Image Source: GudguyBen on Unsplash In popular discourse about the economy, risk-taking is often celebrated. “An appetite for risk … fueled the growth of Silicon Valley,” enthused one recent article. Yet such celebratory accounts ignore the fact that the ability to take such risks is far from equally accessible for all. Take venture capital, which
Shanelle Matthews: “I do not know that pro-Blackness is commensurate with the traditional nonprofit infrastructure. These organizations are proxies for power for the rich. So, in some ways, we’re trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. I do think that the charity model ends up ultimately being ineffective in many ways,
Dax-Devlon Ross: “Folks have recognized now that a lot of the ways in which organizations have tried to address the conflicts and crisis is by finding Black folks to become the leaders. And what they find again and again is that leaves Black folks who become those leaders in a very vulnerable place. They’re
Image Credit: Tingey Injury Law Firm on Unsplash It’s no secret that small businesses were hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. But Kennedy Smith of the nonprofit Institute for Local Self-Reliance sees opportunity amid the pain. Will it be seized? Smith is an optimist. In her new report, Small Business’s Big Moment, Smith contends that
The nonprofit sector has a long, complex relationship with compensation. With a workforce that in my home state of Minnesota is roughly three-quarters female and traditions of low wages these days, nonprofit workers are proving unwilling to accept second-class status. While the historical wage gap between nonprofit and those employed either by for-profit firms or
