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Preserving Cambodia Town: How A Refugee Community Has Organized Itself

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Ian Nicole Reambonanza on Unsplash This is the fourth article in NPQ ’s series titled Building Power, Fighting Displacement: Stories from Asian Pacific America, coproduced with the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development ( National CAPACD ). How does a refugee community organize itself?

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How to Align Assets with Mission: Small Steps That Nonprofits Can Take

NonProfit Quarterly

A salient example is of organizations that are focused on community development but invest in mass incarceration. To integrate mission into an investment policy, some organizations create a separate Impact Investment Policy that broadly defines impact investment values and strategies.

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How to Close the Racial Homeownership Gap

NonProfit Quarterly

Other structural barriers lower the home’s value from the start—limiting opportunities to grow generational wealth. A Community Finance Solution While barriers to homeownership persist for households of color, these barriers are possible to overcome. The causes of the racial homeownership gap are multifaceted.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Chris Briggs on unsplash.com Dr. 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. I was ready for that challenge and opportunity.

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Local Solutions to Federal Problems: Moving Climate Dollars to Communities

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: AndreyPopov on istock.com How can frontline communities access public funding for climate solutions? But some needed elements are clear: these include expertise; values-aligned capacity-building partners; relationships that are built on trust, accountability, and transparency; and flexible funding.

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3 Reasons Your Boss Didn’t Approve Your Social Media Budget and Plan

Pam Moore

Do they not understand the value or the real risk? Do they not understand that there is also risk by ignoring social networks where their current customers, dream customers and community is hanging out? Social Profit Factor will help you develop your plan with goals, objectives and priorities within 30 days!

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Changing Underwriting Rules…for Racial Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

Of the 20 lenders, 10 are community development financial institutions (CDFIs), five are banks, three are credit unions, and two are tribal-affiliated institutions. With collateral, the borrower will have something of value that the lender can use to sell for cash to help repay the loan if necessary.

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