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Anchoring Communities: How to Combat Displacement Through Asset Ownership

NonProfit Quarterly

Credit: Xizi (Cecilia) Hua on Flickr Across the country, Black, Latine, Indigenous, and Asian American and Pacific Islander communities that were being priced out of their neighborhoods—displaced by speculation, rezoning, and outside interests—are now deciding what gets built and who benefits from it.

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What Does Centering Native Justice Require? A New Report Has Answers

NonProfit Quarterly

Michael Roberts (Tlingit), First Nations Development Institute What does justice mean in Native American communities? Those are two of the big questions asked in a new report from the First Nations Development Institute (First Nations). Our voices are invisible. The issue of sovereignty, the authors note, has multiple facets.

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Scaling Impact: How Mergers Can Advance Housing in Communities

NonProfit Quarterly

One place where affordable housing differs from renewables is a relative lack of openness to mergers, which places many nonprofit housing firms in a potentially vulnerable position. From where I stand, as the leader of the National Housing Trust, a national housing nonprofit, I think it might. Could that change?

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Supporting nonprofit and mission-driven affordable housing providers 

Candid

With a shortage of seven million affordable homes for the lowest-income families , cratering supply is leading to escalating housing costs, dampening economic prospects for people in urban, rural, Tribal, and suburban communities in every state and territory. In February 2025, our organization received from the U.S.

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Making Policy Work for Rural Communities: The Value of Community Voice

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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Building Social Housing from the Ground Up: Grassroots Perspectives

NonProfit Quarterly

Social housing is not just about providing shelter but creating high-quality, permanently affordable housing across a range of incomes that are owned or controlled by a public agency, a nonprofit, or a cooperative of tenants themselves. Social housing campaigns look different in different communities.

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2024 Nonprofit Voter Guide

MNA Association

We know that decisions made in Helena and in Washington, DC have an enormous impact on our work as nonprofits. We also know that partnering with government and the public sector is critical to advance our missions and build thriving communities. We are excited to share the responses with you in our Nonprofit Voter Guide.