It’s no secret: 2025 was a year of change and unpredictability for nonprofits focused on housing and community development. Shifting federal priorities, staff reductions throughout the federal government, and new…
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Click here for more.One major American city has significantly reduced chronic homelessness over the last year, even as federal policy changes make the homeless service landscape less predictable. Atlanta reduced its chronic homeless…
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After a decade of technical reforms meant to modernize foreign aid, a new report from the European Network on Debt and Development, or Eurodad, warns that official development assistance is drifting…
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Click here for more.When Rashida Crutchfield began her doctoral degree at Cal State Long Beach in 2009, she knew she wanted to study the college experience for homeless students. There was one problem.…
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Click here for more.In Northeast Kansas City, Missouri, one working-class neighborhood is using a multi-pronged approach to take control of its housing supply. Since 2018, the Lykins Neighborhood Association has been taking on…
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Click here for more.When life gives you lemons, make layers instead. You may not have thought much about it, but that next visit to the salon comes with a hidden cost: waste. Each…
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By investing in supporting the thriving of young children and their families, funders can help lay the foundation for those children to thrive for the rest of their lives—with benefits…
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Click here for more.Brent and Michelle Arp say that farming is in their blood. Brent’s 85-year-old father still farms on the more than 120-year-old farm where both he and Brent grew up. Michelle…
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Click here for more.As the nation marks Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the real question is not how loudly we celebrate — but whether we are willing to live by the values Dr.…
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Detroit was the first place Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered an early version of what would become his “I Have a Dream” speech. He recited it on June 23, 1963,…