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Being and Building Beloved Community: The Intersection of Culture and Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

In short, Memphis developed a culturally rich Black middle-class neighborhood. In Memphis today—and indeed throughout the South—Black Americans are organizing to rebuild cultural institutions and restore Black economies. A Culture of Abundance So, who was Church, and what was his vision? People like writer Ida B.

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Ending Persistent Poverty in Rural America: The Role of CDFIs

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Oladimeji Odunsi on unsplash.com Rural America is far more diverse than how it is portrayed in media and popular culture. Here are a few vignettes of how this works: Supporting Entrepreneurship : Back in 2018, a nurse practitioner with over a decade’s experience opened an urgent care facility in her hometown of Clarksdale, MS.

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Building Power in Rural and Tribal Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Though ecologically and culturally rich, the county ranks in the bottom eighth in California for per-capita income. ” We focused on growing leaders with the capacity to reimagine and redesign the places that influence our children, our neighborhoods, and schools.

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Making The Best of It All: Founder, CEO, Entrepreneur On Leading With Energy, Intention

Fundraising Leadership

It can also give you the energy you need to find and fulfill your entrepreneurship goals and “do it without being exhausted,” says Amy Leigh Looper, founder and CEO of Leading Motherhood. “ careersuccess #intentioning ” After her children were born, Looper says, “I believed the myth that I had to step out of leadership.”

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How Radical Trust Creates Long-Term Resilience

Stanford Social Innovation Review

” In particular, it was seeing families lose children to preventable diseases which spurred the founding of the Bulungula Incubator (BI) in 2007—not as an intervention by Réjane into the community, but to act as a catalyst for the community itself to enact and own solutions to a range of issues. How did that change happen?

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¡Adelante! A Latinx Community Organizes to Generate Community Wealth

NonProfit Quarterly

Our children and their families suffer the impact of generational trauma just as much as their beneficiaries do. There is direct support provided by government agencies and foundations who are working with Adelante to promote culturally responsive information and equitable bilingual access to Latinx entrepreneurs.

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Solving the ‘Founder’s Syndrome’ Problem in Nonprofits

The Charity CFO

Um, and you’re truly there for a vision and culture building and setting the direction of the business rather than the day in and day out tactical things. Louis and our job was to do entrepreneurship for military members and their families in St. We’ll do children. Louis, Metro area. That was it.