Northwest Area Foundation: “The Opposite of Poverty is Not Wealth but Justice”
Northwest Area Foundation has changed its mission to reflect a commitment to put justice at the center of its support of Native Americans, communities of color, immigrants and refugees, and people in rural areas. President Kevin Walker says thriving requires more than material prosperity and barriers cannot be overcome by focusing through only a poverty-reduction lens. “We stand alongside changemakers in our eight states and 76 native nations and fund work that leads to racial, social, and economic injustice.”