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Making Policy Work for Rural Communities: The Value of Community Voice

NonProfit Quarterly

Coproduced by Partners for Rural Transformation, a coalition of six regional community development financial institutions, and NPQ , authors highlight efforts to address multi-generational poverty in Appalachia, the rural West, Indian Country, South Texas, and the Mississippi Delta.

Values 109
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Containing Gentrification: A Story from the Nation’s Capital

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Bruno Guerrero on unsplash.com This is the third article in NPQ ’s series titled Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. Among the coalition participants is the organization I work for, the Latino Economic Development Corporation. Construction began in 2017.

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Ancestor in the Making: A Future Where Philanthropy’s Legacy Is Stopping the Bad and Building the New

NonProfit Quarterly

And rich people who could afford to isolate, not have to go into an office, could afford healthcare, got richer. Backlash against billionaires spurred community efforts to retain the wealth that their labor created, leading to a growth in cooperative businesses. Two things changed how wealth was managed.

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Reshaping the Idea of Rural America: Stories from Our Communities

NonProfit Quarterly

Coproduced by Partners for Rural Transformation, a coalition of six regional community development financial institutions, and NPQ , authors highlight efforts to address multi-generational poverty in Appalachia, the rural West, Indian Country, South Texas, and the Mississippi Delta.

Poverty 92
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Ending Persistent Poverty in Rural America: The Role of CDFIs

NonProfit Quarterly

Coproduced by Partners for Rural Transformation, a coalition of six regional community development financial institutions, and NPQ , the authors highlight efforts to address multigenerational poverty in Appalachia, the rural West, Indian Country, South Texas, and the Mississippi Delta.

Poverty 117
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Changing the Health System: A Community-Led Approach Rises in Rhode Island

NonProfit Quarterly

Public health professionals and community developers—along with community activists—were having “aha” moments about the linkage between social determinants of health and terrible, systemic health outcomes for people of color and those living on low incomes. One HEZ lead is a community health center with multiple sites.

Health 111
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Helping Movements Meet the Moment: What Philanthropy Can and Must Do

NonProfit Quarterly

As a result, the North Star for both organizing and giving needs to be enhancing governing power. A 10-year investment in place-based change, TCE began with an elaborate theory of change and soon discarded it to just listen to what communities were telling them. Some foundations are stepping up to this reality.