Letter from Pocahontas Hagy to Editor of Bismarck Tribune, Submitted to the Congressional Record by Representative Burdick, May 7, 1956

This letter to the editor published in the Bismarck (North Dakota) Tribune was written by Pocahontas Hagy of Abingdon, Virginia, and submitted by United States (US) Representative Usher Burdick into the Congressional Record on May 7, 1956. The letter asks: if segregation is unconstitutional, why are Indigenous people segregated onto reservations with few resources? The letter admonishes the way white men have treated Indigenous people in the United States. The letter calls for a righting of wrongs perpetrated.https://commons.und.edu/burdick-papers/1299/thumbnail.jp

Planning and Practice - The Rooftops Project: Report Summarizing Results of a Survey of Not-for-Profit Organizations

The Rooftops Project\u27s first national field study of the attitudes and approaches of not-for-profit organizations with respect to the owned, leased or hosted real estate that supports their core missions and operations.https://digitalcommons.nyls.edu/rooftops_project/1000/thumbnail.jp

Simultaneous Representation: Transaction Resolution in the Adversary System

The proscription of simultaneous representation of potentially conflicting interests in the present Code of Professional Responsibility runs counter to the belief of many prospective clients that they are capable of formulating their own objectives. The author examines three possible simultaneous representation situations-the \u27\u27friendly divorce, the formation of a close corporation, and the simple transfer of residential property. Finding that all three may present appropriate cases for treatment by a single lawyer, the author suggests modifying the presently restrictive Canon 5 of the Code of Professional Responsibility to enable attorneys to better serve their clients\u27 needs within the limits of acceptable ethical conduct

Profiles - Chicago Literacenter

Business news is often filled with stories about incubator spaces and entrepreneurial hubs in which start-up companies can hang out, network, and grow. What might result when these concepts are adapted to bring together diverse not-for-profit organizations focused on similar missions? Professor James Hagy visits Stacy Ratner, Co-Founder and Creative Director of the Chicago Literacy Alliance, and Transwestern’s Larry Serota at the grand opening of Literacenter in downtown Chicago.https://digitalcommons.nyls.edu/rooftops_project/1028/thumbnail.jp

Perspectives - William Morrish, Professor of Urban Ecologies at Parsons The New School for Design

How can arts organizations with an aspiration to build their own facilities connect project design both with the broader community and with financial sustainability? The Rooftops Project’s Zulaihat Nauzo and Professor James Hagy talk with William Morrish, Professor of Urban Ecologies at Parsons The New School for Design.https://digitalcommons.nyls.edu/rooftops_project/1029/thumbnail.jp

Exporting Sexual and Reproductive Values - A study on the existence of U.S. SRHR politics in international AIDS relief and prevention aid in Africa

This thesis examines the ideologies and moral values regarding sexuality and gender within the United States national realm of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR); and furthermore what how these ideologies and morals are translated into development policy. Through the method interrogative insertion, I have explored in the U.S. President´s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). And through the method of discourse analysis, shown the ramifications of these ideologies when transferred into African societies through the practice of development seeking out to prevent and relieve HIV/AIDS by development agencies that receive funding from PEPFAR. With theories of postcolonialism, representation and discourse, and theories on governing the body I have been able to see how articulations of sexuality and gender in development policy aiming to combat HIV/AIDS in Africa have implications for the self identities as well as societies in which this development aid gears towards. Accordingly, this study discusses not only the sexual and reproductive rhetoric in development practices, but the field of development as a Western-based practice, which transfers Western-based understandings and ideologies into policy – and its turn imposes beliefs and societal constructions upon the developing world

The Distributional Effects of the Tax Treatment of Child Care Expenses

Tax relief for child care expenses, encompassing the Child Care Tax Credit and Dependent Care Assistance Plans, is the largest federal government program in the United States aimed at helping families with child care. We examine the distributional effects of these policies among families with children using both the National Child Care Survey and tax return data. Among families that use tax relief, the benefits average 1.24 percent of family income. Benefits as a percentage of income vary systematically over the income distribution. Despite being regressive at low income levels (mainly due to the credit being non-refundable), tax relief is progressively distributed over most of the income distribution with the ratio of benefits to income falling above the bottom quintile of the income distribution. The benefits of tax relief also vary among families with the same income depending on a family's structure and its labor market and child care choices.

Perspectives - Alyssa Bellew of the Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church of Pasadena

At manyplaces of worship, responsibility for oversight of the physical facilities falls to administrative staff as one more adjunct to an already busy schedule. At others, property tasks may be left to volunteers. The “on-the-job training” may often be self-taught. Professor James Hagy explores these challenges with Alyssa Bellew, Administrative Director of Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church.https://digitalcommons.nyls.edu/rooftops_project/1021/thumbnail.jp

Profile - The California Endowment’s Center for Healthy Communities

When the California Endowment planned new headquarters space for its own operations, its vision also included creating conference space suitable for events by other not-for-profits, opportunities for formal and informal collaboration among not-for-profits with compatible missions, and even incubator spaces for smaller organizations in need of an office presence. In this second article in his series looking at not-for-profits as urban neighbors, Professor James Hagy, Director of The Rooftops Project, talks with Anne-Marie Jones, Director of the Endowment’s Center for Healthy Communities, and Edward de la Torre, its Director of Facilities and Events.https://digitalcommons.nyls.edu/rooftops_project/1009/thumbnail.jp