Economic Development
An Abundance of Capacity
Optimizing for outcomes will require building out a range of local public and private institutions.
Tag: United States
Podcast
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Giving That Supports Community-Focused Climate Solutions
How have nonprofits adapted their strategies to help mitigate climate change? How can donors best support climate solutions? Leaders from the One Acre Fund and The Nature Conservancy discuss how climate change is shaping their work and ways philanthropy can step in with catalytic funding. A sponsored podcast developed with the support of DAFgiving360
Education
Reimagining Nursing Education
The predominant model for educating nurses prepares them for hospital settings. By adopting a competency-based education model rooted in community care, nursing programs can better equip their students to address the diverse health-care needs and environments of the 21st century.
Arts & Culture
Investing in Creativity as Social Infrastructure
How artmaking and creative practice in the United States can address community challenges, strengthen local economies, and rebuild human connections—and three less-well-traveled ways to support it.
Cities
Growing Community Together
To succeed, place-based neighborhood transformation must have deep roots in the community that support innovative ways to branch to outside resources. Bonton Farms offers a model of such work.
Collaboration
Fostering Collaboration Through Communications
Taking the lead on social and environmental challenges starts with communications strategies that bring people together.
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Human Rights
Building Tenant Power
An excerpt from Abolish Rent on the struggle to make housing a human right
Economic Development
A New Blueprint for Financing Community Development
The traditional model of community development finance is limited by market conservatism and a focus on scale, rather than local control. We need a new paradigm that prioritizes impact over scale, emphasizes flexible and creative financing strategies, and empowers community voice. | Open access to this article is made possible by The Center for Community Investment, a sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
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Engaging Government in Collective Action
Working with governments to co-create programs and funding strategies can unlock resources far beyond what any single organization can do on its own.