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What’s Next for Community Development Finance?

NonProfit Quarterly

Posters at the conference highlighted that the first OFN conference in 1985 attracted 21 community development loan funds with a combined $27 million in assets under management. By contrast, according to the US SIF (Sustainable Investment Forum), the CDFI industry (including community development banks and credit unions) had $457.9

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How to Preserve Existing Affordable Housing: The Value of Human Scale

NonProfit Quarterly

In Washington, DC, the city’s Department of Housing and Community Development reports that 18,300 units of affordable housing of this kind became unaffordable between 2006 and 2017. Even though Washington, DC, has lost many affordable housing units, its community ownership legislation has helped stem the tide.

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The Next Generation of Mutualism

Stanford Social Innovation Review

billion; and co-ops and mutuals around Quebec, Canada, contribute $50 billion to Canadas gross domestic product. The bottom line is something of economic value must be exchanged between peers, and this economic value must be recycled back to the community to support their mission and goals.

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Facebook Groups for Business in a Nutshell

Pam Moore

Facebook Groups provide a unique opportunity for brands of all sizes to build community, increase brand awareness, generate leads and even increase sales of products or services. Or maybe you have a Facebook business Group but it's not delivering any value for your business. People don't just buy things, they join things.

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A Political Roadmap to Social Housing: How Do We Win?

NonProfit Quarterly

Politicians are influenced by money as much as or, frankly, often much more than votes, and public policy is the product of calculating trade-offs between the two. Of course, securing a significant bloc of potential votes is only part of the battle. Nonprofit housing groups, in short, can be movement allies, not opponents.

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How to Close the Racial Homeownership Gap

NonProfit Quarterly

We know that the racial homeownership gap is, in large measure, the product of historic redlining , as well as past and ongoing discrimination. Other structural barriers lower the home’s value from the start—limiting opportunities to grow generational wealth. There are several points throughout where systemic inequities arise.

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Housing Innovation in Rural America

NonProfit Quarterly

Coproduced by Partners for Rural Transformation , a coalition of six regional community development financial institutions, and NPQ , authors highlight efforts to address multi-generational poverty in Appalachia, the rural West, Indian Country, South Texas, and the Mississippi Delta. A single modular unit or “box” is 288 square feet.

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