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

NonProfit Quarterly

Many times, government and nonprofit representatives had come to Starleen’s Summit Lake neighborhood and indicated that things were going to improve, but not much ever came of it. “My Supported by five national foundations— JPB , Knight , Kresge , Rockefeller , and William Penn —each city received $4 million from the funder collaborative.

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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.

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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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Containing Gentrification: A Story from the Nation’s Capital

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Bruno Guerrero on unsplash.com This is the third article in NPQ ’s series titled Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. Ogunsalu spoke at the Purple Line Corridor Coalition ’s first “Annual Celebration of Community and Leadership.” Construction began in 2017.

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Fighting for Cleaner Air in East Boston

NonProfit Quarterly

Through collaborative action, Mothers Out Front East Boston is fighting for the right to breathe clean air and live and work in a community that is safe and healthy. We also need our government agencies to protect us. We are demanding equal protection and equal enforcement of environmental laws and regulations.

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How Land Banks and Community Land Trusts Can Partner for Racial Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

Back in 2012, longtime CLT advocate John Emmeus Davis wrote in Shelterforce that collaboration between the land banks and CLTs is, to use the hackneyed phrase, an obvious “win-win.” Local government wins because properties are back in productive use, generating taxes.

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Reshaping the Idea of Rural America: Stories from Our Communities

NonProfit Quarterly

Coproduced by Partners for Rural Transformation, a coalition of six regional community development financial institutions, and NPQ , authors highlight efforts to address multi-generational poverty in Appalachia, the rural West, Indian Country, South Texas, and the Mississippi Delta.

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