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Mission-Driven or Profit-Driven? Enterprise’s Hidden Role in Mobile Home Park Purchases

Despite Enterprise Community Partners’ majority voting stake in Bellwether Enterprise, the nonprofit lender long insisted it couldn’t address its subsidiary commercial mortgage lender’s questionable lending for mobile home park purchases.

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Students Push Universities to Invest Locally

In response to my earlier post about anchor institutions and community development, Andrew Frishkoff, executive director of LISC Philadelphia, commented “Too often we have seen beneficent anchor institutions acting paternalistically on […]

Part II: What If Someone Gave You $5M, Then Asked for It Back?

When was the last time you sat down with your financial manager and the actually considered the various tranches of capital you would need?

Part I: What If Someone Gave You $5M, Then Asked for It Back?

There are wealthy people and institutions out there in the world right now who are willing to give your nonprofit a lot of money. As a matter of fact, that number appears to be growing.

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Aligning Grants with Impact Investments

Impact investing—the deployment of capital with the intent of not only generating financial return, but also producing measurable social and environmental impacts—is not new. Living Cities has engaged in impact […]