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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. But numbers only get you so far.

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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 ). Photo courtesy of CCDC.

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How Guarantees Can Advance Community Development and Racial Equity

NonProfit Quarterly

At the same time, many community development nonprofits face challenges in securing the capital needed to carry out their core missions and, importantly, to test new ideas and strategies. From inception, the pool was centered on community development financing activities and emphasized racial, gender, and economic equity.

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You Are Not The Expert: Tips for Designing Content for Communities Not Your Own

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

In each of my roles, there have been many contributors to the final products: either as editors, reviewers, designers, or writers. Each person catches something different, allowing for the best end product that will truly resonate with and be accessible to your audience.

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What are the Biggest Challenges in Getting (and Keeping) Your Nonprofit’s Staff and Volunteers?

Blue Avocado

Kathy Hickman from PGM Community Development Note: The opinions and product/service recommendations expressed above are solely those of the participants and do not necessarily represent those of Blue Avocado. Submissions may be edited for length and clarity.

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Day in the Life of a Nonprofit Communicator – Kellie Scholma

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Tell us what you do in a typical day as a nonprofit communications pro. I am the Communications Coordinator for the Disaster Response Services (DRS) program of World Renew , a faith-based international community development and disaster response organization. I have been with World Renew for almost seven years now.

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Big Ideas, Small Budgets: Finding Abundance in a NonProfit Marketing Budget

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Despite all of these perks (and much to my mother’s dismay) in the summer of 2014, I made the jump from this well-resourced corporate marketing gig to working at a small community development nonprofit with an equally small budget. They also have photo editing and illustration software and templates available for additional cost. .

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