Stanford Social Innovation Review
MAY 17, 2023
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.
NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 10, 2024
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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NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 1, 2023
million in renovations to support a community-developed plan to reopen this legacy site as a collectively owned community asset. BAMBD CDC is an arts-based organization invested in community development writ large. These spaces are now closed, and gentrification is encroaching upon the buildings that housed them.
NonProfit Quarterly
DECEMBER 21, 2022
At a recent professional dinner, I struck up a fascinating conversation with a woman who has spent her legal career working in civil rights, housing, and community development. Such phenomena are root causes of many challenges facing urban communities of color today. Image Credit: Mustapha Saadouni on unsplash.com.
NonProfit Quarterly
JULY 26, 2023
A young adult explained how Yale’s expansion into the neighborhood was a direct agent of violence, both raising property values and pushing youth into dangerous enemy gang territory. The greater value of campus land is in its nonprofit tax- exempt status, which serves as a financial shelter for profitable research and private investors.
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