article thumbnail

Why Resident Ownership Matters

NonProfit Quarterly

Emily Thaden: What’s happening in manufactured housing communities, across the country, is that increasingly there are private equity investors moving into the space. And so, this is putting pressure on communities, because owners are putting manufactured housing communities up for sale. View the full webinar here.

article thumbnail

How Resident-Owned Communities Can Create Mass Affordable Homeownership

NonProfit Quarterly

An underappreciated tool for closing this gap—potentially benefitting millions of US households—involves resident-owned manufactured housing communities. A Freddie Mac Multifamily survey conducted in 2019 estimated 45,000 manufactured housing communities operating across the United States. There is another option—a cooperative option.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

New Report Finds America’s Top Polluters

NonProfit Quarterly

Community Impact The industrial sector in the United States—the part of the economy made up of manufacturing and the production of goods—is to blame for almost a quarter of all domestic greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Sierra Club. For some people, like Etienne, the work is generational. This resulted in the loss of 1.6

article thumbnail

How to Create Exciting Social and Digital Content for Unsexy, Boring and Regulated Industries

Pam Moore

It's even more challenging if your business is in a highly regulated industry such as healthcare, financial, insurance or government. Marketers working on government programs. Marketers working in manufacturing. Even if your product or service is “sexy” it can be tough. Real estate agents. Real estate brokers.

article thumbnail

“Forever Chemicals” Are Endangering Our Collective Health

NonProfit Quarterly

They have since been used to manufacture a myriad of consumer goods. These chemicals are omnipresent in the manufacturing facilities where such products are made. The federal government has taken some action on PFAS. In 2023 alone, the company’s gross profit topped $14 billion.

Health 130
article thumbnail

Content Marketing for Regulated, Boring and Unsexy Industries

Pam Moore

It's even more challenging if your business is in a highly regulated industry such as healthcare, financial, insurance or government. Marketers working on government programs. Marketers working in manufacturing. Even if your product or service is “sexy” it can be tough. Real estate agents. Real estate brokers.

Marketing 132
article thumbnail

Employee Ownership Policy Makes Major Gains—Next Up, Implementation

NonProfit Quarterly

Representative Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) The shape of government relations for worker co-ops has experienced a massive shift in the past five years. It may not be immediately clear the connection between semiconductors and cooperatives; manufacturing makes up just a little over five percent of the worker co-op field. How does this work?