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Learn More About Why We Need Social Housing

By Judith Tackett | 20 hours ago

“The biggest affordability issue in this country is a lack of a living minimum wage combined with a lack of access to affordable housing.”

Learn More About How The Contributor Helps End Homelessness

By Judith Tackett | April 29, 2026

The Contributor is a nonprofit offering wraparound services and vendor-focused programming, all designed to bring our community together to make homelessness a brief, rare occurrence.

Learn More About Human Trafficking and Homelessness

By Judith Tackett | April 8, 2026

Metro’s Office of Family Safety defines human trafficking the following way: “Human trafficking happens when one person uses or exploits another person for their own personal gain.”

Learn More About the Nonprofit Industrial Complex: Part 2

By Judith Tackett | April 1, 2026

We have to recognize that there is a vast difference amongst nonprofit organizations, and their funding mechanisms are extremely diverse.

Learn More About the Nonprofit Industrial Complex: Part 1

By Judith Tackett | March 18, 2026

That day I learned that when the cameras are on, everyone is on the same page. But when the cameras are off, the true discontent and disconnectedness become visible …

Learn More About the Importance to Pay People with Lived Expertise

By Judith Tackett | March 4, 2026

“Engaging people with lived experience in any project or policy work must be based on time, trust, equal partnership roles … and fair compensation, of course.”

The Village was the brainchild of Ron Johnson and Dawn Stone. Johnson and Stone recognized the gap in capacity building that plagued minority-led nonprofits and made it hard for them to compete in the nonprofit field for grants and funding.