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What Is a Community Development Corporation?

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: coffeekai on istock.com Community is one of humanity’s great achievements. Yet community development corporations , a $28 billion sector of over 6,200 nonprofits that support local community economic development, are largely invisible in the national conversation. That was part of the problem.

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Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

CNN recently reported that “California has spent billions to fight homelessness. Massive investments in climate solutions such as carbon markets, CO2 sequestration, and energy alternatives had no material effect on slowing global warming. Real progress seems elusive. The problem has gotten worse.”

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Connecting Faith Institutions to Capital

NonProfit Quarterly

He indicated that the church’s history fuels much of its mission work, including supporting a homelessness ministry and operating a voting precinct at the church to make sure that local West Jackson residents are not disenfranchised. “Faith institutions. Stephanie Swepson-Twitty of Eagle Market Streets Development Corp.

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Nonprofit Marketing Jobs: March 23, 2012

Getting Attention

Please post your nonprofit marketing position here — FT or PT staff, consulting or internship opportunities. 1) Business Development Manager and. Marketing Campaigns Manager. 2) Communications Associate. 3) Communications Associate and Director of Development and Communications.

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Building Tenant Power for the Long Haul: A Story from Long Beach, California

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Vyacheslav Dumchev on istock This is the second article in NPQ ’s series titled Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. Community land trusts, or CLTs, take land out of the speculative market on a 99-year ground lease. Stewardship of the land resides with the CLT.

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Housing and Health: Creating Solutions With Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Decades of discriminatory housing, transportation, and land-use policy combined with economic disinvestment have resulted in communities that are residentially segregated by income, race, ethnicity, language, and immigration status. Creating a Learning Community.

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Rambling or Relevant?

Getting Attention

House homeless individuals, veterans and others with special needs. Are a community development org in Trenton, and foster self-reliant families in sustainable communities. Are in lower Fairfield county, CT, and provide emergency assistance to help keep people in their homes. Keep posted! Subscribe today.