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Preserving Cambodia Town: How A Refugee Community Has Organized Itself

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Ian Nicole Reambonanza on Unsplash This is the fourth 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 ). How does a refugee community organize itself?

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Making Food Systems Work for People of Color: Six Action Steps

NonProfit Quarterly

And in so doing we are challenging the community development field to do better—by creating new tools to support truly equitable food-oriented development. Many large community development financial institutions , credit unions, and foundations present themselves as community-based food financing leaders.

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Gumbo for the Struggle: Recipes of Liberation from the Cultural Kitchen

NonProfit Quarterly

So too is collaboration. BlacSpace is a cooperative that brings together expertise in real-estate ownership and development, cooperative structures, business systems, art making, activism, and cultural anchoring, stimulating conversations about cultural kitchens and a unique collaboration to cultivate them.

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How to Advance a Regenerative Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

In its first two years, the NEW Fellowship was funded by Communities of Opportunity (which receives support from King County and the Seattle Foundation) and the New Economy Washington Funders Collaborative. The Seattle Foundation has been a leader in a national movement to build Black funds.

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Impact Investing Can’t Deliver by Chasing Market Returns

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Jim Bildner In 2012, more than a decade ago, in response to a growing wave of impact investing obsession, Kevin Starr warned that impact investing was doomed to fail: “Few solutions that meet the fundamental needs of the poor will get you your money back,” he observed, and “overcoming market failure requires subsidy.”

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