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Sharing details about a critical topic--how communities can best help resettle refugees. Listen Monday to learn about World Learning's New Vermonters Education Program on School for International Training's campus--a compelling model for how colleges and universities across the U.S. can support #RefugeeResettlement.

On this World Habitat Day, let's reflect on the importance of safe and adequate shelter for everyone. Together, we can make a difference! Want to elevate your community engagement? Tell us how in the comments today!!

In times of hardship, vulnerable communities need more support than ever before. By working alongside hundreds of partner organizations, #PhillySJUnited helps expand their critical direct services and provide support when rapid response is needed. Explore more of our investments in community resiliency: https://bit.ly/3GMJQVJ

Did you know we have been serving rural communities as a certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) for over two decades? As a CDFI, we're committed to providing financial services and support to communities in need, fostering economic growth and opportunity for all. Learn more about our reach and impact with the link. https://lnkd.in/g5D_8dsM #DakotaResources #RuralDevelopment #ThrivingCommunities #RuralLeadership #EconomicEmpowerment

Reminder: when you become a member of the NCDA, you gain a national voice to protect program funding and advocate for housing and community development issues. Learn more about the benefits of membership here: https://lnkd.in/dZs_DmTb

It’s so important to be joining up our conversations about what good community-led disaster resilience practice looks like and what it takes to enable and support it. We’re in a period of national disruption and reckoning, but green shoots of our future systems are already emerging. Let’s keep giving them water and sunshine so their growth is fast and enduring.

Re-Villaging Our Communities — Chapter 9, Part 2. (FREE) "Fractal community empowerment is about releasing the literal power of Love that flows through us into a tangible, gentle community-building network framework that connects the dots between people and organizations -- that can break through everywhere simultaneously... "Our neighbor-to-neighbor movement is living proof that activating a functional “global village” starts by re-empowering local villages – in this case, the neighborhoods and whole communities where we live – connecting at a “human scale.” https://lnkd.in/gU2ZCy87

We need to empower communities for sustainable development. Politics alone cannot provide long-term solutions. That's where Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) come in. They help communities utilize their resources for self-driven initiatives. NGO PROmotion Inc. specializes in building the capacity of CSOs and grassroots organizations. Their experts support self-driven community development in PNG through partnership agreements. Let's work together to create a conducive space for sustainable development and advocate against free handouts. #communitydevelopment #sustainability #civilsociety #empowerment.

It is AMAZING how many landlords (including large affordable housing ones) are using recycled tenant selection plans they picked up like hand-me-down clothes. They are dated and poorly considered and do an awful job of anything except cutting out good potential tenants. Attend this FREE WEBINAR and learn from my tremendous colleagues and their partners at Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority (IHCDA) about how easy it is to do better! Shiri Yadlin, Steven "Kanani" Medeiros, MPP, CSH, the Source for Housing Solutions

Couldn't agree more. So many doors shut that we can open or start to open by simply scrutinizing tenant selection plans which we too often assume are sound and working for people when, too often, they include onerous application processes and requirements beyond what funding, insurance or context requires that in turn end up explicitly or organically screening out good tenants with the greatest need for immediate, stable housing. Lowering barriers and increasing access requires us to continuously scrutinize our own system, agency and project policies, practices and assumptions. If you haven't looked at your TSP(s) lately this looks to be a great session to get started on that. And if you're a CoC lead, consider making this a collaborative review and improvement process with residents, providers, and our PHA and affordable housing partners to clean out the gunk in your local TSPs, now that there's something of a breather next year CoC competition-wise.