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Building Community through Holistic Strategy: A Story from a Seattle Immigrant Suburb

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: TuiPhotoengineer on istock.com This is the fifth and final 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 ).

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Ancestor in the Making: A Future Where Philanthropy’s Legacy Is Stopping the Bad and Building the New

NonProfit Quarterly

First, democratic funds like Seed Commons, 4 Ujima Fund, 5 and the Just Transition Integrated Capital Fund gave us a new model for how communities could steward and govern capital together. These new laws channeled philanthropic assets into municipal bonds and community development loan funds, which stabilized local municipalities.

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Experiments in Community Ownership Taking Charge of Commercial Real Estate

NonProfit Quarterly

With this in mind, we created Community Owned Real Estate—a unique, collaborative project to acquire commercial buildings on the Eastside of Los Angeles. The project is led by three local, mission-driven organizations: Inclusive Action, East LA Community Corporation, and Little Tokyo Service Center. Traditional views of “risk.”

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

Nelson Colón of the Puerto Rico Community Foundation, and Clara Miller, president emerita of the Heron Foundation—come from philanthropy. What would it take to fully fund the human capital, governance, and advocacy costs of nonprofits? The main goal is to empower workers and consumers and improve the quality of community life.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

The federal government and its welfare state programs—often known as the New Deal, and including federal programs and reforms such as Social Security and the Works Progress Administration, were forged in the world-historical political events of the first half of the 20th century and the rise of a powerful labor movement.