rachel Bogardus Drew
YEAR: 2018
DESCRIPTION:
While most urban scholars agree on a generic definition of gentrification – the change that occurs when a traditionally low-income neighborhood exp
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Redefining Sanctuary
AUTHOR: The Opportunity Agenda
YEAR: 2018
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This report is an analysis of public attitudes and media coverage of sanctuary jurisdictions and related immigra
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Why disability rights are central to social justice work—and what we’re doing about it
AUTHOR: The Ford Foundation
YEAR: 2017
DESCRIPTION:
This report takes a closer look at the importance of disability rights in the work being done by the Ford Foundation.
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Combating the Suburbanization of Poverty
AUTHOR: Congress for the New Urbanism
YEAR: 2017
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The report, Combating the Suburbanization of Poverty, is full of information about poverty trends and remedies in suburban areas of King County, Wa
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The SPARCC Initiative: Fostering Racial Equity, Health, and Climate Resilience in the Built Environment
AUTHOR: Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
YEAR: 2017
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This article explains why we, as funders, came to the table to develop and support the Strong, Prosperous, and Resilient Communities Challenge (SPA
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There’s No Place Like Home: Reshaping Community Interventions and Policies to Eliminate Environmental Hazards and Improve Population Health for Low-Income and Minority Communities
AUTHOR: Emily A. Benfer and Allyson E. Gold*
YEAR: 2017
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This article analyzes the relationship between policies governing healthy communities and housing and health outcomes for residents.
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Race to Lead: Confronting the Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap
AUTHOR: Building Movement Project
YEAR: 2017
DESCRIPTION:
The nonprofit sector is experiencing a racial leadership gap.
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