Agriculture, Community Development and Foundations

From Impact Investing to “Impact-First” Investing—What Is the Field Learning?

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 15, 2025

But while the report makes various calls to action (for foundations, donors, donor-advised-fund sponsors, lawyers, and policymakers, among others), it also offers a snapshot of the state of the field today, highlighting initial successes and indicating where further change in the field is required. Each fund is unique.

Public and Social Policy

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Reshaping the Idea of Rural America: Stories from Our Communities

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 24, 2023

Coproduced by Partners for Rural Transformation, a coalition of six regional community development financial institutions, and NPQ , authors highlight efforts to address multi-generational poverty in Appalachia, the rural West, Indian Country, South Texas, and the Mississippi Delta. What do you picture when you think of rural?

Poverty

Poverty Agriculture Community Development Culture

Building Community Capacity in Rural East Texas: The Long Lift

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This is a question animating much of our work in East Texas, where a local family foundation ( T.L.L. Temple ) and a community development financial institution ( Communities Unlimited ) are teaming to develop bottom-up structural solutions to building rural capacity.

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Making Policy Work for Rural Communities: The Value of Community Voice

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 31, 2023

Coproduced by Partners for Rural Transformation, a coalition of six regional community development financial institutions, and NPQ , authors highlight efforts to address multi-generational poverty in Appalachia, the rural West, Indian Country, South Texas, and the Mississippi Delta. We have a population of less than 400.We

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Making Food Systems Work for People of Color: Six Action Steps

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

And in so doing we are challenging the community development field to do better—by creating new tools to support truly equitable food-oriented development. Many large community development financial institutions , credit unions, and foundations present themselves as community-based food financing leaders.

Food

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Organizing a Community Around Food Sovereignty

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In the series, urban and rural grassroots leaders from across the United States share how their communities are developing and implementing strategies—grounded in local places, cultures, and histories—to shift power and achieve systemic change. These ideals and beliefs are built into how EFAI works. million grant to LISC Indianapolis.

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Setting a Co-op Table for Food Justice in Louisville

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A one-acre parcel in Smoketown that LCG now owns, the long-vacant site, former home of the Louisville Slugger factory , is a gift from the Community Foundation of Louisville. Such donations by foundations are not common. In 2015, Hillerich & Bradsby, owners of Louisville Slugger Company, donated the land to the foundation.

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Nelson Colón of the Puerto Rico Community Foundation, and Clara Miller, president emerita of the Heron Foundation—come from philanthropy. Department of Agriculture, not to mention public opinion, supported programs and services that would preserve small farms. Two of them—Dr. They couldn’t get credit to buy a tractor.

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Ancestor in the Making: A Future Where Philanthropy’s Legacy Is Stopping the Bad and Building the New

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

These successes transformed our agricultural practices, so that rather than relying on large commercial farms, regenerative farming practices gained prominence, creating food sovereignty. But how would they know what the community needs?” Mom says that democratic loan funds used to be rare.” She’s right.

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CDFIs Transform Rural Economies. We Just Need to Get Them There.

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 30, 2024

By Jerry Kenney , Ines Polonius & Gustavo Lasala How do we build thriving rural communities in the 21st century? Enter community development financial institutions (CDFIs). Temple Foundation, a place-based private family foundation, created the Rural Opportunity Catalyst for East Texas (ROC-ET) Initiative.

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What Does Finance for the People Look Like?

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 8, 2025

Public bankscreated by governments and chartered to serve the public interestoffer a powerful model to advance racial equity, public accountability, and community self-determination. A public bank is not just a reformits a necessary foundation for meaningful and lasting change that invests directly in community wellbeing.

Finance

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Innovating for a Healthy Context

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The Right Livelihood Foundation recognized Sekem as a blueprint for a healthy corporation in the 21 st century. I4HCSecuring Our Investments for a More Sustainable Future Can I4HC unlock significant progress in development or is it merely old wine in new bottles? I4HC will have to explore many old and new questions and uncertainties.

Health

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The Imaginal Cells of the Solidarity Economy: Community Ownership

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2023

Listen to the Cities@Tufts Podcast (or on the app of your choice): “The Imaginal Cells of the Solidarity Economy: Community Ownership” Transcript [The timestamps in the transcript correspond with the audio version of this lecture.] I mean, well — I was going to say huge — it’s significant that we have a community board.

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Unlikely Advocates: Worker Co-ops, Grassroots Organizing, and Public Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

But if we willfully exclude ourselves from Congressional processes, we leave money and resources on the table that will provide vital resources to our communities. We should not be naive about the resources of the government, which, like foundation endowments, are fueled by wealth that comes from our communities in the first place.

Public Policy

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2024 Nonprofit Voter Guide

MNA Association

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Montana’s nonprofit sector strengthens the foundation of our communities, making them stronger, healthier, and more vibrant. Try to make grants available for nonprofit Research and Development into Compressed Agricultural Fiber and Cross-Laminated timber for carbon-sequestering construction materials.

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

Ancestor in the Making: A Future Where Philanthropy’s Legacy Is Stopping the Bad and Building the New

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