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Federal Workers Organize to Counter “Deferred Resignation” Memo

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Chelsea Bland In the wake of a January 28 government memo titled Fork in the Road encouraging federal workers to resign their positions, and mounting warnings of mass layoffs (including the threat to lay off over 10,000 US Agency for International Development workers ), unions and their members are increasingly going public.

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The Next 4 Years: Tapping Into Nonprofit Expertise

The NonProfit Times

She has spearheaded innovation in heart and stroke prevention with AHA active in more than 100 countries. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jonathan T.M. AHA has invested more than $5.9 billion to accelerate scientific discoveries and drive innovation using new technologies.

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How to Recharge a Nonprofit-Led Affordable Housing Delivery System

NonProfit Quarterly

Here it is important to understand that nonprofits have traditionally focused on the housing aftermarket—the platforms, processes, public policy, and market activity that brings distressed and defaulted mortgaged property back to market. billion in development activity.

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??How Community-Based Public Space Can Build Civic Trust: Lessons from Akron

NonProfit Quarterly

All these popular amenities and activities were conceived and constructed in close collaboration with residents. Flora and fauna were thriving, and its water was as clean as other urban lakes. Summit Lake welcomes people into nature with activities like weekly guided canoe trips. Resident fear abated.

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We Must Be Founders

Stanford Social Innovation Review

What if we had a Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that took its mandate to ensure human flourishing rather than real estate profit? I invite you to imagine with me what this would look like.

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When It Comes to Promoting Prosperity, Production Beats Consumption

Stanford Social Innovation Review

But while the shift from passive beneficiary to active customer represents increased agency, this line of thinking presupposes that the poor will remain so for the foreseeable future; the objective is simply to maximize their purchasing power at still-low income levels.

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Community Development Must Center Power Building: A San Francisco Story

NonProfit Quarterly

While the Civil Rights movement had activated a generation of people to demand that equity be built into the fabric of society, cities across the country were embracing urban renewal, which harmed communities of color. The preservation of Chinatown…is not possible without the relationships built among the entities that serve the community.