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Building Community through Holistic Strategy: A Story from a Seattle Immigrant Suburb

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: TuiPhotoengineer on istock.com This is the fifth and final 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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A Call To Action For Nonprofit Board Members

Bloomerang

Nonprofit organizations play a pivotal role in addressing societal issues, providing essential services, advocacy, and support to those in need, and fostering community development. Oversight and governance Provide proper oversight to ensure the organization is operating effectively and ethically, and acting fiscally responsible.

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A Social Movement Requires Momentum

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It also passes some decision-making to local communities via local investment committees that deploy the capital from the endowment. What if millions of congregants followed suit?

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Experiments in Community Ownership Taking Charge of Commercial Real Estate

NonProfit Quarterly

The journey since then has been an adventure, offering important lessons for us that I believe are valuable for the community development field. Our project was catalyzed by Genesis LA, a Community Development Financial Institution that was willing to bet on our idea. Traditional views of “risk.”

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

Nelson Colón of the Puerto Rico Community Foundation, and Clara Miller, president emerita of the Heron Foundation—come from philanthropy. The main goal is to empower workers and consumers and improve the quality of community life. The other five work for nonprofit intermediary organizations.

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Ancestor in the Making: A Future Where Philanthropy’s Legacy Is Stopping the Bad and Building the New

NonProfit Quarterly

These new laws channeled philanthropic assets into municipal bonds and community development loan funds, which stabilized local municipalities. The passage of the THRIVE Act prioritized renewable, environmentally sound, ethically sourced energy production, from development to deployment.

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How to Eliminate the Myth of Meritocracy and Build the World We Deserve

NonProfit Quarterly

Training and support programs for cooperative and community-owned entities will be key. The Movement for Black Lives has developed a comprehensive policy agenda to restore a safety net that is rooted in an ethic of reparations and repair and that aims to explicitly reverse generational divestment from Black communities.