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What’s Next for CDFIs? The Challenge and Opportunity of Place

NonProfit Quarterly

In these turbulent times, many leaders of the nations growing network of community development financial institutions (CDFIs)which now collectively manage $468 billion in assets, a 615 percent increase over the past decadehave high hopes. Image Credit: Brian Koellish on iStock Nearly a third of US communities are CDFI deserts.

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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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Economic Justice—Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

Image: “One Sided” by Yvonne Coleman Burney/ www.artbyycolemanburney.com Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.” 5 Tenants are confronting [corporate] capture by organizing toward a world in which housing is guaranteed as a public good.

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New York Brings Power to the People

NonProfit Quarterly

This is the second article from A Green New Deal on the Ground , a series produced with the Climate and Community Project, a progressive climate policy think tank developing cutting-edge research at the climate and inequality nexus. Last week, the Build Public Renewables Act passed in the New York State Senate.

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Black Co-op Farms: Building a Worker Strategy in Mississippi

NonProfit Quarterly

Mississippi has a rich culture, but for generations, its Black communities have experienced health inequities intertwined with discrimination, poverty, and racial exclusion. Although farmland is abundant in the region, the number of Black-owned family farms has dwindled. Some Black farmer co-ops, however, predate the formation of MAC.

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The Nonprofit Sector and Social Change: A Conversation between Cyndi Suarez and Claire Dunning

NonProfit Quarterly

My whole trajectory through the nonprofit sector and analysis of race and power comes from working with those organizations and having the reality of that work hit up against the visions for liberation that I had. There was a lot of administrative work, but then I also got to sit in on some of the meetings. I kept thinking, yes!