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Newsletters
| Featured
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  • | Featured

AFA adds local elected, national philanthropic leaders to its Advisory Council

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Newsletters
| Economic & Community Development, Housing, Transit & Infrastructure
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  • | Economic & Community Development, Housing, Transit & Infrastructure

The Expanding Mandate: Rethinking Economic Development for People and Place

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Reports
| Economic & Community Development, Housing
  • Reports
  • | Economic & Community Development, Housing

Public Assets Corporations Playbook

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Newsletters
| Transit & Infrastructure
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  • | Transit & Infrastructure

Testing Transit on the Global Stage: AFA & Johnson County Unite for the World Cup in Kansas City

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Newsletters
| Economic & Community Development, Housing
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  • | Economic & Community Development, Housing

From Grantmaking to Game-Changing: How Community Foundations Can Shape Local Housing

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Newsletters
| Economic & Community Development
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  • | Economic & Community Development

Attn Local Leaders: OZ Designation Toolkit is Here

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Newsletters
| Transit & Infrastructure
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  • | Transit & Infrastructure

Local Leaders, National Impact: AFA’s Work During Infrastructure Week 2026

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Newsletters
| Economic & Community Development, Transit & Infrastructure
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  • | Economic & Community Development, Transit & Infrastructure

Happy Economic Development Week!

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Newsletters
| Economic & Community Development, Transit & Infrastructure, Workforce Development
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  • | Economic & Community Development, Transit & Infrastructure, Workforce Development

Riverside Hosts AFA: Local Leadership, Shared Purpose & Forward Momentum

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Newsletters
| Economic & Community Development
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  • | Economic & Community Development

Making Opportunity Zones 2.0 Work for Communities

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