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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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Black Organizers in Boston’s Roxbury Neighborhood Provide a Path Forward

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Drew Katz Black Bostonian communities citywide have more than just something to say for themselves: their economies are building institutions that prioritize asset-based community development and are creating the foundations for a local solidarity economy.

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Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NGOs scaled solutions to educational problems in India for decades without sufficient reading or math improvement. An Inspiration In the eyes of medical experts , the future of medicine is to prioritize keeping people healthy for longer periods. Medicine 3.0: Medicine 2.0 is oriented towards the past: moving away from illness.

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Changing the Health System: A Community-Led Approach Rises in Rhode Island

NonProfit Quarterly

In the series, urban and rural grassroots leaders from across the United States share how their communities are developing and implementing strategies—grounded in local places, cultures, and histories—to shift power and achieve systemic change. Connecticut and Delaware have also created similar community-rooted collaboratives.

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Organizing a Community Around Food Sovereignty

NonProfit Quarterly

In the series, urban and rural grassroots leaders from across the United States share how their communities are developing and implementing strategies—grounded in local places, cultures, and histories—to shift power and achieve systemic change.

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Beyond Pledges: Building More Inclusive Capital Ecosystems

NonProfit Quarterly

These inequities have had multigenerational impacts on the health, economic opportunity, education, and culture of millions of people. Financial institutions deepen economic inclusion when they infuse their work with cultural competency that builds trust among stakeholders. Those compounded impacts are starkly apparent.

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Cooperation Jackson at 10: Lessons for Building a Solidarity Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

KA: I had a good education in that movement about cooperatives. How do we do development? SD: You have spoken before about your experience working in public education prior to moving to Mississippi. From New Orleans, I learned how to go about constructing a community land trust.