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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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Sector Adopting AI, Building Reserves, and Expanding, Survey Shows

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Andrea Piacquadio on Pexels Eighty-two percent of nonprofits say they’re using artificial intelligence (AI), with financial tasks being the most commonly reported use. The next most common use of AI, cited by 36 percent of nonprofits, was for program optimization and impact assessment.

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Laying the Groundwork for Government-Led Poverty Reduction

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Dianne Calvi & Taddeo Muriuki In September 2024, an article in The Economist posed a provocative question: Can evidence-based development programs, like those championed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Esther Duflo, scale effectively to combat the growing challenges of extreme poverty? The stakes have never been higher.

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Sharing Meals

Stanford Social Innovation Review

One path leads to this arable land being sold to a developer and turned into a small strip mall. 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.

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Three Whys, Three Times (Blog)

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Arts & Culture Cities Civic Engagement Economic Development Education Energy Environment Food Health Human Rights Security Social Services Water & Sanitation Sectors Government, Nonprofit, Business, etc. Business Foundations Government Nonprofits & NGOs Social Enterprise Solutions Advocacy, Funding, Leadership, etc.

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What’s Next for CDFIs? The Challenge and Opportunity of Place

NonProfit Quarterly

In these turbulent times, many leaders of the nations growing network of community development financial institutions (CDFIs)which now collectively manage $468 billion in assets, a 615 percent increase over the past decadehave high hopes. Image Credit: Brian Koellish on iStock Nearly a third of US communities are CDFI deserts.

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Opinions Differ On If Donors Will Show Up On GivingTuesday

The NonProfit Times

We do everything we can to promote GivingTuesday,” Salvation Army National Community Relations And Development Secretary Dale Bannon told The NonProfit Times. “It Flat is the watchword at GlobalGiving, a nonprofit that connects funders with grassroots projects around the world. But I wouldn’t be surprise if it is flatter.”