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Medical Ship Docks in Sierra Leone for Free Surgeries and Training

NonProfit Quarterly

Mercy Ships is not the only medical NGO that offers medical care by boat, but it is one the largest. Floating Doctors similarly offers mobile healthcare, education, and community development to underserved communities worldwide. Photo courtesy of Jody Ray. Freetown, Sierra Leone. Photo courtesy of Jody Ray.

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Innovating for a Healthy Context

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Yet even today, almost 50 years later, our global approach to health operates primarily through a medical model that emphasizes treating diseases rather than fostering comprehensive health and well-being. Women who suffer the most from inadequate health care travel from distant communities to visit the Project Mercy clinic.

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Can Compassionate Lending Bridge the Racial Wealth Divide?

NonProfit Quarterly

Originating in Eastern Europe centuries ago, these programs helped Jewish communities overcome financial hardship without the burden of interest, which is prohibited by Orthodox Jewish law within Jewish communities. Through redlining , subprime mortgages, and predatory lending, US banks have helped perpetuate the racial wealth divide.

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Preserving Cambodia Town: How A Refugee Community Has Organized Itself

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Ian Nicole Reambonanza on Unsplash This is the fourth article in NPQ ’s series titled Building Power, Fighting Displacement: Stories from Asian Pacific America, coproduced with the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development ( National CAPACD ). How does a refugee community organize itself?

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Organizing a Community Around Food Sovereignty

NonProfit Quarterly

In the series, urban and rural grassroots leaders from across the United States share how their communities are developing and implementing strategies—grounded in local places, cultures, and histories—to shift power and achieve systemic change.

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Black Organizers in Boston’s Roxbury Neighborhood Provide a Path Forward

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Drew Katz Black Bostonian communities citywide have more than just something to say for themselves: their economies are building institutions that prioritize asset-based community development and are creating the foundations for a local solidarity economy.

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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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