Community Development Homelessness Values 
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. That was part of the problem.
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
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. Second, educate the staff and board.
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NonProfit Quarterly
OCTOBER 16, 2024
Limited housing stock impacts families by raising their housing costs to unaffordable levels, forcing people to move or face homelessness. For congregations, redevelopment of underutilized properties can unlock value and create measurable social and economic impact, especially in distressed communities.
NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 12, 2025
Too often, elitesuse fancy tools of municipal finance like tax increment financing to expense development costs onto taxpayers, even as they profit. Instead, the money goes to pay back the bondholders and generate profit often considerable profit for real estate developers.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
OCTOBER 16, 2023
CNN recently reported that “California has spent billions to fight homelessness. The second example illustrates an important intermediary step towards eliminating homelessness from a Zero-Problem Philanthropy vision. Yet, replicating this transformation in many other hotels in New York did not lower the number of homeless people.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
MAY 17, 2023
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.
NonProfit Quarterly
JUNE 13, 2023
The Value of Faith Institutions Several church leaders—both from Jackson and beyond—spoke at a plenary session about the challenges and opportunities facing faith institutions. They provide social services, healthcare screening, workforce development, and education.” Stephanie Swepson-Twitty of Eagle Market Streets Development Corp.
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