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How Guarantees Can Advance Community Development and Racial Equity

NonProfit Quarterly

At the same time, many community development nonprofits face challenges in securing the capital needed to carry out their core missions and, importantly, to test new ideas and strategies. At the most basic level, a guarantee is akin to automobile insurance. At the most basic level, a guarantee is akin to automobile insurance.

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Building Community through Holistic Strategy: A Story from a Seattle Immigrant Suburb

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: TuiPhotoengineer on istock.com This is the fifth and final article in NPQ ’s series titled Building Power, Fighting Displacement: Stories from Asian Pacific America , coproduced with the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development ( National CAPACD ).

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Preserving Cambodia Town: How A Refugee Community Has Organized Itself

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Ian Nicole Reambonanza on Unsplash This is the fourth article in NPQ ’s series titled Building Power, Fighting Displacement: Stories from Asian Pacific America, coproduced with the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development ( National CAPACD ). How does a refugee community organize itself?

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How to Align Assets with Mission: Small Steps That Nonprofits Can Take

NonProfit Quarterly

A salient example is of organizations that are focused on community development but invest in mass incarceration. Liquidity policies help organizations understand the resources needed to carry out ongoing operating activities, but even liquid assets can be managed with an eye towards mission.

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How Black Entrepreneurs Forged a Community Path to Business Success

NonProfit Quarterly

ii] Cooperative organizations can be federations of workers, farmers, and landowners; mutual insurance companies; or banks and credit unions. Their efforts also created mutual-aid, burial, and beneficial societies and insurance companies, as well as buying clubs, which were often led by women and connected to religious institutions. [iv]

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How to Close the Racial Homeownership Gap

NonProfit Quarterly

A Community Finance Solution While barriers to homeownership persist for households of color, these barriers are possible to overcome. The product also discounts deferred student debt, does not require mortgage insurance, and accepts credit scores as low as 580. (By The credit score barrier is significant.

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Building Public Support for Employee Ownership: Lessons from Colorado

NonProfit Quarterly

million active employee-owners. The primary employee-ownership technical assistance providers in the state—the Center for Community Wealth Building , Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center , and Rocky Mountain Farmers Union Cooperative Development Center —now have direct support from OEDIT to advance conversions.