# voting rights (news sources) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover voting rights. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Architecture of Environmental Justice Is in Danger—and on the Ballot](https://nonprofitquarterly.org/the-architecture-of-environmental-justice-is-in-danger-and-on-the-ballot/) _2026-08-21 · Coty Poynter · Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice._ The legal and financial scaffolding built to make the clean energy transition fair is being dismantled one executive order at a time. Only Congress can make it permanent. ## [Stewardship Isn’t a Thank-You Note—It’s a System](https://nonprofitquarterly.org/stewardship-isnt-a-thank-you-note-its-a-system/) _2026-08-20 · Coty Poynter · Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice._ A retention rate under 50 percent is more than a tactics problem. It’s a belief problem. The difference between stewardship that works and stewardship that doesn’t is whether donors feel alignment with the mission and a genuine sense of belonging. ## [To Exit Our Authoritarian Timeline, We Must Reclaim Patriotism by Keeping its Promise](https://nonprofitquarterly.org/to-exit-our-authoritarian-timeline-we-must-reclaim-patriotism-by-keeping-its-promise/) _2026-08-20 · Maurice Mitchell · Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice._ We must take patriotism and American symbolism back from the side working to gut our freedoms. To do this, our side must earn it, in public, where the grifters can't follow. ## [The Gap Between the Spectacle of America 250 and Reality: Lessons from North Carolina’s Fight for Voting Rights](https://nonprofitquarterly.org/the-gap-between-the-spectacle-of-america-250-and-reality-lessons-from-north-carolinas-fight-for-voting-rights/) _2026-08-20 · Aine Creedon · Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice._ North Carolina’s reality stands in stark contrast to America 250 celebrations that idealize the state of the nation: over the past year the state legislature has worked to destroy the voting power of its students, Black communities, immigrant citizens, and rural voters. ## [Built From the Ground Up: Why Environmental Justice Belongs to Communities](https://nonprofitquarterly.org/built-from-the-ground-up-why-environmental-justice-belongs-to-communities/) _2026-08-19 · Coty Poynter · Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice._ In the autumn of 1982, residents organized inside Coley Springs Baptist Church in Warren County, North Carolina to stop the state from burying PCB-contaminated soil in their community. For six weeks, men, women, and children marched and lay down in the road in front of trucks hauling toxic waste. More than 500 people were arrested. It was from a jail cell in Warren County that the term… ## [Let’s Talk Democracy Funding: Payout Rates, Pluralism, and Readiness at America’s 250th](https://nonprofitquarterly.org/lets-talk-democracy-funding-payout-rates-pluralism-and-readiness-at-americas-250th/) _2026-08-19 · Aine Creedon · Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice._ Even though support for democracy efforts continues to grow, deeper funding trends and challenges call for additional analysis and discussion. ## [One Year After Unlawful Federal Firings, a New Survey Documents the Damage](https://nonprofitquarterly.org/one-year-after-unlawful-federal-firings-a-new-survey-documents-the-damage/) _2026-08-19 · Aine Creedon · Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice._ A new survey reveals the wide-ranging effects of the terminations on federal employees at the turn of the administration. This survey is a starting point for independent researchers to study what happened to the unlawfully terminated population. ## [Who Controls the Board?](https://nonprofitquarterly.org/who-controls-the-board/) _2026-08-19 · Aine Creedon · Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice._ When yet more children's bones were found on the grounds of a past Bureau of Indian Education school, followed by another rash of school shootings, I felt physically sick to my stomach and disgusted that all these dead children were somehow just pawns in some sort of game that I couldn't hope to understand. ## [From the Birthing Chamber to the Ballot Box: A Choice Between Erasure and Equality](https://nonprofitquarterly.org/from-the-birthing-chamber-to-the-ballot-box-a-choice-between-erasure-and-equality/) _2026-08-18 · Coty Poynter · Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice._ The mythology of America is one of unblemished progress and triumph—a narrative amplified with renewed force as the United States continues to celebrate its 250th year. But those of us whose existence has always been a death-defying freedom struggle, propose an alternate observance—one that requires us all to reckon with the reality we are living in and the injustices that have shaped the society… ## [Climate Philanthropy Doesn’t Have a Talent Problem, it Has an Access Problem](https://nonprofitquarterly.org/climate-philanthropy-doesnt-have-a-talent-problem-it-has-an-access-problem/) _2026-08-18 · Aine Creedon · Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice._ Youth-led climate groups receive under one percent of major foundation grants. The usual fix, teaching them to fundraise, misunderstands the root cause. ## [Ultra-Quiet Business Mini (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/tCbLpJfwysv3) _2026-08-18 · **Sponsored**_ Compact business mini, ultra-quiet for focused work. ## [Political Prosecution of Movement-Aligned Elected Officials](https://nonprofitquarterly.org/political-prosecution-of-movement-aligned-elected-officials/) _2026-08-18 · Coty Poynter · Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice._ State legislators and local officials are holding the line on democracy—and paying for it with committee assignments, per diems, office raids, and personal safety. Philanthropy must invest in protecting them before the next attack becomes an emergency. ## [Lessons from the Fight For $15 Movement for Philanthropic Donors](https://nonprofitquarterly.org/lessons-from-the-fight-for-15-movement-for-philanthropic-donors/) _2026-08-18 · Aine Creedon · Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice._ The Fight for $15 movement succeeded because a union made a massive, risky, long-term bet before victory seemed possible—and it’s a victory that philanthropic donors can learn from. ## [Un American Spirit Necklace](https://nonprofitquarterly.org/un-american-spirit-necklace/) _2026-08-17 · Aine Creedon · Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice._ My Un American Spirit necklace is a spoof on the "American Spirit" cigarette brand and packaging which actually depicts a stereotypical Native smoking a "peace pipe." Yet they are selling little death dose cigarettes and none of the people who founded the company or are part of its current power structure have ever been Native American.