Community Development Food Manufacturing 
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
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. Over the years, I’ve seen corporate food giants pack up and leave our neighborhoods.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
APRIL 3, 2025
Hemstreet went on to work with local cooperatives, civic groups, manufacturers, nonprofits, and the local Rotary Clubthe other mutualists in her areato launch Morgantons Industrial Commons, a nonprofit economic-development project that created the Carolina Textile District and four additional community-owned organizations.
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NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
Image credit: “ Nature, food, landscape, travel ” on istock.com Creating and preserving quality affordable housing is notoriously difficult, with the number of available units declining each year as landlords raise rents ever higher. Roughly 22 million Americans live in manufactured homes. There is another option—a cooperative option.
NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 10, 2024
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. In his eyes, “We can’t pilot this stuff anymore.
NonProfit Quarterly
JUNE 7, 2023
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. A single modular unit or “box” is 288 square feet.
NonProfit Quarterly
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
Nelson Colón of the Puerto Rico Community Foundation, and Clara Miller, president emerita of the Heron Foundation—come from philanthropy. The co-op movement in Puerto Rico comprises a range of credit unions, youth co-ops, and co-ops in many other sectors, including farming, trade, manufacturing, services, transportation, and housing.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
OCTOBER 30, 2024
By Jerry Kenney , Ines Polonius & Gustavo Lasala How do we build thriving rural communities in the 21st century? Enter community development financial institutions (CDFIs). Starting from a deficit framework and searching for externally derived, ill-suited, copycat solutions is a strategic dead end for rural regions.
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