NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Image credit: Ian Nicole Reambonanza on Unsplash This is the fourth 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 ). How does a refugee community organize itself?

Race and Ethnicity 128

Race and Ethnicity Community Development Participation and motivation Culture 128

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 1, 2023

So too is collaboration. BlacSpace is a cooperative that brings together expertise in real-estate ownership and development, cooperative structures, business systems, art making, activism, and cultural anchoring, stimulating conversations about cultural kitchens and a unique collaboration to cultivate them.

Culture 128

Culture Retail Community Development Collaborations 128

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

With this in mind, we created Community Owned Real Estate—a unique, collaborative project to acquire commercial buildings on the Eastside of Los Angeles. The project is led by three local, mission-driven organizations: Inclusive Action, East LA Community Corporation, and Little Tokyo Service Center. Traditional views of “risk.”

Culture 128

Culture Community Development Collaborations Activism 128

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The same elements [needed for] BIPOC communities to benefit from public funding are also the most promising approaches to address…climate change. We derive these findings from a report we collaborated on, recently published by the National Resources Defense Council, that explored these issues.

Governance 109

Governance Community Development Environmental Collaborations 109

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Temple ) and a community development financial institution ( Communities Unlimited ) are teaming to develop bottom-up structural solutions to building rural capacity. When we talk about economic development in East Texas, we often like to start with a the figure below, which comes from a T.L.L.

Entrepreneurship 126

Entrepreneurship Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations 126

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 122

Food Finance Community Development Culture 122

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Adiza is passionate about policy and advocacy, housing affordability, community development, and creating equitable, inclusive, and cost-effective solutions to long-standing societal problems. Making a lasting impression also requires collaborating and forming strong bonds with partners and stakeholders.

Public Policy 77

Public Policy Public and Social Policy Collaborations Community Development 77

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 13, 2023

Through collaborative action, Mothers Out Front East Boston is fighting for the right to breathe clean air and live and work in a community that is safe and healthy. Though our neighbor, Massport is inaccessible to our community. We are demanding equal protection and equal enforcement of environmental laws and regulations.

Race and Ethnicity 128

Race and Ethnicity Health Environmental Children 128

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

For movements to respond effectively, this requires not only reaching more people but also collaborating more effectively, especially by connecting multiple networks through shared infrastructure.

Philanthropy 139

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Health 139

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 17, 2023

Most practitioners working in community development have accepted this as the reality of impact investing: The harder you drive for social impact in disadvantaged communities, the farther away you get from unbuffered full market return.

Marketing 122

Marketing Marketing Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management 122

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 3, 2024

In Washington, DC, the city’s Department of Housing and Community Development reports that 18,300 units of affordable housing of this kind became unaffordable between 2006 and 2017. This research was supported by the Small Buildings Collaborative with Mi Casa Inc., This is no small matter.

Values 137

Values Public and Nonprofit Management Construction Finance 137

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Back in 2012, longtime CLT advocate John Emmeus Davis wrote in Shelterforce that collaboration between the land banks and CLTs is, to use the hackneyed phrase, an obvious “win-win.” While these objectives differ, there is a clear overlap of priorities and opportunities to advance shared equitable community development goals.

Public and Social Policy 116

Public and Social Policy Community Development Governance Agriculture 116

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 11, 2023

Also, because successful collaborations with local actors benefited all collaborators, one success bred another, creating a chain reaction of more local bricolage that extended the ventures’ duration. As a result, the ventures’ growth was not fast, but steady and durable.

Entrepreneurship 130

Entrepreneurship Collaborations Food Finance 130

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 26, 2023

Image Credit: Bruno Guerrero on unsplash.com This is the third article in NPQ ’s series titled Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. Ogunsalu spoke at the Purple Line Corridor Coalition ’s first “Annual Celebration of Community and Leadership.”

Construction 98

Construction Community Development Governance Environmental 98

Candid

JUNE 9, 2021

We collaborated on this work with practitioners across the global participatory grantmaking community. Set up in March 2020, the Participatory Grantmaking Community developed as a place to share resources, challenges, and cheerlead the practice.

Philanthropy 119

Philanthropy Community Development Foundations Collaborations 119

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Since January 2020, I’ve had the honor of leading the United Northeast Community Development Corporation (UNEC), a neighborhood-based community development corporation founded and led by residents of Northeast Indianapolis, a center of Black life in this Midwestern city for generations.

Food 111

Food Public and Nonprofit Management Medical Community Development 111

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In its first two years, the NEW Fellowship was funded by Communities of Opportunity (which receives support from King County and the Seattle Foundation) and the New Economy Washington Funders Collaborative. The Seattle Foundation has been a leader in a national movement to build Black funds.

Nonprofit governance and management 124

Nonprofit governance and management Food Public and Nonprofit Management Environmental 124

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 16, 2023

Image credit: Corey Agopian on unsplash.com This article concludes NPQ’s series Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. It also laid out the building blocks to achieving three key goals: Establish the infrastructure and processes to drive inclusive equitable community development. A falta de pan, casabe.

Public and Nonprofit Management 98

Public and Nonprofit Management Community Development Nonprofit governance and management Cultural Diversity 98

Bloomerang

JUNE 17, 2022

Pride Foundation provides critical funding to the community organizations that are actively addressing the needs of and expanding opportunities for LGBTQ+ people in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. Priority is given to projects that collaborate with and center LGBTQ+ voices and communities. PFund Foundation.

Foundations 131

Foundations Culture Charitable Contribution Health 131

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 13, 2022

More importantly, it sparked conversations and collaboration. That relationship didn’t exist with SPU (Seattle Public Utilities) before the pilot,” said César García, a pilot community participant and cofounder of the Seattle based organization, Lake City Collective.

Public and Social Policy 140

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Collaborations Universities 140

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Provide diversity and inclusion training for all staff and board members, to increase awareness and understanding of the issues faced by underserved communities. Develop partnerships and alliances with other organizations that serve BIPOC communities, and collaborate on initiatives that promote diversity and inclusion.

Leadership 122

Leadership Public and Social Policy Poverty Race and Ethnicity 122

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 5, 2024

By Gena Rotstein Trust-based philanthropy seeks to address historical and ongoing power imbalances by repositioning funders and grantees as collaborative partners, operating on equal footing. Having Peyasu as a trustee was an important first step.

Philanthropy 126

Philanthropy Culture Foundations Leadership 126

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2023

For instance, Art.coop and Grantmakers in the Arts are collaborating to educate funders about power-shifting and solidarity principles, creating shared language and frameworks that funders can draw on as they develop and implement funding strategies. Artists are essential to any vision that calls the future into question.

Philanthropy 111

Philanthropy Culture Agriculture Community Development 111

Care2

OCTOBER 14, 2010

We are very invested in sharing our experiences and learning as we go, including opportunities to put thoughts together formally like the whitepaper on collaboration we published last year.

Nonprofit governance and management 61

Nonprofit governance and management Collaborations Community Development Governance 61

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 17, 2024

Despite their best intentions, minority deposit institutions (MDIs) and community development financial institutions (CDFIs), like other small banks, simply lack the capital base to close the racial gap. The people of Massachusetts are also pushing for a public bank to benefit small businesses and community development.

Public and Social Policy 135

Public and Social Policy Finance Governance Disaster Relief 135

Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Corporate Partnerships: Collaborated with brands that support or cater to the LGBTQ+ community, creating themed products and promotional content that resonate with the audience all year. Digital Events: Hosted virtual events and discussions to deepen engagement and community feeling during Pride Month.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 100

Nonprofit Administration and Development Children Nonprofits Collaborations 100

The Agitator

MARCH 25, 2013

million) enables peer learning and collaboration among more than 100 affordable housing and community development leaders. Family Care International – New York, New York ($1 million) makes pregnancy and childbirth safer for mothers worldwide through research, advocacy, and partnerships.

Foundations 79

Foundations Nonprofits Law Energy 79

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

One result of this collaboration is a new report, Building Our Future: Grassroots Reflections on Social Housing , which the two of us helped author, along with several colleagues. What We’ve Learned So Far Over the last two years, PolicyLink has convened grassroots housing, climate, and economic justice organizers across the country.

Public and Social Policy 143

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development 143

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The West Holmes Community Development Organization, which traces its origins to one of these farms, modernized their cooperative farm and started a farmer’s market , which now forms part of a youth-led, sustainable food system for Mileston and Holmes County.

Food 126

Food Agriculture Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 126

The Volunteer Hub

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

According to Nonprofit Source, 90% of company executives indicated that partnering with a reputable nonprofit organization enhanced their brand and 89% believe partnering leverages their ability to improve the community. Developing partnerships presents a win-win-win scenario for your nonprofit, the community, and your corporate partner.

Volunteerism 86

Volunteerism Volunteerism Non-Profits Public and Nonprofit Management 86

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 12, 2023

To advance this work, a group of us at the Bronx Cooperative Development Institute (better known as BCDI), along with community partner nonprofits, have collaborated over the past four years to develop answers to the question: How can high schools support economic democracy in the Bronx?

Curriculum and Teaching 105

Curriculum and Teaching Education Education Public and Nonprofit Management 105

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

Image Credit: Vyacheslav Dumchev on istock This is the second article in NPQ ’s series titled Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. The collaboration between the tenant unions created the pressure needed to bring about change. In Long Beach, CA, Latinx renters face increasing threats of gentrification and displacement.

Law 98

Law Cultural Diversity Community Development Children 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 18, 2024

This can look like facilitated meetings where a mostly baked plan is shared to create an image of collaboration. At this late stage, it’s often deeply uncomfortable to name that the plan fails to address root problems or to harness community assets. Engaging a handpicked subset of nonprofit leaders and community providers.

Philanthropy 129

Philanthropy Children Activism Leadership 129

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

About the Twin Cities, Duranti-Martinez reports that, “With support from local and county agencies, community development financial institutions (CDFIs), and cooperative partners, PIP CLT acquired its first three properties in 2021, with several more in the pipeline” (20).

Public and Nonprofit Management 105

Public and Nonprofit Management Participation and motivation Nonprofit governance and management Poverty 105

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

This type of community-owned solar will be the first of its kind in Brooklyn.” The project has been evolving as we learn and collaborate with our partners. Over the next few months, UPROSE will engage in community outreach to enroll subscribers.

Energy 132

Energy Environmental Finance Governance 132

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 22, 2023

But in 2016, a group of marine scientists and conservation managers collaborated with the community of Alligator Head to establish the East Portland Fishing Sanctuary , with the goal of restoring the island’s coast. Many have left the profession altogether.

Education 111

Education Education Foundations Environmental 111

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. This requires that ecosystem organizers build capacity for practicing collective governance, cooperative ownership, community-driven decision-making, and deep democracy.

Finance 122

Finance Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Education 122