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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. The food initiative’s resources have helped fund these efforts.

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A Primer for Incubating Child Care Businesses

NonProfit Quarterly

the community development financial institution where I work, lends to families and businesses throughout the state of Maine. A childcare business incubator needs to combine small business start-up education with specific childcare business management and coaching. Coastal Enterprises, Inc.,

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National Gathering Looks to Address Root Causes of Inequality

NonProfit Quarterly

“Institutional racism means that many institutions were implicated in the creation of the system that we have today—governmental, academic, corporate, and medical institutions alike.” The conference brings together hundreds of community activists, government officials, and bank community development officers.

Finance 103
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Setting a Co-op Table for Food Justice in Louisville

NonProfit Quarterly

After seven years of kitchen-table and Zoom organizing, a multi-stakeholder, cooperative, community-owned grocery store is taking shape in Louisville, KY. In October, the metro council of Louisville’s combined city-county government voted to allocate $3.5 million to help make a co-op grocery a reality. We secured $3.5

Food 102
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Giving Trends in Mexico: Millennials and Gen Z Drive Rise in Online Giving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Our government is discussing providing free wifi throughout in Mexico City which is a very good sign for crowdfunding and even better for NGOs funding. The top three causes are medical expenses (25%), start-up costs for a social enterprise (25%), and disaster relief (23%). Finally, digitalization is growing fast in Mexico.

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Impact Investing Can’t Deliver by Chasing Market Returns

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Most practitioners working in community development have accepted this as the reality of impact investing: The harder you drive for social impact in disadvantaged communities, the farther away you get from unbuffered full market return.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

I could see those patients in my office, give them some medication, and see them again at their follow-up appointment a month later, their situation basically unchanged—or I could do something different. One HEZ lead is a community health center with multiple sites. So, we challenged ourselves to do something different.

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