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Making Food Systems Work for People of Color: Six Action Steps

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Oladimeji Odunsi on unsplash.com How do you support development across the food system in a way that builds community ownership and power for Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities? This is a question that a group of food system activists of color have come together to address.

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How to Advance a Regenerative Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

In the nonprofit sector, it requires transcending the standard hierarchical funder-nonprofit dynamics and replacing them with norms of power sharing and reciprocity. Unlike many funding opportunities, qualifying projects did not need to have nonprofit tax status or be fiscally sponsored by a nonprofit.

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How Resident-Owned Communities Can Create Mass Affordable Homeownership

NonProfit Quarterly

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. But this increases the cost of servicing the resultant larger loans. ROC USA helped the co-op secure $5.25

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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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