NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

We are under pressure to meet agreed-upon timelines for site preparation, store design, permitting, and construction. Construction is anticipated to start in the third quarter of 2023. In 2024, the Louisville Community Grocery should open its doors in Smoketown , a downtown neighborhood and the first of the city’s Black settlements.

Food 111

Food Construction Public and Social Policy Governance 111

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

“We continued to fight against the site and citing environmental burdens while also looking forward to how we bring renewable energy to the community.” The first phase involved funding project construction—which Working Power is financing. Sunset Park Solar is looking at two phases of financing.

Energy 132

Energy Environmental Finance Governance 132

MNA Association

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Try to make grants available for nonprofit Research and Development into Compressed Agricultural Fiber and Cross-Laminated timber for carbon-sequestering construction materials. What are three specific ways in which, if elected, you would partner with and strengthen the nonprofit sector?

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofits 98

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 9, 2023

Image credit: Kenny Eliason on unsplash.com This is the fifth article in NPQ ’s series titled Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. This is housing that was part of the public housing system that since 2014 has been directly managed by MEDA.

Culture 98

Culture Cultural Diversity Public and Nonprofit Management Community Development 98

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The diffusion of new and innovative models of community-owned commercial real estate is enhancing resident power and self-determination. These themes of relationship building, seeking coalition partners, linking to Black community values, and creating structures of support show up throughout the series.

Finance 122

Finance Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Education 122

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Image credit: Matt Briney on unsplash.com This is the second article in NPQ ’s series titled Building Power, Fighting Displacement: Stories from Asian Pacific America, coproduced with the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development ( National CAPACD ).

Community Development 128

Community Development Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management Leadership 128

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. Fortunately, we have key allies like the New York Credit Union Association , which represents over 300 credit unions statewide and has backed the campaign.

Finance 136

Finance Law Poverty Governance 136

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Image credit: coffeekai on istock.com Community is one of humanity’s great achievements. Yet community development corporations , a $28 billion sector of over 6,200 nonprofits that support local community economic development, are largely invisible in the national conversation. CDCs are dead.

Community Development 135

Community Development Public and Social Policy Governance Production 135

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Developing Healthy Individuals “Positive psychology is the scientific study of what makes individuals and communities thrive.”— International Positive Psychology Association When focusing on a healthy context, there is a risk of falling into naïve holism, an ineffective mindset commonly seen in system perspectives.

Philanthropy 139

Philanthropy Homelessness Psychology Health 139

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 17, 2023

Coproduced by Partners for Rural Transformation, a coalition of six regional community development financial institutions, and NPQ , the authors highlight efforts to address multigenerational poverty in Appalachia, the rural West, Indian Country, South Texas, and the Mississippi Delta.

Poverty 131

Poverty Community Development Finance Philanthropy 131

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2024

As a Puerto Rico-based nonprofit that leverages community-based abandonment inventories, community–municipal partnerships, a rehabilitation and construction team, and in-house legal expertise to convert abandoned buildings and lots into opportunities for community-led development, the lack of access to financing nearly destroyed the organization.

Non-Profits 124

Non-Profits Finance Collaborations Public and Nonprofit Management 124

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

But it was through this kind of collective association, largely of women, in Los Angeles that we got fresh produce. From New Orleans, I learned how to go about constructing a community land trust. Particularly when my mom was a single parent, it was hard to come by income to be able to take care of three growing boys.

Public and Social Policy 139

Public and Social Policy Education Education Recruitment 139

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 21, 2023

By Vurayayi Pugeni , Caroline Pugeni & Dan Maxson International community development has changed significantly over its history, shifting from primarily responding to disaster events to improving communities using a sectoral approach to issues like health, agriculture, and water and sanitation.

Culture 52

Culture Agriculture Values Health 52