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Building Community Capacity in Rural East Texas: The Long Lift

NonProfit Quarterly

Temple ) and a community development financial institution ( Communities Unlimited ) are teaming to develop bottom-up structural solutions to building rural capacity. When we talk about economic development in East Texas, we often like to start with a the figure below, which comes from a T.L.L.

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Scaling Deep, Not Up: Lessons from Detroit

NonProfit Quarterly

Leaders in many places facing economic decline—be they post-industrial cities in the Rust Belt or depleted communities in former coal mining towns—are increasingly looking to entrepreneurship as a means of revitalization. As a result, the ventures’ growth was not fast, but steady and durable.

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Teaching Cooperative Intelligence, for a Solidarity Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

To advance this work, a group of us at the Bronx Cooperative Development Institute (better known as BCDI), along with community partner nonprofits, have collaborated over the past four years to develop answers to the question: How can high schools support economic democracy in the Bronx?