NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 17, 2023
This article introduces a new series, titled Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. For decades, community development financial institutions have delivered capital into communities and regions that otherwise suffer from disinvestment. This is true in urban areas and, critically, rural communities.
NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 24, 2023
This article is the second in the series Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. In America’s rural areas of deep poverty, over 60 percent of the residents are BIPOC. However, in America’s rural areas of deep poverty, over 60 percent of the residents are BIPOC. This disproportionality demands systemic solutions.
NonProfit Quarterly
JUNE 21, 2023
Without access to quality childcare, many parents cannot work full time and become trapped in a cycle of poverty. The need to develop more childcare businesses is obvious, but how to build and sustain viable childcare businesses is not. To date, through this incubator, 19 new businesses licensed for a total of 390 children have opened.
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
Often, the result is rural poverty. percent of rural residents lived below the poverty line, compared to 11.9 It supports a population of over 380,000 residents, 21 percent of whom live in poverty, 15 percent of whom are Black, and 15 percent Latinx. As of 2019, an estimated 15.4 percent of urban and suburban residents.
NonProfit Quarterly
DECEMBER 8, 2022
While the answers remain complicated, we must use our collective power and community agency to address our needs. A Camden community vision emerges. Census figures confirm that Camden is a poor city (with a poverty rate of 33.6 However, persistent poverty plagues the city’s residents. percent) and overwhelming BIPOC (50.5
NonProfit Quarterly
OCTOBER 24, 2023
Ongoing neglect and isolation led to entrenched, concentrated poverty and a growing distrust of civic leaders. The result of their work is more places for people to gather and experience nature, increased social cohesion, restored civic trust, and perhaps most importantly, community development that benefits all residents.
NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 13, 2023
Fifty percent of its residents were born outside of the US and identify as Latino/a ; about half of all families in the neighborhood live below the official poverty line. Unsurprisingly, East Boston also has higher rates of children with asthma and adults with pulmonary disease than other parts of Boston.
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