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How to Interrupt the Public Funds to Private Profits Pipeline: A California Story

NonProfit Quarterly

This happens daily when local governments park public funds in banks. Public funds amounting to billions of dollars are turned into private profits for services using your assets. The Peoples Money for the Peoples Needs What difference could a public bank make? It turns out, quite a lot. It turns out, quite a lot.

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How Limited Equity Co-ops Can Sustain Affordable Homeownership

NonProfit Quarterly

One tool that is available to nonprofit housing developers to address this situation is the limited equity cooperative (LEC). Policies such as redlining , as highlighted in Richard Rothsteins The Color of Law , created entrenched housing inequities. First, acquisition costs in high-demand areas can be expensive.

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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. Between 2014 and 2022 alone, assets under management in the CDFI sector expanded more than sevenfold. billion in assets by 2022.

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Bridging for Environmental Justice across Space and Time: Cambodia and the US South

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: “Sister Secrets ” by Renée Laprise Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s fall 2024 issue, “Supporting the Youth Climate Justice Movement.” 4 The Cambodian government’s stated aim is for the dam to provide enough energy to stop power outages and further develop the country.

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Sharing Meals

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In contrast to systems like energy, transportation, or health care, where expertise is more well defined, food expertise tends to be irrefutable, requiring no advanced degree or professional experience. To create change in such a system requires systems leadership. About 20 percent are seated within government.

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In Los Angeles, a Black-Led Community Land Trust Builds for the Future

NonProfit Quarterly

But the initial community group that was formed, known as the Crenshaw Subway Coalition, started with a more modest goal, namely, to make sure new public transit light rail lines—first, the Expo Line and, later on, the Crenshaw Line—were built by and served the community.

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Building Boundaries in Love for Equity and Justice: An AI Manifesto

NonProfit Quarterly

Manifesting Love by **DALL-E 3/ **openai.com/dalle Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? 13 This secrecy prevents public oversight, leaving communities vulnerable to unchecked biases that reinforce systemic inequities.