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Community Development Must Center Power Building: A San Francisco Story

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Matt Briney on unsplash.com This is the second 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 ).

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Can Compassionate Lending Bridge the Racial Wealth Divide?

NonProfit Quarterly

Originating in Eastern Europe centuries ago, these programs helped Jewish communities overcome financial hardship without the burden of interest, which is prohibited by Orthodox Jewish law within Jewish communities. Across the country in Webster, TX, the Multicultural Center (MCC) offers a third community partnership example.

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Faith Communities and Affordable Housing: Challenges and Opportunities

NonProfit Quarterly

This unaffordability has broad national implications because it limits labor mobility, productivity, and economic growth. The bill allows these developments to bypass cumbersome rezoning and (provided certain conditions are met) waives applicable California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) laws.

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Putting Homeownership Preservation on Philanthropy’s Agenda

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This makes it easy for predatory developers to buy one of the shares from an heir—say, a sibling who wants to sell the property—and then use their influence to force the sale of the entire property so that it can be developed. Without being able to prove ownership via a clear title, then, heirs can lose their home.

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Gumbo for the Struggle: Recipes of Liberation from the Cultural Kitchen

NonProfit Quarterly

Based in Oakland, CA, and launched in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the cooperative is forging a table of Black women-led, community-based organizations so Black cultural production across the city can thrive. BAMBD CDC is an arts-based organization invested in community development writ large.

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Democracy in Peril: In South Africa, Will Philanthropy Back Economic Justice?

NonProfit Quarterly

The other is that global philanthropy itself is under threat as South African “populist” opposition advocates for so-called “ foreign agent laws.” Similar laws have already rapidly spread across Europe and Central Asia , yet South Africa has avoided them so far. Today, that democracy is fraying. With an estimated 55.5

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Nonprofits as Battlegrounds for Democracy

NonProfit Quarterly

7 They are the product of what happened when the American state assigned democratic processes of deliberation, representation, and participation to nonprofit entities, and the consequences of submitting those private entities to the whims of politics and the pressures of scarcity.