Land Trusts Offer an Innovative Way to Help the Middle Class Afford a Home
The nonprofits offer homes at low rates, but in exchange buyers have to give up some of the equity they would typically build up with a standard mortgage. That allows the trusts to offer homes to more people.
By Kay Dervishi
Contributor
To Stem the Housing Crisis, Religious Congregations Are Building Homes
Churches and other religious organizations are developing vacant or underutilized land in their own backyards to meet the need for affordable housing. Nonprofits are helping them navigate the financial and political challenges.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
Foundations Buoy a New Movement of Renters’ Activism
Instead of focusing mainly on ways to help low- and middle-class people buy affordable housing, grant makers are paying for community organizing and advocacy designed to protect renters. Plus: See the rest of our <a href="https://staging.philanthropy.com/package/affordable-housing-a-concern-for-every-cause">special report</a> on affordable housing.
By Sara Herschander
Contributor
Mission-Driven Lending Organizations Play a Key Role in Spreading Low-Cost Housing
Investments that foundations and businesses make are put into revolving funds that provide loans, housing down payments, and more. Plus: <a href="https://staging.philanthropy.com/package/affordable-housing-a-concern-for-every-cause">Read more</a> about what grant makers are doing to boost the availability of affordable housing while addressing health and education.
By Kay Dervishi
Contributor
Nonprofit Stays for the Long Haul After Disasters
A humanitarian group called IsraAID remains in disaster areas long after the news cameras leave, working with community leaders and local organizations to help people recover and build resilience.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor, Nonprofit Intelligence
Phil and Penny Knight Pledge $400 Million to Rebuild Historic Black Neighborhood
Plus, hedge-fund manager Kenneth Griffin gave big gifts to a community college and a charter school, and Purdue University received two major donations from alumni.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
How Nonprofits Are Protecting Large Swaths of Land
As the human population grows, fewer and fewer places are available to be set aside for conservation, but protecting large areas can restore critical ecological processes like migration and sustain populations of endangered wildlife like bison that need room to roam.
By David Jachowski
Contributor
AmeriCorps Names Former Biden Campaign Staffer to Serve as Chief Program Officer
Plus, the Gulf Coast Community Foundation has chosen a new CEO, and the World Resources Institute India has selected its next leader.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Latinos Aren’t Appointed to Nonprofit Boards in Big Cities in Big Numbers
A study of cities with large numbers of Latinos found a mismatch between the number of Hispanic residents and charity board members.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Climate Funders Justice Pledge Brings In More Than $120 Million
The Donors of Color Network created the pledge, which calls on signatories to give 30 percent of their climate funding to organizations led by people of color.
By Jim Rendon
Executive Editor