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This opinion piece from MarketWatch highlights workforce housing, where impact investors can leverage on to create affordable housing.
Meredith Jones, an alternative-investment consultant and author, writes that affordable housing is an issue that is ripe for impact investing strategies. She adds that with impact investing, an investor can generate an attractive return on investment while simultaneously effecting positive change in the world.
In the case of affordable and workforce housing, investors seeking to create a positive impact by increasing the number of reasonably priced rental units can look to REITs (real estate investment trusts).
Jones listed down some REITS that offer affordable and workforce housing options. They include: NexPoint Residential Trust, Reven Housing REIT, and Mid-America Apartment Communities. Read the Entire Article
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Foundation: Nebraska Community Foundation
K.C. Belitz, chief operating officer of the Nebraska Community Foundation (NCF), provides an example of how to use philanthropy to do community-building and a call to action. Belitz writes that...more
The Home Sharing Program, which recently launched in all five New York City boroughs, pairs homeless youth with senior citizens who have extra rooms in their apartments. According to Lorraine...more
Activate World's podcast spotlights Dr. Jerry Davis, Associate Dean for Business + Impact, Michigan Ross School of Business. Davis' research is concerned with the effects of finance on society,...more
Richard C. Harwood, author of "Stepping Forward: a Positive Practical Path to Transform Our Communities and Our Lives," addresses how people across the Untied States are pulling back from their...more
In a conversation with Tara Westover, author of the best-selling 2018 memoir, Educated, Jeffrey Goldberg dives into the issues surrounding cultural separation and mutual misunderstanding in...more
Foundation: Teagle Foundation
Steve Dubb, senior editor for NonProfit Quarterly (NPQ), tackles institutions that have anchor missions. He writes that today's anchor institutions are already widely accepted and provides examples,...more
This LISC research report provides evidence about the impact of investments, and the work of both community organizations and "anchor institutions." The report lists urban places and diverse...more
Suzanne Anarde, outgoing vice president and director of Rural LISC, writes in an essay for Shelterforce stating to look at the impact of investing in rural community development on its own...more
Foundation: San Francisco Foundation
Facebook commits $150 Million to Bay's Future Fund. LISC will help put these dollars to work promoting affordable housing development in the San Francisco Bay Area. The commitment from Facebook...more
Nonprofit Quarterly launches the second season of its Remaking the Economy webinar series. Each webinar will focus on a specific region or community. This webinar features the 501c3 nonprofit,...more
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Social Enterprise Trains Migrants and Refugees with Fashion-Industry Skills
Sydney TAFE has teamed with a new clothing and retail social enterprise, The Social Outfit charity, to launch a dynamic collaboration that would enable students to gain real fashion industry skills and take on their own creativity and rich cultural heritage to produce garments for The Social Outfit’s store and adjoining workshop in Newtown.
