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Faith Communities and Affordable Housing: Challenges and Opportunities

NonProfit Quarterly

Limited housing stock impacts families by raising their housing costs to unaffordable levels, forcing people to move or face homelessness. Since 2013, over 100 churches have sought housing and community development assistance and financing from the United Church of Christ Church Building & Loan Fund (CB&LF) that I direct.

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Building Social Housing from the Ground Up: Grassroots Perspectives

NonProfit Quarterly

Building on successful experiments in cooperative housing built by labor unions, they pushed for the type of large-scale, universal housing programs germinating during the interwar period in European cities like Vienna. Seattle organizers won big at the ballot to create a municipal social housing developer for new mixed-income developments.

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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. are often the only game in town.

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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. In many ways, I imagine a nonprofit sector committed to economic justice looking like a sector where the suggestions we made as we braced for the brunt of COVID are universal norms.

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

Bloomerang

Provide diversity and inclusion training for all staff and board members, to increase awareness and understanding of the issues faced by underserved communities. Develop partnerships and alliances with other organizations that serve BIPOC communities, and collaborate on initiatives that promote diversity and inclusion.

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How to Interrupt the Public Funds to Private Profits Pipeline: A California Story

NonProfit Quarterly

Instead, public banks partner with local banks to expand community-driven impacts. Portions of this article rely heavily on the capstone project Public Bank East Bay, prepared by Sarah Albert for the University of California, Berkeleys Goldman School of Public Policy, May 2024. Are you ready?

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Innovating for a Healthy Context

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For example, initiatives that seek to develop the lives of people from homeless communities have discovered how living in a private apartment with no prior requirements can have dramatic effects on unhoused people. However, we lack universal criteria that help development organizations specify sufficiency in a local context.

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