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Articles by Ines Polonius
CDFIs Transform Rural Economies. We Just Need to Get Them There. (SSIR)
How do we build thriving rural communities in the 21st century? The labor-intensive, extractive industries paradigm that has long powered rural economies—think agriculture, manufacturing, mining, timber—has fundamentally changed due to automation and globalization, and the search for new rural development models is coalescing around a new vision. Starting from a deficit framework and searching for externally derived, ill-suited, copycat solutions is a strategic dead end for rural regions.
Parcel 36: The Fight for Neighborhood Green Space in San Francisco
A fight for a space in San Francisco is not uncommon. This time a small plot of land is in legal limbo within the city’s Mission District—a fast-changing neighborhood with Latinx roots. Ownership of the small plot came into contention when an activist group, Mission Greenway, took over the plot of land to create a community garden in 2022. Parcel 36, a 2,245-square-foot lot, has the potential to be a green space in this highly dense part of the city.
Who's Your Fairy Godmother - Non Profit News
Meet Saphia, a young bell hooks fanatic trying desperately to build a good life in New York City. Constantly immersed in the latest idea she has discovered while reading hooks, Saphia is determined to figure out how to apply these liberatory ideals to her own life. But the one thing she doesn’t account for is a little surprise encouragement from the legend herself.
Conservative Nonprofits Fight Student Debt Cancellation
Last August, the Biden administration announced a plan to wipe out student debt for almost half of the 45 million Americans who collectively owe over $1.6 trillion dollars. For the 26 million borrowers who have applied, the program would cancel $10,000 in federal student loan debt and up to $20,000 for those who received need-based Pell Grants. In response, state legislatures are pushing back—with help from right-wing nonprofits.
Undoing Housing Segregation: An Interview with Leah Rothstein
Leah Rothstein has been a consultant to nonprofit housing developers, local government, and private firms. Her policy work is informed by her years as a community organizer with PUEBLO and Californians for Justice and as a labor organizer with the Union of Needletrades, Industrial, and Textile Employees (UNITE). Recently, with her father Richard Rothstein, she coauthored a book called Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law.
Housing Innovation in Rural America
Rural America is far more diverse than how it is portrayed in media and popular culture. This article concludes the series: Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. Coproduced by Partners for Rural Transformation, a coalition of six regional community development financial institutions, and NPQ, authors highlight efforts to address multi-generational poverty in Appalachia, the rural West, Indian Country, South Texas, and the Mississippi Delta.
Preparing Rural Water Systems for Extreme Weather and Climate Disasters
As extreme weather and climate disasters become more frequent, the nation’s basic infrastructure is increasingly vulnerable to service disruptions and failure. Most US water systems serve 10,000 customer connections or fewer and can lack the needed resources and capacity to adequately plan and prepare for these disasters, let alone respond to and recover from them.
Renewing US rural prosperity: Federal policy in the Biden administration
Twitter Join the conversation on Twitter using #ReimagineRural Amid 21st-century shifts in the global and U.S. economy, demographics, and climate, federal leadership must modernize to improve its coherence, effectiveness, and ability to support rural communities. The Biden administration’s public commitment to “rebuild rural” represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reimagine policy to maximize rural prosperity.
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