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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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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.

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A Primer for Incubating Child Care Businesses

NonProfit Quarterly

The need to develop more childcare businesses is obvious, but how to build and sustain viable childcare businesses is not. the community development financial institution where I work, lends to families and businesses throughout the state of Maine. What can be done to address this gap? Coastal Enterprises, Inc.,

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Organizing a Community Around Food Sovereignty

NonProfit Quarterly

In the series, urban and rural grassroots leaders from across the United States share how their communities are developing and implementing strategies—grounded in local places, cultures, and histories—to shift power and achieve systemic change.

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Setting a Co-op Table for Food Justice in Louisville

NonProfit Quarterly

They held regular monthly meetings at the Joshua Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church in the city’s West End, and they secured a grant to cover childcare to enable those with young children to attend. To facilitate volunteer recruitment, they developed a series of helpful tasks suitable for recurrent or one-off participation.

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Giving Trends in Mexico: Millennials and Gen Z Drive Rise in Online Giving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The top three causes are medical expenses (25%), start-up costs for a social enterprise (25%), and disaster relief (23%). 144 donors whose top 5 causes are animals and wildlife (19%), children and youth (15%), environment (12%), education (9%), and community development (8%). 81% of donors in Mexico volunteer.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

I could see those patients in my office, give them some medication, and see them again at their follow-up appointment a month later, their situation basically unchanged—or I could do something different. Developing a New Approach: The Health Equity Zone Concept. How did we have it so wrong?

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