Mining the Mission | Turning Lemons Into Lemonade — and Houses Into Homes

Nonprofits can’t afford to throw money at their problems. Creative thinking is an extraordinarily vital item for them to have in their toolkit in order to further their missions. One way to actualize such thinking is for them to be on the lookout for socioeconomic changes and to leverage those changes in support of their their organizations’ goals.
Reporting from Modesto, California, last week, National Public Radio’s Morning Edition observed that “Habitat for Humanity … is finding bargains on parcels [of land] the nonprofit couldn’t have afforded two years ago.” The collapse of the subprime mortgage market has hit Modesto especially …read more