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What you missed at that 2023 IMAGINE: Nonprofit conference

AWS Public Sector Blog

On Tuesday, March 14, the IMAGINE: Nonprofit conference brought together hundreds of nonprofit leaders, technologists, and innovators to learn and share how Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud technology can drive a positive impact for people and the planet. These were some of the top moments from IMAGINE: Nonprofit.

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Episode 64: Bridging the Racial Wealth Divide with NCRC’s Community Development Fund

CRA Today

Marisa Calderon is the executive director at NCRC Community Development Fund (NCRC CDF), a nonprofit, U.S. Treasury-certified community development financial institution (CDFI) that provides loan capital to expand access to affordable homeownership, which helps Black-, Brown- and woman- owned businesses thrive.

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Does a Nonprofit “First Look” Program Promote Neighborhood Stabilization? Examining Outcomes for REO Sales in Florida

Center for Community Progress

In this chapter, Andrew Jakabovics and David Sanchez discuss how a nonprofit “first look” program impacted outcomes for real estate owned (REO) properties. The platform prioritizes both homeownership outcomes, based on a view that an owner-occupant disposition best stabilizes a neighborhood, and sale to local nonprofit community partners.

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BTMFBA: maintaining arts spaces in the face of rising real estate values | Seattle, New York City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

17-17 Troutman Street, Queens, former textile factory, 90 studios 64 Fulton Street, Financial District, Manhattan, mix of religious and nonprofit organizations and 20 studios Equinox Studios, Seattle. Mycella Collective. The buildings might be run down, but rents are cheap, and more artists follow.

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New form of BTMFBA in San Francisco

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

"Buy the Mother F Building Already" is a series of entries about best practice and worst practice in buying, holding, and developing properties for arts and culture related uses. My lament was the lack of systematic, community-wide initiatives to buy, hold, develop and preserve properties for arts and culture related uses.

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Frugal architecture in action: The Urban Institute innovates with R and Serverless on AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Cost, resilience, and performance are non-functional requirements that are often at tension with each other.” — Werner Vogels, The Frugal Architect, Law III Nonprofit organizations are typically frugal and responsible. To expand their reach, they often collaborate with academia and other nonprofits, and they engage early-career talent.

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I wonder if Mayor Fenty hadn't dissolved the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative in 2007, merging it into another city agency, if development would have happened faster?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Washington Post reports on a press conference in Anacostia, the most economically lagging area in DC, where the Mayor discussed improvements in the area, in association with a new building for the Department of Housing and Community Development, which was already there, in a not so old building (" After decades of disinvestment, D.C.’s