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What Is a Community Development Corporation?

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Image credit: coffeekai on istock.com Community is one of humanity’s great achievements. Yet community development corporations , a $28 billion sector of over 6,200 nonprofits that support local community economic development, are largely invisible in the national conversation. CDCs are dead.

Community Development

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??How Community-Based Public Space Can Build Civic Trust: Lessons from Akron

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

That changed when a team from Reimagining the Civic Commons decided to reinvigorate public spaces in Akron’s systemically disinvested neighborhoods, including Summit Lake. Moving at the Speed of Trust Employing deep listening, engaging in meetings, and building one-on-one relationships with neighbors…helped inform public space design.

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A Social Movement Requires Momentum

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 29, 2023

In the realm of social change, community-based leaders are skilled at influencing and using momentum to advance local solutions but often lack all the financial resources they need to push those solutions to their full potential. Of course, both require long-term funding and investment since they lay the foundation for new approaches.

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Helping Movements Meet the Moment: What Philanthropy Can and Must Do

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

From climate catastrophe and forced migration to economic inequality to the erosion of democracy and the rise of political violence—these deep problems are also opportunities for major advances in progressive narratives and policies. Where does social justice philanthropy fit in? Some foundations are stepping up to this reality.

Philanthropy

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BIPOC Leadership Challenges: 26 Tips To Increase Accessibility Across The Nonprofit Sector

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Understanding the challenges BIPOC leadership face in the nonprofit sector One of the primary challenges BIPOC leaders face is limited access to funding.As BIPOC communities are disproportionately impacted by social inequality, with higher rates of poverty and unemployment.

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Housing and Health: Creating Solutions With Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Decades of discriminatory housing, transportation, and land-use policy combined with economic disinvestment have resulted in communities that are residentially segregated by income, race, ethnicity, language, and immigration status.

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Setting a Co-op Table for Food Justice in Louisville

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

And, of course, there are always contingencies with public money. In response to the protests and adverse national publicity, Louisville put into place a civilian review board. Reporters and community members have also complained about LMPD’s failure to respond to records requests. We secured $3.5

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Beyond Pledges: Building More Inclusive Capital Ecosystems

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Image credit: Brandon on Unsplash The murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police three and a half years ago ignited a months-long period of mass social mobilization and intense public engagement. One reason for this outcome: most efforts fail to address the systems that reproduce inequality. We can—and must —do better.

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Building Infrastructure to Support Equity: A Conversation with Dr. Akilah Watkins

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2023

Akilah Watkins, who previously led the Center for Community Progress and has been a leader in the CEO Circle, a group of community development leaders of color, became president and CEO of Independent Sector in January 2023. The nonprofit sector is hugely important both economically and socially to this country.

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Often, the very same nonprofit that is advocating for social justice policy may pay its own workers poverty-level wages. Nelson Colón of the Puerto Rico Community Foundation, and Clara Miller, president emerita of the Heron Foundation—come from philanthropy. We build community and coalition with others.

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The Nonprofit Sector and Social Change: A Conversation between Cyndi Suarez and Claire Dunning

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

But I always had a sense of those organizations when I worked there, an internal critique of what kind of social change were we really bringing about. So, I’m humbled that you see your professional trajectory in this book, because many of the questions came from working at the Boston Foundation. It was just so amazing to read it.

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Philanthropy Must Move from Charity to Solidarity

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 22, 2022

As an American-born, Vietnamese philanthropic professional, this annual convening in August prompts me to reflect not only on the financial and political contributions that Black communities up and down the socioeconomic ladder have made to a democratic society. It also encourages me to rethink the definition of philanthropy itself.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

2 It has been edited for publication here. The growth of these efforts required more access to nonextractive investment capital, creating a demand for public banks and democratic loan funds across the country.” But how would they know what the community needs?” The year is 2053. The buzzing of delivery drones fills the air.

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Unlikely Advocates: Worker Co-ops, Grassroots Organizing, and Public Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

Up to this point, legislation for most worker co-ops was not a priority; federal policy wasn’t even a pipe dream. Public policy wasn’t really a part of our culture. Why Prioritize Public Policy and Advocacy? 6 Engaging in public policy advocacy is not without its dangers. Until it was.

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Nonprofits as Battlegrounds for Democracy

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

While the title of the book might belie the scope of inquiry, Dunning makes the case that using nonprofits as a “tool for addressing urban problems” has led to a form of “urban governance” that uses private organizations to fulfill public, democratic rights. And over time, private foundations emerged and issued grants in a similar way.

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The Imaginal Cells of the Solidarity Economy: Community Ownership

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2023

Over the course of our lecture series, we’ve talked a lot about the crucial role that community plays in building alternatives to capitalistic models of access, resource distribution and social equity. I’m a public sociologist, and we formed out of a need, right? All that kind of stuff. [00:08:15] Thankful to be here today.

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Nonprofit Leadership Zone

What Is a Community Development Corporation?

??How Community-Based Public Space Can Build Civic Trust: Lessons from Akron

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A Social Movement Requires Momentum

Helping Movements Meet the Moment: What Philanthropy Can and Must Do

BIPOC Leadership Challenges: 26 Tips To Increase Accessibility Across The Nonprofit Sector

Housing and Health: Creating Solutions With Communities

Setting a Co-op Table for Food Justice in Louisville

Beyond Pledges: Building More Inclusive Capital Ecosystems

Building Infrastructure to Support Equity: A Conversation with Dr. Akilah Watkins

Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

The Nonprofit Sector and Social Change: A Conversation between Cyndi Suarez and Claire Dunning

Philanthropy Must Move from Charity to Solidarity

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

Unlikely Advocates: Worker Co-ops, Grassroots Organizing, and Public Policy

Nonprofits as Battlegrounds for Democracy

The Imaginal Cells of the Solidarity Economy: Community Ownership

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