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Embracing Innovation
NeighborWorks America, a 40-year-old congressionally chartered nonprofit, redefined its relationship with its grantees to build a learning lab for innovation.
Tag: Housing
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Realizing the Dream of Homeownership
NeighborWorks’ courses on homeownership and support services empowered these people to buy their own homes and transform their lives.
Social Services
Embracing an Equity Lens in the Organization and Community
How a social service organization defined equity and made it a core of its programs for low-income families in the Northern Kentucky/Greater Cincinnati, Ohio region.
Health
Housing for Health
Nine communities in the United States are finding ways to invest in housing to contain health care costs.
Impact Investing
Capital Aggregation: A Market-Making Idea for Impact
We need to explore new services to match impact investor interest with market demand.
Impact Investing
Impact Investing in Victorian England? The Case of Model Dwellings Companies
What we can learn today from an early approach to improving social conditions through investment.
Economic Development
Choosing Nurture, Not Nature, to Improve Financial Decision-Making in America
Behavioral insights can inform low-cost, low-touch strategies for re-designing financial services that promote consumer well-being.
Review
Economic Development
Is Housing a Human Right?
Has capitalism failed to provide adequate housing, and if so, where do we go from here?
Foundations
Leveraging All Assets for Social Good
To bring more resources to bear on the challenges facing children and families, funders can step outside their traditional grantmaking role to invest in innovative and mission-focused efforts.
Impact Investing
Constancy and Thoughtful Realignment: The Next Era of Social Investing
The changing US political playground requires that foundations both focus on what works and actively explore what might work in uncertain times ahead.