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What’s Next for Community Development Finance?

NonProfit Quarterly

Posters at the conference highlighted that the first OFN conference in 1985 attracted 21 community development loan funds with a combined $27 million in assets under management. By contrast, according to the US SIF (Sustainable Investment Forum), the CDFI industry (including community development banks and credit unions) had $457.9

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Sharing Meals

Stanford Social Innovation Review

One path leads to this arable land being sold to a developer and turned into a small strip mall. In contrast to systems like energy, transportation, or health care, where expertise is more well defined, food expertise tends to be irrefutable, requiring no advanced degree or professional experience.

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” W hat would a nonprofit sector that pursued economic justice look like? The other five work for nonprofit intermediary organizations. Two of them—Dr.

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Building Social Housing from the Ground Up: Grassroots Perspectives

NonProfit Quarterly

Most government housing funding is spent on subsidizing mortgages—primarily for the well-to-do. Now, most government housing funding is spent on subsidizing mortgages —primarily for the well-to-do—and residential land is zoned for single-family homes and suburban sprawl. Social housing campaigns look different in different communities.

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17 Tips To Create An Outstanding Board Development Retreat

Bloomerang

Have you ever sat through a board development retreat and thought, “What a waste of time!” Use the following checklist to make sure you have all the essential elements in place to ensure the boad development retreat is a resounding success. If you’re in the process of planning a retreat, don’t settle!

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Building Our Power: Advancing Climate Justice through Regenerative Finance

NonProfit Quarterly

Practitioners developing financial practices that run counter to those centering monetary profit need to ask ourselves: how do we learn and take wisdom from trying different approaches and keep going, weaving these lessons into more liberatory versions of investing in our future? This means outright rejection is rare.

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What Does a Nonprofit Executive Director Do?

Nonprofit Fixer

Keep the plates spinning Have you ever thought about starting and running a nonprofit? Are you considering applying for or accepting a role as a nonprofit executive director (ED) or CEO? If you have ever been curious about nonprofit leadership, you probably have wondered what a nonprofit executive or CEO does.