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Articles by Vanessa Roanhorse
Breaking Barriers: Catalyzing Indigenous Entrepreneurship Toward Financial Inclusion
Above: Elyse Dempsey, team member at Roanhorse Consulting works to change power dynamics in health and wealth systems by using an Indigenous worldview to co-create solutions to complex problems. Photo courtesy of Roanhorse Consulting. Starting a business in the United States and being an entrepreneur are two related yet distinct experiences.
Leashing the Monster: The Biden Administration Tackles Federal Student Loan Forgiveness
This July, the US Department of Education announced the release of proposed new federal student loan regulations, using language that only a bureaucrat could love, but which nonetheless affect millions of federal student loan borrowers nationwide.
Owning Our Labor: Productivity, Profits, and Power
Click here to download this article as it appears in the magazine, with accompanying artwork. Editors’ note: This article is from the Summer 2022 issue of the Nonprofit Quarterly, “Owning Our Economy, Owning Our Future.” If you performed a task at four times the rate of productivity, shouldn’t you receive four times the pay?
Radical Economics: Centering Indigenous Knowledge, Restoring the Circle
With this article, we conclude our series—Narratives to Build Collective Economic Power—which NPQ is publishing in partnership with the national racial and economic justice nonprofit, Common Future. In this series, the authors write about their economic justice work and how, in their work, they challenge conventional narratives and offer new ways of thinking about who can be owners in the economy and what community economic development means. In my “day job,” I am a systems designer consultant.
Building Community Institutions of Our Own
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Narratives to Build Collective Economic Power - Non Profit News
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Moving Beyond the 5 C’s of Lending: A New Model of Credit for Indian Country
Photo by Erin Larson on Unsplash This article is the fourth in a series of articles that NPQ, in partnership with First Nations Development Institute (First Nations), will publish in the coming weeks. The series will highlight leading economic justice work in Indian Country and identify ways that philanthropy might more effectively support these efforts.
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