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Community Development Must Center Power Building: A San Francisco Story

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Matt Briney on unsplash.com This is the second article in NPQ ’s series titled Building Power, Fighting Displacement: Stories from Asian Pacific America, coproduced with the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development ( National CAPACD ).

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How to Help People of Color Become Homeowners: Data from Philadelphia

NonProfit Quarterly

In Philadelphia , there are expensive historic districts, clusters of new luxury construction, walkable rowhouse neighborhoods, and areas that are indistinguishable from the nearby suburbs in look and price. Addressing this requires intervention both by policymakers and nonprofit organizations.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Arts & Culture

Bloomerang

The animating principle of Kresge’s Arts & Culture Program is equitable Creative Placemaking, which elevates arts, culture, and community-engaged design as central elements of community development and planning. The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee. Areas served: US. Knight Foundation. Cleveland Foundation.

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How Climate Migration and Adaptation Is Reshaping Lives

NonProfit Quarterly

However, locals and nonprofits are working to sustain their traditional livelihoods. In particular, farming communities have found ways to cope with increased flooding and erosion by using strategies such as floating farms. It’s a structural measure, which always has a timeline for its functions.

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“Educational Purposes”: Nonprofit Land as a Vital Site of Struggle

NonProfit Quarterly

3 In this book, I explored what happens to host communities when wealthy nonprofit organizations control exorbitant amounts of land in our cities and towns. Colleges, universities, and their medical centers are registered with the Internal Revenue Service as 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit organizations.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

If nonprofit and community organizations were able to restore the self-financing that was once the norm for social movements, they could begin to do the work of moving society away from its extractive and exploitative practices. 45 There are additional steps as well that movements can and must take beyond the nonprofit sector.

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The Imaginal Cells of the Solidarity Economy: Community Ownership

NonProfit Quarterly

I’m the coordinator of the Greater Boston CLT — Community Land Trust Network, as Steve said. [00:05:05] 00:05:05] I think I’ll just briefly define a community land trust, and I can talk about the work of the network. So there are about 315 of these nonprofit organizations worldwide. You have to live in our neighborhood.