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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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How to Preserve Existing Affordable Housing: The Value of Human Scale

NonProfit Quarterly

In Washington, DC, the city’s Department of Housing and Community Development reports that 18,300 units of affordable housing of this kind became unaffordable between 2006 and 2017. Even though Washington, DC, has lost many affordable housing units, its community ownership legislation has helped stem the tide.

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Facebook Groups for Business in a Nutshell

Pam Moore

Facebook Groups provide a unique opportunity for brands of all sizes to build community, increase brand awareness, generate leads and even increase sales of products or services. Or maybe you have a Facebook business Group but it's not delivering any value for your business. People don't just buy things, they join things.

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How to Close the Racial Homeownership Gap

NonProfit Quarterly

We know that the racial homeownership gap is, in large measure, the product of historic redlining , as well as past and ongoing discrimination. Other structural barriers lower the home’s value from the start—limiting opportunities to grow generational wealth. There are several points throughout where systemic inequities arise.

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Housing Innovation in Rural America

NonProfit Quarterly

Coproduced by Partners for Rural Transformation , a coalition of six regional community development financial institutions, and NPQ , authors highlight efforts to address multi-generational poverty in Appalachia, the rural West, Indian Country, South Texas, and the Mississippi Delta. A single modular unit or “box” is 288 square feet.

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Ending Persistent Poverty in Rural America: The Role of CDFIs

NonProfit Quarterly

Coproduced by Partners for Rural Transformation, a coalition of six regional community development financial institutions, and NPQ , the authors highlight efforts to address multigenerational poverty in Appalachia, the rural West, Indian Country, South Texas, and the Mississippi Delta. Regions Bank was its only financial institution.

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Power of Trust and Intention in Earning Attention of Your Ideal Customer and Audience

Pam Moore

Why you must do your research on how to best leverage the social networks to provide the most value. Why you must know who you are and how you can provide the greatest value to your audience. Why the right attention at the right time is more important than only short term goals and objectives of attention. Freshbooks.