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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. Ten years later, we have distinct functions of finance, which includes accounting, operations, and information technology. We have a relatively small asset size, just under $20 million.