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How Guarantees Can Advance Community Development and Racial Equity

NonProfit Quarterly

At the same time, many community development nonprofits face challenges in securing the capital needed to carry out their core missions and, importantly, to test new ideas and strategies. Adding to this complexity, many guarantors lack systems, policies, and procedures to manage guarantees.

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Improvisation Over Strategy: What Nonprofit Managers Can Learn from Theater

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Ahmad Odeh on Unsplash In this interview, the CEO of a California-based CDFI offers her observations on what her work as a theater director has taught her about nonprofit management. Sara Razavi: Within the CDFI [ community development financial institution ] space, we are a nonprofit loan fund.

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How To Get The Most Out of Your Case Management Software

GiveGab

They do the admirable and time-intensive work that makes our communities a better place to live, and technology plays an undeniable role in that. Specialized nonprofit case management software enables these organizations to automate processes and optimize the services that their clients depend on. Rightfully so!

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From Scarcity to Inspiration: Rethinking the Value of Nonprofit Facilities

NonProfit Quarterly

For years, I have directed IFF , a community development financial institution that specializes in nonprofit facilities lending. A Hierarchy of Nonprofit Facilities’ Needs After 30 years in community development, I have come to think of nonprofit facilities as existing on a continuum of need. It is too hot or cold.

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Building Community Capacity in Rural East Texas: The Long Lift

NonProfit Quarterly

Temple ) and a community development financial institution ( Communities Unlimited ) are teaming to develop bottom-up structural solutions to building rural capacity. When we talk about economic development in East Texas, we often like to start with a the figure below, which comes from a T.L.L.

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How to Advance a Regenerative Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

In 2020, Joycelyn Chui was working with Chinese-speaking restaurant owners to help them navigate Seattle’s waste management system and found it was adding strain to already struggling businesses. At the same time, one of us, Lizzy Baskerville, managed a community garden for elder Asian neighbors.

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From Food Pantry to Urban Farming: Food Justice Lessons from Camden

NonProfit Quarterly

The facility is designed to increase participation of underrepresented students in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), Computer Science (CS), and Agricultural Science (AS). Instead, most DEI efforts are led by human resource professionals with limited understanding of communities like Camden.

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