Nonprofits--Yes You Can Advocate. And Now's the Time

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Also: Affordable Housing and . . . a Museum? ● Fair Housing Is NOT War on the Suburbs ● Not Your Average Community Garden Tuesday, February 7, 2017 Shelterforce in Print! Subscribe Now! Resource Sparking the Conversation in Your Community: A DIY Guide to Planning Your Own Community Wealth Building Summit How can community members catalyze a local conversation around building a stronger, more equitable local economy? The Democracy Collaborative offers this resource as part of their Community Wealth Innovators Series. Subscribe to  It's free! Click here!  Help support the voice of community development  Your Voice! Do you have a national or regional event coming up? Let us know at events@nhi.org! Affordable Housing and . . . a Museum? Keli Tianga, Shelterforce For over 30 years, Broadway Housing Communities has developed its own formula for meeting the housing needs of West Harlem's lowest-income residents. One of its unorthodox ingredients has been art galleries, and now . . .  More Nonprofits--Yes You Can Advocate. And Now's The Time Miriam Axel-Lute, Shelterforce We all know there are some political restrictions on 501(c)3s, but most of us don't know exactly what they are (hint: you can do a lot more than you think). When we as nonprofits speak up, it's often very carefully limited to our wheelhouse--advocating to keep the programs that fund us alive and funded, or for rule changes that let us do our jobs better. We can't afford to do that any longer. Not Your Average Community Garden Ashley Milton, Center for Sustainable Development A good community garden is a space that nurtures hope, natural abundance, and growth, and eventually moves beyond food and into the realm of relationship-building that can help sustain healthy communities. Here is how, step by step, a group of partners convened the young residents of a transitional housing development to transform an empty yard into one piece of a growing urban food hub. Fair Housing Is NOT War on the Suburbs Jason Reece, Knowlton School of Architecture The revised fair housing rule--which is under threat again from the new Trump administration--has undergone much debate here on Rooflines and elsewhere, but what is lost in this debate is that rule was successfully piloted before, and this experience is . . . More You Said It! On CFPB: Government for the People Rich Cordray and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau team have done an incredible job of implementing fairness in banking processes/procedures, protecting the consumer, and educating consumers to know before they owe. If you wanted an example of a regulatory agency that was of the people, for the people, CFPB would be it. Don't let . . . --Lou Tisler, more In Case You Missed It One Week In -- What's Changing for You? A Community Planning Process (Even a Good One) Is Not Enough Keeping Your Artists Close to Home CFPB: Government for the People OCC to Let Tech Companies Become Banks--Is This a Good Thing? Creating Miles of Art in the Mile High City Looking for a Job? Community Land Trust Manager This is a versatile role requiring the candidate to be adept at community relations, community organizing, housing development, advocacy, and public policy . . . Read Full Listing Chief Housing Planner Will help cities and towns plan for housing production and preservation, with a special focus on affordable housing; will assist in evaluating and improving state laws . . . Read Full Listing More Job Listings Director of Applied Research, Woodstock Institute Real Estate Development Director, NCALL Project Manager, Home City Housing Development, LLC Director of Real Estate, Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation Director of Loan Originations, The Corporation for Supportive Housing Director of Compliance, Mutual Housing California Vice President of Financial Services, Civic Builders Does your organization want to post a job ad? Click here to learn how! In This Issue Resource You Said It! In Case You Missed It Jobs Share  Shelterforce Weekly  with your colleagues Featured Bloggers Bob Annibale Citi Laura Barrett Interfaith Worker Justice Murtaza Baxamusa Sol Price School of Public Policy, USC Joe Belden Housing Assistance Council Michael Bodaken National Housing Trust Raphael Bostic USC Price School of Public Policy Janis Bowdler JPMorgan Chase & Co. Bill Bynum HOPE Credit Union John Emmeus Davis Burlington Associates  Steve Dubb Democracy Collaborative Ana Garcia-Ashley Gamaliel Foundation Jamaal Green Portland State University John Henneberger Texas Low Income Housing Information Service Lisa Hodges Hodges Development, LLC David Holtzman Planner, Louisa County, Va. Josh Ishimatsu National CAPACD Rick Jacobus Street Level Advisors Daniel Kravetz Freelance Writer Andrea Levere CFED Alan Mallach Center for Community Progress Alexandra Moffett-Bateau City University of New York Casius Pealer Tulane University Jonathan Reckford Habitat for Humanity Cy Richardson National Urban League Doug Ryan CFED Barbara Sard Center on Budget and Policy Priorities   Josh Silver NCRC James Tracy  San Francisco Community  Land Trust Eva Wingren Baltimore Community Foundation Shelterforce Weekly Editor, Miriam Axel-Lute Senior Editor, Lillian M. Ortiz Associate Editor, Keli Tianga Publisher, Harold Simon Assistant Publisher, Terri L. Clegg Shelterforce is made possible by the generous support of Kresge Foundation ● Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Surdna Foundation ● The Ford Foundation John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Bank of America Foundation ● JPMorgan Chase Foundation Citi Community Development ● NeighborWorks America PNC Bank Foundation ● Wells Fargo Housing Foundation Hyde and Watson Foundation ● Ocwen Financial Corporation . . . and with the support of readers like you.  Shelterforce | Rooflines | National Housing Institute