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How Resident-Owned Communities Can Create Mass Affordable Homeownership

NonProfit Quarterly

An underappreciated tool for closing this gap—potentially benefitting millions of US households—involves resident-owned manufactured housing communities. A Freddie Mac Multifamily survey conducted in 2019 estimated 45,000 manufactured housing communities operating across the United States. There is another option—a cooperative option.

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How Mobile Home Owners Organize for Land Ownership and Climate Resiliency

NonProfit Quarterly

And though the name might suggest that residents can easily pick up and move, these manufactured homes are actually not very mobile at all. Manufactured housing is “the Ugly Duckling of affordable housing,” according to the Niskanen Center , which describes the mobile home as “a grievously underutilized, deeply affordable housing resource.”

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Why Reparations Can Counter the Legacy of a 50-Year “War on Drugs”

NonProfit Quarterly

The War on Drugs Is Personal The War on Drugs has been a half-century-long, concerted, militarized campaign led by the US government to enforce prohibitions on the importation, manufacture, use, sale, and distribution of substances deemed to be illegal, advancing a punitive rather than a public health approach to drug use.

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Turning Toward EV Frontline Communities

NonProfit Quarterly

In 2014, in an effort to attract investment in the country’s nickel-refining infrastructure—enabling Indonesia to sell more profitable high-grade nickel to manufacturers—the government banned unrefined- nickel exports. After receiving pushback from the European Union and manufacturers, the government softened the ban.

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Why Do Wheelchair Repairs Take So Long?

NonProfit Quarterly

The group is documenting these experiences in the hope of making legislative change, similar to a law passed in Colorado in 2022. As Christina Mills, executive director of the California Foundation for Independent Living Centers and a wheelchair user, told the Los Angeles Times , “My wheelchair is my legs.

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A Modern Nonprofit Podcast: Talking Through WIN-WIN (Warehouse) Scenarios

The Charity CFO

WIN Warehouse began in 1991 by Clinton Laws. manufacturer, distributor, consumer processes.) Travis’ dad, Clinton, recognized the value of Tax Law 170 Charitable, etc. Today, we spoke with his son and our guest, Travis. The mission is simple, to connect nonprofit organizations with corporate excess inventory.

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Reimagining the Role of Business in Protecting Biodiversity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

manufacturing and service organizations), reducing their land footprint entails optimizing the utilization of existing built spaces, infrastructure, and parking areas. Instead of constructing a new office, manufacturing or retail site, companies can first restore existing buildings.