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Building an Economy with Purpose: The Transformative Potential of Baby Bonds

NonProfit Quarterly

Extensive research shows that public policy can shape economic outcomes. The public can demand economic policies that benefit the broader population. A key question becomes: What kind of economic policies should the public demand? Wealth is a fundamental measure of stability and opportunity.

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How to Recharge a Nonprofit-Led Affordable Housing Delivery System

NonProfit Quarterly

Here it is important to understand that nonprofits have traditionally focused on the housing aftermarket—the platforms, processes, public policy, and market activity that brings distressed and defaulted mortgaged property back to market. Currently, about 60 percent of housing stock comprises single-family homes constructed before 1980.

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What’s Your Start Agenda?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As Liz McKenna, an assistant professor of public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School has empha siz ed , “Social movements often operate over years, decades. DignityMoves provides solutions that include sourcing both the capital needed for the construction of interim emergency housing as well as project managing the construction itself.

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Reimagining the Role of Business in Protecting Biodiversity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Solugen is currently constructing a commercial biomanufacturing facility to scale production—and it is just one of many innovators in this market. Instead of constructing a new office, manufacturing or retail site, companies can first restore existing buildings. Contribute to ecosystem restoration.

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Segregation Helped Build Fortunes. What Does Philanthropy Owe Now?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Claire Dunning In early 1926, Cafritz Construction placed an advertisement in The Washington Post celebrating the speed with which their “Life-time Homes” were selling in the Petworth neighborhood of Washington, DC. Perhaps potential buyers would be swayed by the “superior construction” or the “unusually big lots.”

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Calling All Nonprofit Champions: Join the Tennessee Nonprofit Network's Community Action Councils!

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

As Tennessee's first statewide nonprofit association, Tennessee Nonprofit Network provides essential resources, research, training, and public policy support to empower nonprofits of all sizes. Strategic Thinking & Problem-Solving: The ability to analyze issues, offer constructive feedback, and contribute to strategic discussions.

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Whose Capital? Our Capital! The Power of Workers’ Pensions for the Common Good

NonProfit Quarterly

By investing billions in affordable housing, we can start to address the growing housing crisis and help workers acquire homes, thereby further building their retirement security while creating construction jobs and stimulating local economies. 18 As AFSCME Local 3299 lays it out: B.