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Nonprofits Need Equity Too: The Case for Providing “Enterprise Capital”

NonProfit Quarterly

In 2008, with $5 million in enterprise capital from the Ford Foundation and investments from four partner organizations, ROC USA created a sustainable model to help residents purchase their communities when they come up for sale. New staff positions to increase financial and programmatic capacity.

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Improvisation Over Strategy: What Nonprofit Managers Can Learn from Theater

NonProfit Quarterly

Sara Razavi: Within the CDFI [ community development financial institution ] space, we are a nonprofit loan fund. But I find I draw on it quite a bit because theater is such a collaborative art, and I am talking more about the collaborative nature of theater. So, that’s where the collaboration comes in.