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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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Scott Resumes Giving Away Millions In Large Chunks

The NonProfit Times

This is Scott’s second grant to LISC, one of the nation’s largest community development organizations. In the Fall of 2023, organizations top-rated by their peers advanced to a second round of review by an external Evaluation Panel recruited for relevant experience to the cause and underwent a final round of due diligence.

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From Impact Investing to “Impact-First” Investing—What Is the Field Learning?

NonProfit Quarterly

The report notes that in their design, the funds vary greatly in terms of asset classes (small business, growth enterprises, real estate); sectors (agriculture, reproductive health, affordable housing, technology); and the size of individual investments (from a few thousand dollars each, to $1 million or more for a single real estate project) (16).

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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. I was suddenly faced with aging technology and a budget under $5,000 – including printing costs.

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From Scarcity to Inspiration: Rethinking the Value of Nonprofit Facilities

NonProfit Quarterly

For years, I have directed IFF , a community development financial institution that specializes in nonprofit facilities lending. A Hierarchy of Nonprofit Facilities’ Needs After 30 years in community development, I have come to think of nonprofit facilities as existing on a continuum of need.

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22 Statistics About #GivingTuesday Donors Worldwide

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Community development – 3%. Public media and communications – 0%. Science and technology – 0%. Human and civil rights / racial justice – 3%. Disability rights – 2%. Corporate accountability – 0%. LGBTQIA+ – 1%. Research and public policy – 1%.

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Owning Our Neighborhood: A Community Organizing Story from Boston

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Matthew Moloney on unsplash.com This is the third 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 ). What does gentrification look like?