Community Development Finance Public Policy 
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 8, 2025
Public bankscreated by governments and chartered to serve the public interestoffer a powerful model to advance racial equity, public accountability, and community self-determination. In New York, the public banking movement has taken root.
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 22, 2025
Image Credit: Brian Koellish on iStock Nearly a third of US communities are CDFI deserts. In these turbulent times, many leaders of the nations growing network of community development financial institutions (CDFIs)which now collectively manage $468 billion in assets, a 615 percent increase over the past decadehave high hopes.
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NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 15, 2025
But if the goal is to build a solidarity economy or foster a structural shift in the economy so that US business owners of color have the same ability to finance and develop thriving businesses as White business owners, then investor willingness to sacrifice some degree of financial return for social impact is required.
NonProfit Quarterly
OCTOBER 31, 2024
Typically, a one-megawatt solar array can power at least 400 homes for a year at a cost of about $4 million—making this cost-prohibitive to most community developers. What are some practical strategies for building local capacity and breaking a colonial mindset around community energy production?
NonProfit Quarterly
OCTOBER 23, 2024
In Chicago, speakers surveyed the growth of the past 20 years while setting forth goals to bring worker co-ops fully into the economic mainstream through movement infrastructure, public policy, and culture building. Increasingly, worker co-ops are making public policy gains.
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 17, 2024
Why a Banker Became a Public Banking Advocate If we want to close the racial wealth gap, we need to get serious about public banking. If you had asked me 20 years ago about public finance, I doubt I could have told you what a public bank was. How did I come to adopt this position? percent of overall wealth.
NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 5, 2023
As for initiatives underway in the Twin Cities and Los Angeles, both efforts are nascent, but both groups also appear to have developed a strong set of partners, making these efforts promising. Paul, tells Duranti-Martinez, for public policy to go beyond funding community ownership “experiments.”
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