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Local Solutions to Federal Problems: Moving Climate Dollars to Communities

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: AndreyPopov on istock.com How can frontline communities access public funding for climate solutions? The same elements [needed for] BIPOC communities to benefit from public funding are also the most promising approaches to address…climate change. The answers are, well, complex.

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Community Development Must Center Power Building: A San Francisco Story

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Matt Briney on unsplash.com This is the second 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 ).

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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. It’s an odd mix, but one that NCRC has managed for the past 33 years. This year’s event was easily the group’s largest since before the COVID-19 pandemic. billion, which works out to only 4.9

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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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Industry Founders Challenge CDFIs to Embrace a More Expansive Vision

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Drew Beamer on Unsplash For community development financial institutions (CDFIs), these are extraordinary times. One was the rise of nonprofits within the CDFI sector. An overwhelming majority of CDFIs today, however, are nonprofits. It was a real estate development company. It was a nonprofit.

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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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Lessons from Lynn: Leveraging Savings Circles, the “Cuchubal Initiative”

NonProfit Quarterly

How can nonprofits help immigrants build community wealth? Nonprofit and public sector programs to promote savings are common. One of the more common forms is the matched savings account, often referred to as the individual development account, or IDA. Image Credit: Armand Khoury on unsplash.com.

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