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¡Adelante! A Latinx Community Organizes to Generate Community Wealth

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Daniel Xavier on pexels This is the fourth article in NPQ ’s series titled Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. How does a small Latinx community organize itself to support homegrown businesses? Developing Community Leadership Entrepreneurs play a critical role as community builders.

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Improvisation Over Strategy: What Nonprofit Managers Can Learn from Theater

NonProfit Quarterly

Sara Razavi: Within the CDFI [ community development financial institution ] space, we are a nonprofit loan fund. Like many immigrant communities, the idea that we would make all these sacrifices and then do the arts—it was just assumed that you would never do that. We have a relatively small asset size, just under $20 million.