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 124

Poverty Community Development Finance Philanthropy 124

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The result of their work is more places for people to gather and experience nature, increased social cohesion, restored civic trust, and perhaps most importantly, community development that benefits all residents. In Akron, more than 20 public, nonprofit, and community groups came together to form the Civic Commons team.

Public and Social Policy 141

Public and Social Policy Construction Community Development Governance 141

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

For years, I have directed IFF , a community development financial institution that specializes in nonprofit facilities lending. For example, I recall asking a health clinic with which we worked, “How big should the waiting room be?” Quality nonprofit facilities are community development.

Values 106

Values Community Development Psychology Healthcare 106

Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

Grants are made for scholarly exhibitions at museums, curatorial research, visual arts programming at artist-centered organizations, artist residencies and commissions, arts writing, and efforts to promote the health, welfare, and first amendment rights of artists. Areas served: US. The Kresge Foundation. Areas served: US. Knight Foundation.

Culture 108

Culture Foundations Education Education 108

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.

Poverty 99

Poverty Agriculture Community Development Culture 99

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The report, Never More Urgent , reveals that the greatest disparities facing Black and Brown people in the United States are in five main areas: justice, food and housing security, education, economic security, and health. Instead, most DEI efforts are led by human resource professionals with limited understanding of communities like Camden.

Food 125

Food Agriculture Poverty Public and Social Policy 125

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.

Food 87

Food Public and Nonprofit Management Medical Community Development 87

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 107

Food Finance Community Development Culture 107

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The report concludes with guiding principles on how utilities can develop better informed affordability policies and prevent shutoffs. The pilot helped utilities embrace the critical role they play in ensuring their customers’ health and explore ways to relieve water debt stress.

Public and Social Policy 119

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Collaborations Universities 119

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

It does not surprise, then, that Black neighborhoods face health disparities relative to their white neighbors, with marked differences in rates of infant mortality, asthma, gun violence, and life expectancy. To facilitate volunteer recruitment, they developed a series of helpful tasks suitable for recurrent or one-off participation.

Food 105

Food Construction Public and Social Policy Governance 105

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

When schools and daycares shuttered, when food and other supply chains broke, who delivered baby supplies to parents juggling virtual work and young children? The nonprofit sector, along with community-based mutual aid networks , stepped up to meet immediate needs. Who brought food to housebound elders? It wasn’t for-profit companies.

Governance 91

Governance Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit Administration and Development Finance 91

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Mission: To improve access and quality of education for 4 million children living in underserved communities in India. Mission: To help eradicate extreme poverty through community development projects in urban sanitation, water filtration, health, alternative energy, and economic empowerment. Kijani ● kijani.ngo.

Non-Profits 52

Non-Profits Poverty Children Education 52

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Combined with other forms of PTSD, such as the cultural PTSD that is a legacy of slavery (eg, distrust within the Black community, expectation of failure, constant belief that “the system” is against them), financial PTSD is a recipe for disaster. Humans are complicated. No framework can explain every situation.

Poverty 80

Poverty Children Culture Food 80

Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Through CSR initiatives, companies aim to give back to society by addressing various issues such as sustainability, community development, employee welfare, ethical business practices, and philanthropic involvement. Jude Children’s Research Hospital by raising funds for pediatric cancer research.

Volunteerism 52

Volunteerism Volunteerism Disaster Relief Food 52

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 2, 2023

Image Credit: Daniel Xavier on pexels This is the fourth article in NPQ ’s series titled Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. How does a small Latinx community organize itself to support homegrown businesses? At Adelante Mujeres, the staff reflects the community served. How does this all work in practice?

Participation and motivation 52

Participation and motivation Nonprofit governance and management Community Development Leadership 52

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 8, 2023

Arturo Mendez, a representative for Mission Arts Performance Project —a community-centered project that activates spaces around the Mission—believes this effort is critical to the community’s health.

Activism 66

Activism Children Health Community Development 66

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

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

I was born in Cabo Verde (Cape Verde) and started working in public health there as a clinical psychologist. I was responsible for mental health in what was, at the time, one of the world’s poorest countries. There I was, talking to parents about lead poisoning, doing what we do so readily in public health: telling people what to do.

Health 120

Health Race and Ethnicity Food Children 120

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The hope that our children would enjoy a better life than ours seems shattered. Philanthropic and development organizations too often find themselves falling behind in a relentless and exhausting race to catch up. There is widespread apprehension about the accumulation of complex societal and environmental issues.

Health 88

Health Public and Social Policy Medical Governance 88

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 21, 2023

The need to develop more childcare businesses is obvious, but how to build and sustain viable childcare businesses is not. the community development financial institution where I work, lends to families and businesses throughout the state of Maine. What can be done to address this gap? Coastal Enterprises, Inc.,

Curriculum and Teaching 83

Curriculum and Teaching Finance Children Recruitment 83

Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Health and wellness (physical and mental) – 12%. Children and youth – 10%. International development and relief – 6%. Community development – 3%. Latin America and the Caribbean – 9%. 3) 74% of GivingTuesday donors are female, 25% male, and 1% non-binary. Women and girls – 4%.

Public and Social Policy 145

Public and Social Policy Public Policy Homelessness Charitable Organizations 145

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Over the past decade, both secular building interests and dozens of churches and religious organizations have planned, financed, and constructed affordable housing and community development projects across the United States and Canada. The project created over 100 permanent jobs for local Louisville residents.

Community Development 117

Community Development Finance Production Governance 117

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2024

A Brief History of US Welfare Welfare was first established in the United States by Illinois reformers in the early 1900s as a cash payment program for poor (almost exclusively White) widows who could not raise their children without help once their husbands died. But also included was what became known as welfare.

Public and Social Policy 99

Public and Social Policy Poverty Children Law 99

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Black women who volunteered for the Black Panther Party—like Vanetta Molson-Turner , a registered nurse who contributed her time and expertise to the Black Panther Party’s Community Survival Programs —pooled their resources to serve their people in response to underinvestment and discrimination.

Philanthropy 113

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Healthcare Universities 113

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 26, 2023

4 Once on Prospect, I was awash in a sea of excitement and activity as over 150 residents, labor activists, students, and onlookers buzzed about, handing out food and water, playing with young children, stewarding informational tables, dancing to the music, and finishing a massive art project that immediately drew my attention.

Education 78

Education Education Universities Public and Nonprofit Management 78

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Since 2017, Funders for Housing and Opportunity (FHO), a funder collaborative that believes a stable, affordable home is the foundation for health, opportunity, and justice, has directed about a third of its $17 million in grants to policy advocacy and organizing.

Public and Social Policy 104

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Poverty Health 104

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2023

The idea behind it was to provide child care for a diverse population of children, both economically and racially. We walked with the community and built the Gem City market with a full service grocery store, with a teaching kitchen, community room and a health clinic. And so our first project was the Gem City market.

Public and Social Policy 85

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Food Nonprofit governance and management 85

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 7, 2023

We interviewed housing policy experts, fair housing experts, and community development experts. And then we started finding people around the country who were working on this issue—small community groups that started, many of them after reading The Color of Law, and many long before The Color of Law came out.

Law 94

Law Governance Nonprofit Administration and Development Poverty 94

MNA Association

OCTOBER 16, 2024

As the parents to four young children, it’s been important to us to improve pediatric health care and neonatal intensive care so every newborn baby in our state has the best chance at a healthy life. In 2020, Carmen and I were privileged to contribute $4 million to help bring the upgraded neonatal intensive care unit to Bozeman Health.

Public and Social Policy 98

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