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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.

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How Limited Equity Co-ops Can Sustain Affordable Homeownership

NonProfit Quarterly

Policies such as redlining , as highlighted in Richard Rothsteins The Color of Law , created entrenched housing inequities. Additionally, millions of Americans reside in manufactured housing communities, often called mobile home parks, which do provide affordable housing.

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Why Do Wheelchair Repairs Take So Long?

NonProfit Quarterly

The group is documenting these experiences in the hope of making legislative change, similar to a law passed in Colorado in 2022. As Christina Mills, executive director of the California Foundation for Independent Living Centers and a wheelchair user, told the Los Angeles Times , “My wheelchair is my legs.

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Why Reparations Can Counter the Legacy of a 50-Year “War on Drugs”

NonProfit Quarterly

The War on Drugs Is Personal The War on Drugs has been a half-century-long, concerted, militarized campaign led by the US government to enforce prohibitions on the importation, manufacture, use, sale, and distribution of substances deemed to be illegal, advancing a punitive rather than a public health approach to drug use.

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Appeals Court Rules Funding Process A Contract, Not A Grant

The NonProfit Times

The full ruling is available here: [link] “The majority ruled that an 1866 law designed to provide economic freedom to newly-freed slaves actually prohibits the Fearless Foundation from providing grants to Black women. Schwartz, partner at law firm Gibson Dunn & Crutcher wrote to The NonProfit Times. “As

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SSIR’s 2023 Social Innovation Reading List

Stanford Social Innovation Review

How do we organize to put Joy’s Law, and more broadly collective intelligence, to work?” Again, governments are not businesses, and universities are not automobile manufacturers. How does our recruiting need to change if we are drawing more on others in the ecosystem? Do we know how to put together really diverse teams?

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A Modern Nonprofit Podcast: Talking Through WIN-WIN (Warehouse) Scenarios

The Charity CFO

WIN Warehouse began in 1991 by Clinton Laws. manufacturer, distributor, consumer processes.) Travis’ dad, Clinton, recognized the value of Tax Law 170 Charitable, etc. Today, we spoke with his son and our guest, Travis. The mission is simple, to connect nonprofit organizations with corporate excess inventory.

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