Housing Network Expands Capacity Through Nonprofit Learning Partnership
Grounded Solutions Network sponsors Nonprofit Quarterly's Leading Edge program, connecting community land trusts and housing justice organizations with management training amid federal funding pressures — infrastructure for the infrastructure.
Grounded Solutions Network has become a 2026 Community-Level Sponsor of Nonprofit Quarterly’s Leading Edge program, extending access to over 50 expert-led webinars and management resources to its strategic partners and Champion-level members. The partnership arrives as nonprofits nationwide face what both organizations describe as significant federal funding cuts and mounting organizational pressures.
The move reflects a particular kind of governance challenge — how organizations advancing structural alternatives like community land trusts sustain themselves when traditional funding contracts. Grounded Solutions, which emerged from a 2016 merger of the National Community Land Trust Network and Cornerstone Partnership, focuses on housing models designed to remain affordable across generations, a temporal approach to stewardship that requires institutional resilience to match.
Nonprofit Quarterly reaches more than 800,000 monthly readers with field analysis and practical tools. Laura Capponi, Grounded Solutions’ Director of Membership, framed the collaboration as “meeting this moment with community, courage, and shared learning” — language that positions capacity-building not as technical training but as collective practice under pressure. The partnership offers equity-centered management strategies, fundraising guidance, and what both organizations emphasize as expanded peer learning networks.
The structure matters here: strategic partners and Champion-level members receive full access, while standard organizational members are encouraged to upgrade. It’s a tiered model of resource distribution within a network dedicated to housing equity — itself a small test of how values translate into organizational design.