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How to Interrupt the Public Funds to Private Profits Pipeline: A California Story

NonProfit Quarterly

This happens daily when local governments park public funds in banks. Today, our communities face multiple challengesranging from accelerating climate change to growing income inequality, from refugee crises to housing crises, and from basic food access to self-serving financial systems. It turns out, quite a lot.

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How Nonprofits Can Leverage Their Financial Relationships to Advance Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Getty Images on Unsplash Consider a food bank discovering that its operating reserves are in banks that finance industrial agriculture, the very system contributing to food insecurity and displacing small community farms. These scenarios arent hypothetical. What might building strategic relationships look like?

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A Political Roadmap to Social Housing: How Do We Win?

NonProfit Quarterly

Part of this work involves connecting people with lived experiences of homelessness, precarious rentals, and manufactured housing with homeowners fearing gentrification and displacement. The hub will educate and guide tenants to manage or own their own housing and support various resident and community governance structures.

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Restoring Our Capacities: How an Asset Lens Can Serve Movements Today

NonProfit Quarterly

Credit: The ABCD Institute and Pacific Community Solutions State of the Movements is a recurring NPQ column dedicated to tracking the pulse of social movements and the solidarity economy in 2025. Asset-based community development! What do we want? When do we want it? Additional reference information available here.

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Innovating for a Healthy Context

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This focus on living with dignity creates a broad scope for innovations in the dimensions of health and well-being, education and skills, economic activities, and governance. I4HCSecuring Our Investments for a More Sustainable Future Can I4HC unlock significant progress in development or is it merely old wine in new bottles?

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Building Social Housing from the Ground Up: Grassroots Perspectives

NonProfit Quarterly

Most government housing funding is spent on subsidizing mortgages—primarily for the well-to-do. Now, most government housing funding is spent on subsidizing mortgages —primarily for the well-to-do—and residential land is zoned for single-family homes and suburban sprawl.

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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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