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August 29, 2015, Philanthropy News Digest - While challenges such as entrenched poverty and overincarceration remain, funder collaborations, cross-sectoral partnerships, and community-based leadership and participation have helped transform New Orleans in the decade since Hurricane Katrina caused catastrophic damage to the city, a paper from the Greater New Orleans Funders Network argues. The paper, Fulfilling the Promise, Making New Orleans a Just and Resilient City (16 pages, PDF), outlines the progress made and challenges that remain in areas where philanthropy has played an important role...

Can you imagine what New York would look like if private equity funds weren’t evicting low-income renters? What about, if in the Washington, DC area, historically Black neighborhoods were not being gentrified by wealthy white people and behemoth-tech corporations like Amazon? What if, in Southern California, essential workers had the power to set policies that limit the environmental and health & safety impacts of warehousing? These aren’t just dreams — Black, Indigenous, and people of color-led movements in New York, the DC area, Southern California, and beyond have imbued these visions...

... barriers to social and economic barriers for residents of South L.A. There, Manisha helped build replicable job ...

... calls on fellow funding organizations based in the South to respond to the federal government's anti-immigrant ... North Carolina Congress of Latino Organizations Project South Southeast Immigrant Rights Network Southern Partners ... more about the organizations on the ground across the South – or think about ways we can do more together – .....

... , Black Youth Project 100 Stephanie Guilloud , Project South Kris Hayashi , Transgender Law Center Mary ... in St. Louis. Charlene was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago where she currently resides and ... charlene@byp100.org Stephanie Guilloud, Project South Stephanie Guilloud is originally from Houston, Texas ...

... resources to four new places - Pittsburgh, Nashville, South Carolina and Nevada. Everywhere Amplify works, we ... different, and tailored to the local context: Nevada and South Carolina will join North Carolina, Puerto Rico and ...

... works — Missouri, North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Puerto Rico and in California in ...

... is a supporting organization of the Missouri Mid- South and Illinois South Conferences of the United Church of Christ. Additional ...

... to me as a former fundraiser and organizer for Project South , an organization whose work for racial and economic ...

... communities in the greatest need of support. Working in South Seattle, the Foundation engaged with community members ...

... that one of the fastest growing multiracial unions in the south — SEIU Florida Public Service Union – was born. ...