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How Limited Equity Co-ops Can Sustain Affordable Homeownership

NonProfit Quarterly

Additionally, millions of Americans reside in manufactured housing communities, often called mobile home parks, which do provide affordable housing. This mechanism permits the seller to collect a modest increase in value while ensuring affordability to future buyers. By contrast, in market-rate co-ops, the sale price is uncapped.

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Newsletter: Funding Freeze: What Nonprofits Must Do NOW; How to Approach Audience Research; FCC Investigates PBS, NPR Sponsorship Practices

Selfish Giving

In last week's trends webinar , I discussed the importance of "finding your people"identifying companies that share your values and outlook. These companies are out there, even if your cause is niche or controversial.

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Investing in Creativity as Social Infrastructure

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This reality shouldn't justify exploitation but rather highlight that our current economic systems fail to value forms of labor that are critical for community health. Art is work, however, it isn't entirely the same as other jobs; like caregiving or community work, many artists are compelled to create whether theyre paid or not.

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The Next Generation of Mutualism

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Hemstreet went on to work with local cooperatives, civic groups, manufacturers, nonprofits, and the local Rotary Clubthe other mutualists in her areato launch Morgantons Industrial Commons, a nonprofit economic-development project that created the Carolina Textile District and four additional community-owned organizations.

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7 Ways to Make Your Manufacturing Greener

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

7 Ways to Make Your Manufacturing Greener. Are you looking to make your manufacturing greener? We’ve looked at many green manufacturing companies and put together seven great ways to make your business greener. Change Manufacturing Processes. Today, customers value business transparency and sincerity.

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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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Pathways to Democratic Business: What Two Co-op Networks Can Teach Us

NonProfit Quarterly

Here, I focus on two of the book’s US case studies: Industrial Commons , a textile manufacturing network based in North Carolina; and Obran , a worker co-op holding company based in Baltimore that has gained national prominence. But the manufacturing decline hit many regions outside the Rust Belt, including western North Carolina.