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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 Nonprofits Can Leverage Their Financial Relationships to Advance Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

Tools such as Bank.Green or the Global Alliance for Banking on Values can help mission-driven organizations identify values-aligned banks. Tools like As You Sows Invest Your Values platform can assist you in evaluating the ESG (environmental, social, and governance) performance of your organizations investments.

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Supporting Native communities is about listening and relationships

Candid

It’s the relationship that matters most to Native communities. Native communities view prosperity differently. Spending time to understand Native communities’ worldviews has helped us honor their expertise, values, and lived experience. Seen through a Western lens, Native communities might appear impoverished.

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Scott Resumes Giving Away Millions In Large Chunks

The NonProfit Times

Depending on the various sale dates, financial sources estimated the value to be anywhere from $8 billion to $11.5 This is Scott’s second grant to LISC, one of the nation’s largest community development organizations. The gifts come a few weeks after a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that showed she sold 61.66

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How Limited Equity Co-ops Can Sustain Affordable Homeownership

NonProfit Quarterly

This mechanism permits the seller to collect a modest increase in value while ensuring affordability to future buyers. They also ensure long-term affordability by limiting the resale value of shares, preventing speculative increases in housing costs. By contrast, in market-rate co-ops, the sale price is uncapped.

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How to Help People of Color Become Homeowners: Data from Philadelphia

NonProfit Quarterly

Understanding Philadelphias Distressed Housing Markets Reinvestment Funds Market Value Analysis tool creates a typology of housing markets based on statistical analysis of key metrics such as price, vacancy, tenure, and investment. Investors and Changing Market Values Real estate investors look for neighborhoods where they can make a profit.

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Giving circles can strengthen collective action. Here’s how. 

Candid

Giving circles uplift members’ voices for the community Giving circles have traditionally focused on bringing people together to pool resources to address community needs. Their strength lies in uniting diverse groups around shared values, which fosters deeper dialogue and collective action.