Emily Nonko
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New York, United States
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A Mobile Bank On Wheels Reaches Bronx Residents Where They Are
Bank closures are crippling the Bronx. So these organizers found another way to serve their own communities. → Read More
How A South American Surplus Flooded Philadelphia With Free Avocados
It could have been a food-waste debacle. Instead, a nimble network turned it into a bounty for all — and inadvertently reinvented a food system. → Read More
A Public Building That Can Decarbonize Santa Rosa’s Electric Grid
Sonoma Clean Power says its new headquarters models the environmental potential of a public utilities building. → Read More
Fashioning An Identity Behind Bars
At a New York City exhibit, the lived experience of fashion while incarcerated is at the fore. → Read More
The Immigrant Women Workers Learning To Disrupt The Cleaning Industry
How New York City’s Liberty Cleaners co-created an innovative training program that’s providing the skills to bring about their vision of the gig economy. → Read More
NYC’s Newest Gigabit Center Aims to Close the Bronx’s Digital Divide
The community space offers Bronx residents high-speed internet, tech innovation and small business development, all powered by the free LinkNYC Wi-Fi. → Read More
How Denver Is Working to Make Its Cannabis Economy More Equitable
The city’s new "targeted entrepreneurial assistance program" is designed to boost marijuana business ownership among Denverites of color. → Read More
The Violence Interrupters Need Help
Amid widespread calls for more community-based violence intervention, a new survey shows the high cost of this work for the “violence interrupters.” → Read More
Test Plots in Los Angeles Parks Grow More Than Native Crops: A Community of People Who Care
Local volunteers step in to maintain new landscape designs in several chronically underfunded public parks, and they nourish much more than just plants. → Read More
The Enterprise Center is driving biz services to Philly’s commercial corridors
The new Biz on Wheels van brings office services and free tax, loan and marketing consultation, with a focus on minority- and immigrant-owned businesses. → Read More
‘Green Girls’ Take on Climate Change
The City Parks Foundation program teaches young girls in NYC about science and environment, and now offers a curriculum free to all educators. → Read More
Facing Trauma to Manage Money Better
This online financial literacy program goes beyond savings accounts to address capitalism, scarcity and exploitation. → Read More
Choose to Change Connects Chicago Teens to Therapy, Mentors
The trauma-informed program is expanding with a $7.5 million investment by the city's school district. → Read More
Seattle Affordable Housing Project Is Designed with Families in Mind
Homes for multigenerational families have largely been missing in the construction boom of the past decade. → Read More
Libraries Will Lead the Equitable Recovery
In many New York City neighborhoods, libraries are the only trusted resource for immigrants, teens, older adults, and those on the wrong side of the digital divide. → Read More
Pueblo’s Libraries Are Thriving Thanks to Equity-Focused, People-Powered Budgeting
The city's new budgeting framework let residents come up with an idea to hold a reading challenge. → Read More
The Brooklyn Public Library Already Knows How to Get Books Back Without Fines
Years before all of NYC's libraries went fine-free, the Brooklyn Public Library was successfully experimenting with ways to encourage book returns. → Read More
Free Produce, Coffee and a Sense of Community for NYU Students
The Minetta Creek Collective is tackling food insecurity for the Washington Square Park community. → Read More
Once a Bus That Transported Incarcerated People Around Rikers, Now a Gorgeous Work of Community Art
The bus is now meeting communities where they are with a riot of color and joy. → Read More
Guaranteed Income For Artists Being Tested in Two Cities
“It’s not radical .. what we’re talking about is merely a reappropriation directed to artists and creating a space where they can advocate for themselves politically as a pillar of the community.” → Read More