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What’s Next for Community Development Finance?

NonProfit Quarterly

Posters at the conference highlighted that the first OFN conference in 1985 attracted 21 community development loan funds with a combined $27 million in assets under management. By contrast, according to the US SIF (Sustainable Investment Forum), the CDFI industry (including community development banks and credit unions) had $457.9

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How to Help People of Color Become Homeowners: Data from Philadelphia

NonProfit Quarterly

Understanding Philadelphias Distressed Housing Markets Reinvestment Funds Market Value Analysis tool creates a typology of housing markets based on statistical analysis of key metrics such as price, vacancy, tenure, and investment. Investors and Changing Market Values Real estate investors look for neighborhoods where they can make a profit.

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The Next Generation of Mutualism

Stanford Social Innovation Review

They connected into networks with leadership that can organize multiple groups around common purposes, such as local economic development. This group activity requires people to learn skills for resolving differences. Next, weve invited new mutualist enthusiasts to pay a fee for this educational activity.

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US Nonprofit Sector Documents Its Own Powerlessness, but What Will We Do?

NonProfit Quarterly

Nonprofits canand ought toengage in a wide range of civic and election-related activities. Since 1973, I have started or led 14 nonprofit enterprises in the arts, community development, and civic engagement sectors. Significantly fewer nonprofits know what advocacy activities are legally allowed compared to 20 years ago.

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Ready, Set, Activate Your Digital Audience to Fall in LOVE with your Brand

Pam Moore

We are living in exciting times with the advancements in technology, artificial intelligence, live video streaming, user behavior analysis, data measurement and analysis, communication mediums, social media marketing, social networking and the power at our fingertips to bring human beings and communities together.

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A Political Roadmap to Social Housing: How Do We Win?

NonProfit Quarterly

What becomes critical here is to capture these rental units for public use by implementing tenant and community right of first refusal options and prioritizing access for nonprofits (such as community development corporations ). Nonprofit housing groups, in short, can be movement allies, not opponents.

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Seeking the Willing: A Friendship Across Political Lines

NonProfit Quarterly

But how does friendship, these bridging relationships, work in practice when powerful forces actively profit from keeping us divided? Cassie is a registered Democrat who works in public media and has a background in nonprofit organizations and community development. It demonstrates humility and genuine curiosity.

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