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Impact Investing Can’t Deliver by Chasing Market Returns

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Most practitioners working in community development have accepted this as the reality of impact investing: The harder you drive for social impact in disadvantaged communities, the farther away you get from unbuffered full market return.

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Local Solutions to Federal Problems: Moving Climate Dollars to Communities

NonProfit Quarterly

The same elements [needed for] BIPOC communities to benefit from public funding are also the most promising approaches to address…climate change. We derive these findings from a report we collaborated on, recently published by the National Resources Defense Council, that explored these issues.

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Five Tips for Running an Online Competition

Care2

We are very invested in sharing our experiences and learning as we go, including opportunities to put thoughts together formally like the whitepaper on collaboration we published last year. Tip #1: Set the stage. The more information you can provide before you open your competition up for submissions, the better!

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Getting Federal Money to Communities: A Story from Puerto Rico

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Christian Ouellet on istock.com Financing challenges often stymie nonprofits. CRH is the only organization in the colonized territory actively collaborating with communities to transform the ever-present blight of abandoned buildings into habitable affordable housing and healthy community spaces.

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Making Food Systems Work for People of Color: Six Action Steps

NonProfit Quarterly

And in so doing we are challenging the community development field to do better—by creating new tools to support truly equitable food-oriented development. Many large community development financial institutions , credit unions, and foundations present themselves as community-based food financing leaders.

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Organizing a Community Around Food Sovereignty

NonProfit Quarterly

Since January 2020, I’ve had the honor of leading the United Northeast Community Development Corporation (UNEC), a neighborhood-based community development corporation founded and led by residents of Northeast Indianapolis, a center of Black life in this Midwestern city for generations.

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Housing and Health: Creating Solutions With Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In 2018, we developed the Advancing Health Equity Through Housing (HEH) funding opportunity and supported 31 organizations working at the intersection of housing and health equity in cities across the United States. Flexible, Collaborative Learning. Creating a Learning Community.

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