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Comprehensive Community Development.... defined. What works? What does not?

“Understanding the social and economic impacts of Native federal contracting requires a close look at how Native entity enterprises approach federal contracting as a community development tool.” This new article by Jacqueline Baldwin-LeClair highlights the unique corporate structures and community development programs of 3 Native Entities, including NHOA member Nakupuna Foundation (and the Nakupuna Companies). #native8a #federalcontracting #govcon #smallbusiness #community #development #engagement #benefits #nho8a #sba U.S. Small Business Administration

Meet Fikile, a seasoned development practitioner with over 20 years of dedicated service to community development and philanthropy. 🌍 As the former Head of Old Mutual Foundation and Social Investment, she's a recognized leader in the field, with a proven track record of fostering strategic partnerships and corporate support for community foundations and civil society organizations. Her work spans regional borders, advocating for inclusive and transformative community development, bringing together state involvement, the private sector, international agencies, and community leadership. 🤝 Let's celebrate Fikile's impactful journey in catalyzing change in South Africa and beyond! 💪🌟 #CommunityDevelopment #PhilanthropyChampion #ImpactfulPartnerships"

Shift The Power Summit at the state of Bogota, Colombia: Bringing sustainable Social Change is more than acknowledging Community Philanthropy that requires moving beyond logos, egos, siloes and halos. There is a need to reimagine the systems and structures of international development and Philanthropy in a way it gives Power to the local development actors.#ShiftThePower!

Its all I preach. Community Voice First. "Funders striving for lasting and equitable impact should learn from the communities they serve by adopting a community-driven change (CDC) approach" https://lnkd.in/eAbSRPKP

Meet Fikile, a seasoned development practitioner with over 20 years of dedicated service to community development and philanthropy. 🌍 As the former Head of Old Mutual Foundation and Social Investment, she's a recognized leader in the field, with a proven track record of fostering strategic partnerships and corporate support for community foundations and civil society organizations. Her work spans regional borders, advocating for inclusive and transformative community development, bringing together state involvement, the private sector, international agencies, and community leadership. 🤝 Let's celebrate Fikile's impactful journey in catalyzing change in South Africa and beyond! 💪🌟 #CommunityDevelopment #PhilanthropyChampion #ImpactfulPartnerships"

Check out this interview with Daisy Moran of the Quad Cities Community Foundation!

✨I'm excited to share the latest article from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis' Center for Indian Country Development. This piece delves into the significant impact of Native federal contracting on communities. Federal contracting has been a vital economic engine, fostering growth, creating jobs, and supporting tribal sovereignty and Native communities. Read more about how these opportunities are transforming lives and building stronger, more resilient communities for three Native entity enterprises. A sincere thank you to the three Native entity enterprises for sharing their stories and insights. Check my profile and Center for Indian Country Development for more policy and data-driven research on federal contracting. #EconomicDevelopment #FederalContracting #IndianCountry #CommunityGrowth #PolicyAnalysis #MinneapolisFed

Actions speak louder than words. Pay attention to which nonprofits are actually in the communities they claim to serve and how they treat them. How can Rondo Community Land Trust represent a community that doesn’t trust them? I just read this article and all I could do is SMH! It’s frustrating to see the Rondo name and history being used by nonprofits that aren’t doing anything for the actual community. Media outlets keep highlighting the I-94 project that destroyed Rondo, but they fail to realize this attention is raising property taxes for those of us who still live here. Since I moved into my house in 2021, my property taxes have gone up $3,000. This is causing a new wave of displacement, especially affecting Rondo elders. In the article, it states that the mayor Melvin W. Carter III created the Inheritance Fund initiative for Rondo descendants who were displaced, yet an alarming number of applicants have been denied. Many have been given false hope of buying back into the community or repairing their homes in Rondo. Nonprofit Quarterly, I’d appreciate if you did a follow-up article to see how many Rondo descendants have applied and how many were successfully awarded this great false opportunity. It’s important that we are honest when publishing news like this on a national platform. The information shared in this article is very deceiving as it doesn’t reflect what is actually happening in the Rondo community. While it’s important to remember Rondo's history, we need to be aware of how current actions are harming today's residents, many of whom are direct descendants of those affected in the 1950s. #Gentrification #TellTheTruth #DontUseOurHistory #RONDO

Check out this article our Deputy Director E. Coco authored for the Nonprofit Quarterly about the reparative economic development framework guiding our work! “Community economic development approaches have lost their way. Many solutions to social and economic challenges focus on how to expand access to a system from which communities have been intentionally and systematically excluded. These “solutions” may pay lip service to root causes but fail to acknowledge that for certain communities to amass wealth in a capitalist framework requires the harm and exploitation of others along class, race, and gender lines. As practitioners, to remedy this, it is our job to find our way back, or better yet, forge a new, more powerful path that centers “repair.” Unless we recognize that racialized capitalism’s primary concern is maximizing profits at all costs, we aren’t doing much to sustain equity with, by, and for our people and planet. A growing number of practitioners and organizations, backed by a robust field of study and ancestral practice, instead believe that economic systems can produce everything our communities need and desire without destroying the cultural, social, and economic wellbeing of others.” #landjustice #economicjustice #communitylandtrust