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

NonProfit Quarterly

Central to the Black community, it had amusements for adults and children alongside an auditorium where notable figures like Booker T. Through his children, his culture shaping legacy extended into politics. In the 20th century, Atlanta emerged as a hub of Black entrepreneurship and education. People like writer Ida B.

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Ending Persistent Poverty in Rural America: The Role of CDFIs

NonProfit Quarterly

Given endemic market failure, the federal government must adjust to this reality. 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

.” We focused on growing leaders with the capacity to reimagine and redesign the places that influence our children, our neighborhoods, and schools. A Future for Our Daughters We measure our success from the perspective of our children. Avoiding a one-size-fits-all approach. Every community is unique.

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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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The Future of Family Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Families are increasingly taking a portfolio approach that combines traditional grantmaking with values-aligned investing, advocacy strategies and political giving, social entrepreneurship, and more. How can families adjust to multi-generational leadership and governance, especially in families with a strong sense of original donor intent?

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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

It’s governed by a board of director and you, you run it. Louis and our job was to do entrepreneurship for military members and their families in St. We’ll do children. Tosha Anderson: Yeah. Even if you were the founder, especially. And again, I think it goes back to, what did you mean for this agency to do?