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

NonProfit Quarterly

For new construction, larger buildings can result in smaller per-unit costs. The program is intended to preemptively address the displacement pressure expected from the construction of The Obama Presidential Center. Image credit: stevegeer on istock.com Affordable housing programs often neglect small buildings.

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Faith Communities and Affordable Housing: Challenges and Opportunities

NonProfit Quarterly

Over the past decade, both secular building interests and dozens of churches and religious organizations have planned, financed, and constructed affordable housing and community development projects across the United States and Canada.

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What To Do About Fundraising’s Dark Side

The Agitator

But frankly, we wish we were getting even more concerned and constructive response. Lean on the AFP and DMA to use their muscle on behalf of honest nonprofits and fundraisers like you. Advocate for regulations that both reflect the strategic realities of nonprofit finance and refuse to tolerate fraud.

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Getting Federal Money to Communities: A Story from Puerto Rico

NonProfit Quarterly

As a Puerto Rico-based nonprofit that leverages community-based abandonment inventories, community–municipal partnerships, a rehabilitation and construction team, and in-house legal expertise to convert abandoned buildings and lots into opportunities for community-led development, the lack of access to financing nearly destroyed the organization.

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Free Press, Democracy, and the Threat of Trump’s Illiberal Regime

NonProfit Quarterly

In Enemy Construction and the Press, legal scholars RonNell Andersen Jones and Lisa Grow Sun ominously argue that future potential limitations on press freedoms and access will impede the presss ability to serve important societal functions and thus will directly damage democracy. Any one institution may fail, Baum said.