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What Is a Community Development Corporation?

NonProfit Quarterly

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.

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How Nonprofits Can Leverage Their Financial Relationships to Advance Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Getty Images on Unsplash Consider a food bank discovering that its operating reserves are in banks that finance industrial agriculture, the very system contributing to food insecurity and displacing small community farms. These scenarios arent hypothetical. What might building strategic relationships look like?

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Impact Investing Can’t Deliver by Chasing Market Returns

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Most practitioners working in community development have accepted this as the reality of impact investing: The harder you drive for social impact in disadvantaged communities, the farther away you get from unbuffered full market return.

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Connecting Faith Institutions to Capital

NonProfit Quarterly

He indicated that the church’s history fuels much of its mission work, including supporting a homelessness ministry and operating a voting precinct at the church to make sure that local West Jackson residents are not disenfranchised. “Faith institutions. Hollenback argued there is a need to “take the same approach, but for community.”

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

Bloomerang

we all know nonprofits rely on a combination of government grants, philanthropic donations, and earned income to support their operations. Provide diversity and inclusion training for all staff and board members, to increase awareness and understanding of the issues faced by underserved communities.

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Housing and Health: Creating Solutions With Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Housing instability—whether through homelessness or frequent evictions and moves—creates chronic, toxic stress and exposes people to traumatic and unhealthy situations. Creating a Learning Community. When housing is unaffordable, it leaves little money left over to buy healthy foods and critical medicines.

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Faith Communities and Affordable Housing: Challenges and Opportunities

NonProfit Quarterly

Policymakers and advocates say: Government must expedite the redevelopment of underutilized church property for affordable housing. Churches should partner with developers and repurpose these properties. Data analysts say: Accelerating church closures are evidence that US Christianity is dying.