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How to Recharge a Nonprofit-Led Affordable Housing Delivery System

NonProfit Quarterly

In fact, a recently released Government Accountability Office report indicates the five largest corporate owners possess 300,000 of the nearly 450,000 institutional investor-owned homes across the United States, a trend that has only further consolidated the market.

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The Pitfalls of Personal Judgment

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Likewise, a case manager may succumb to “availability bias,” favoring actions that require less effort on the case manager’s part and prioritizing the low-hanging fruit of easily solvable success. Without diagnostic controls, nuanced biases can skew a case manager’s priorities.

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When It Comes to Promoting Prosperity, Production Beats Consumption

Stanford Social Innovation Review

There is solid evidence pointing to promising interventions yet to be scaled—such as support to firms on management practices and export facilitation—that encourage firms’ productivity and performance. Various others work in the space in between, like Charter Cities Institute on urban development and economic clusters.

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New data for strategic disaster philanthropy 

Candid

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) provided $22 billion in official development assistance. Non-DAC government donors and multilateral organizations contributed an additional $2.8 The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) distributed $3.2 billion.

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Housing and Climate: Funding Holistic Solutions

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For example: Community organizers in San Juan, Puerto Rico , persuaded legislators to establish a community land trust to prevent resort developers from grabbing land from low-income residents who must evacuate so the government can dredge a polluted waterway that floods when it rains.

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Fisheries and Stewardship: Lessons from Native Hawaiian Aquaculture

NonProfit Quarterly

There are many lessons to be learned from Indigenous aquaculture practices, especially in the areas of climate mitigation, adaptation, resilience, resource management, and food sovereignty. Kamakau described, the existence of a loko i‘a within a functioning ecosystem or landscape alone indicates abundance. 4 (See Figure 1.).

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“Educational Purposes”: Nonprofit Land as a Vital Site of Struggle

NonProfit Quarterly

After decades of urban disinvestment, many urbanites celebrate these schools as “anchor institutions” to help drive their area’s big comeback or renewal. Given my work, it specifically focuses on university-driven urban development. 39 And interest in these nonprofit land struggles has gone global.