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Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This approach would also systematically integrate socio-economic issues such as co-locating affordable housing and transit. Several organizations have adopted strengths-based or assets-based practices ranging from community development in the Solomon Islands to working with homeless and disadvantaged people in the UK.

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Can CDFIs Rein in Capitalist Excess?

NonProfit Quarterly

Last month, the Opportunity Finance Network (OFN), the nation’s leading community development financial institution (CDFI) trade association, held its first in-person national conference in three years in New York City. “It’s our job somehow to graft a conscience on the capitalist.”. Chuck Matthei, CDFI movement cofounder, 1985.

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