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How Limited Equity Co-ops Can Sustain Affordable Homeownership

NonProfit Quarterly

Opportunities and Challenges LECs offer significant opportunities for community development practitioners and more importantly for low- and moderate-income households seeking to own a home. Additionally, many jurisdictions have extended a right to first refusal specifically to residents in manufactured housing communities.

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Restoring Our Capacities: How an Asset Lens Can Serve Movements Today

NonProfit Quarterly

Credit: The ABCD Institute and Pacific Community Solutions State of the Movements is a recurring NPQ column dedicated to tracking the pulse of social movements and the solidarity economy in 2025. Asset-based community development! What do we want? When do we want it? See: John Deere and the Bereavement Counselor.)

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Organizing for the Long Haul: How to Build a Network for Land and Liberation

NonProfit Quarterly

Virtually everyone I know is finding ways to supportand celebrate the successes ofthe vital struggles being led by federal workers , nonprofit workers , and community development financial institutions. Support community production employing both digital fabrication technologies and regenerative agriculture-based materials and energy.

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The dos and don’ts for driving community-led impact 

Candid

From eastern Tennessee to Californias Central Valley, we at Save the Children have seen how community-led approaches deliver resultsfrom education to housing to community development. Here are some dos and donts for supporting community-led impact. Dont impose unnecessary burdens.

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How UPROSE Is Creating Clean Energy in Brooklyn

NonProfit Quarterly

The solar developer builds clean-energy projects that help communities acquire long-term wealth and energy assets through impact investing, technical support, and project financing. This type of community-owned solar will be the first of its kind in Brooklyn.” How will Sunset Park Solar work? says Yeampierre.

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??How Community-Based Public Space Can Build Civic Trust: Lessons from Akron

NonProfit Quarterly

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. In Akron, more than 20 public, nonprofit, and community groups came together to form the Civic Commons team.

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Local Solutions to Federal Problems: Moving Climate Dollars to Communities

NonProfit Quarterly

The same elements [needed for] BIPOC communities to benefit from public funding are also the most promising approaches to address…climate change. We derive these findings from a report we collaborated on, recently published by the National Resources Defense Council, that explored these issues.