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Credit Unions, Race, and Equity: A Conversation with Michael McCray and Cliff Rosenthal

NonProfit Quarterly

In 1979, I discovered financial cooperatives—namely, credit unions—and I joined the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions in 1980. Michael McCray: I was born into community development finance. So, there was kind of a stigma to credit unions serving low-income communities. Why is this?

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Supporting nonprofit and mission-driven affordable housing providers 

Candid

With a shortage of seven million affordable homes for the lowest-income families , cratering supply is leading to escalating housing costs, dampening economic prospects for people in urban, rural, Tribal, and suburban communities in every state and territory. In February 2025, our organization received from the U.S.

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2024 Nonprofit Voter Guide

MNA Association

We know that decisions made in Helena and in Washington, DC have an enormous impact on our work as nonprofits. We also know that partnering with government and the public sector is critical to advance our missions and build thriving communities. We are excited to share the responses with you in our Nonprofit Voter Guide.

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Local Solutions to Federal Problems: Moving Climate Dollars to Communities

NonProfit Quarterly

Some leading emerging strategies that we found from across the nation include the following: Leveraging philanthropy to ensure community control of public dollars In Memphis, TN, the Center for Transforming Communities (CTC) cultivates “neighborhood democracies” through place-based organizing.

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Building Infrastructure to Support Equity: A Conversation with Dr. Akilah Watkins

NonProfit Quarterly

Akilah Watkins, who previously led the Center for Community Progress and has been a leader in the CEO Circle, a group of community development leaders of color, became president and CEO of Independent Sector in January 2023. The nonprofit sector is hugely important both economically and socially to this country.

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National Gathering Looks to Address Root Causes of Inequality

NonProfit Quarterly

The conference brings together hundreds of community activists, government officials, and bank community development officers. To assess risk, the newly formed Federal Housing Administration hired the University of Michigan’s Ernest Fisher and Prudential’s Frederick Babcock.

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The Imaginal Cells of the Solidarity Economy: Community Ownership

NonProfit Quarterly

All Moderated by Steve Dubb of the Nonprofit Quarterly. Below you’ll find the graphic recording, audio, video, and transcript from “The Imaginal Cells of the Solidarity Economy: Community Ownership” presented by the U.S. Steve Dubb: [00:02:31] Welcome to Imagining Cells of the Solidarity Economy: Community Ownership.