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Subject Resourcing the Field: Crafting the Future
Date October 22, 2025 3:00 PM
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** Resourcing the Field: Crafting the Future
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October 22, 2025

In today’s Resourcing the Field newsletter, we look at how to craft—and fund—a future that advances economic and racial justice.

We begin with interviews of two authors whose books are out this month.

In one, philanthropic critic Vu Le of the blog Nonprofit AF and author of Reimagining Nonprofits and Philanthropy, posits ways that the sector can get out of its current rut ([link removed]) , including changing the board’s role, rethinking fundraising, and retooling the duty of care to focus on the community served.

The next, with immigrant rights attorney and nonprofit cofounder Niloufar Khonsari—author of The Future Is Collective—discusses how to transform organizational culture ([link removed]) and build effective nonprofits that are also democratically managed and run.

Then, writing from Puerto Rico, Alison Chopel, Orlando Velázquez Pérez, Belinés Ramos Negrón, and Eduardo J. Rodríguez León argue for expanding community ownership of housing ([link removed]) to protect communities from displacement. Their on-the-ground research suggests that the path to this vision requires an ecosystem approach, connecting artists and creatives with nonprofit and cooperative technical assistance leaders.

Last but not least, Tom Tresser makes the case that if nonprofits want to be well-resourced, they need to up their advocacy game—and that requires raising resources ([link removed]) from the public. One idea: assessing a $1 fee to nonprofit ticketed services, like museum admissions and theater seats, to fuel political power building.

As you read these articles, I hope you find some ideas you can use to help better meet needs in your own communities.

Steve Dubb

Senior Editor

Economic Justice


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** Must-Read Articles
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Reinvigorating the Nonprofit Sector: A Conversation with Vu Le

by Steve Dubb and Vu Le

The nonprofit sector is in a rut. And it needs to change. This includes replacing “best practices” with liberatory practices and centering equity in the work.
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Building a Collective Future: A Conversation with Niloufar Khonsari

by Steve Dubb and Niloufar Khonsari

Collective management can and does work in nonprofits, but there are a number of tricks of the trade to make worker self-managed nonprofits effective in practice.
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How to Develop a Community Housing Vision for Puerto Rico

by Alison Chopel, Orlando Velázquez Pérez, Belinés Ramos Negrón, and Eduardo J. Rodríguez León

Bad Bunny’s recent 31-concert residency in Puerto Rico highlighted the archipelago’s housing and displacement crisis. But what’s the solution? A community ownership approach could make housing more affordable and accessible to locals.
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Time for Nonprofits to Generate Their Own Revenue for Political Power

by Tom Tresser

Nonprofits have long underinvested in political lobbying. For arts and culture organizations selling tickets to customers, a $1 advocacy fee could be a steady funding mechanism to build political power.
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