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How UPROSE Is Creating Clean Energy in Brooklyn

NonProfit Quarterly

The solar developer builds clean-energy projects that help communities acquire long-term wealth and energy assets through impact investing, technical support, and project financing. This type of community-owned solar will be the first of its kind in Brooklyn.” How will Sunset Park Solar work? says Yeampierre.

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??How Community-Based Public Space Can Build Civic Trust: Lessons from Akron

NonProfit Quarterly

The result of their work is more places for people to gather and experience nature, increased social cohesion, restored civic trust, and perhaps most importantly, community development that benefits all residents. In Akron, more than 20 public, nonprofit, and community groups came together to form the Civic Commons team.

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Getting to Know Our Consultants: Olliette Murry-Drobot

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

I stepped down as the executive director for the Family Safety Center after battling some health issues. I served as the Program Director for community development and microenterprise development at MIFA. Interests are intersectionality, colorism, and leadership. It would impact the leadership.

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Local Solutions to Federal Problems: Moving Climate Dollars to Communities

NonProfit Quarterly

Connie Binkowitz, director of development and external policy at CTC, described how, in 2020, the organization received a grant from the Memphis Division of Housing and Community Development (DHCD). This grant came out of a program supported by federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) dollars.

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What Does Tribal Land Stewardship Look Like?

NonProfit Quarterly

The resources involved were modest ($240,000 total) but the ambition was large—namely, to assist Native nations to “regain control of their land and natural resources, revitalize traditional stewardship practices, and build sustainable stewardship initiatives that contribute to tribal economic and community development opportunities.”

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How do water shutoffs impact low-income communities?

NonProfit Quarterly

The report concludes with guiding principles on how utilities can develop better informed affordability policies and prevent shutoffs. The pilot helped utilities embrace the critical role they play in ensuring their customers’ health and explore ways to relieve water debt stress.

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[VIDEO] Building a Better Grants Strategy Post-COVID

Bloomerang

And I always like to point this out because I think mental health is extremely important, especially as the fact that you’re dealing with populations who might be they’re doing one of the most vulnerable parts of their lives, or maybe there’s a cause that is really, really necessary to focus on and requires all your mental energy.