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 121

Culture Retail Community Development Collaborations 121

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

For instance, the Anchorage Community Land Trust , which began in 2003 and is the oldest example reviewed in the report, acquired land in a BIPOC neighborhood that had a 25.1 percent poverty rate (as of 2001). Seeded with an initial $5 million grant from a local foundation, the land trust acquired nine parcels between 2005 and 2011.

Public and Nonprofit Management 103

Public and Nonprofit Management Participation and motivation Nonprofit governance and management Poverty 103

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 11, 2023

Business leaders, community organizers, and local policymakers in these places have attempted to replicate the success of Silicon Valley by attracting venture capital, creating business incubators and accelerators, and building an entrepreneurial ecosystem. Yet, these attempts have not significantly reverted economic decline.

Entrepreneurship 127

Entrepreneurship Collaborations Food Finance 127

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Harmful assumptions about payment behavior effectively criminalizes poverty and understates the harm that water shutoffs cause to low-income communities. More importantly, it sparked conversations and collaboration. It points to the alliance’s five interlocking solutions , which serve as implementation strategies for utilities.

Public and Social Policy 137

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Collaborations Universities 137

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. Black excellence abounds here.

Food 105

Food Public and Nonprofit Management Medical Community Development 105

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Proponents of this positive psychology movement argue that poor people should not be “completely defined by their poverty, nor can they be fully understood in its terms alone.” Like Nussbaum’s framework for healthy context, researchers have developed comprehensive approaches applicable to individuals.

Philanthropy 139

Philanthropy Homelessness Psychology Health 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

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Public health professionals and community developers—along with community activists—were having “aha” moments about the linkage between social determinants of health and terrible, systemic health outcomes for people of color and those living on low incomes.

Health 121

Health Race and Ethnicity Food Children 121

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 124

Foundations Culture Charitable Contribution Health 124

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Often, the very same nonprofit that is advocating for social justice policy may pay its own workers poverty-level wages. Nelson Colón of the Puerto Rico Community Foundation, and Clara Miller, president emerita of the Heron Foundation—come from philanthropy. The other five work for nonprofit intermediary organizations.

Public and Social Policy 130

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 130

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Mississippi has a rich culture, but for generations, its Black communities have experienced health inequities intertwined with discrimination, poverty, and racial exclusion.

Food 123

Food Agriculture Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 123

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

And we knew that poverty and racism were deeply entrenched, and that takes more than three years. We would hope and expect that nonprofits are reducing poverty and reducing inequality. It’s a collaborative facilitation and consulting firm. And we were talking about these issues in three-year grant cycles.

Public and Social Policy 103

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance Public and Nonprofit Management 103

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 111

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Poverty Health 111

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

These new laws channeled philanthropic assets into municipal bonds and community development loan funds, which stabilized local municipalities. Notes Resonance: A Framework for Philanthropic Transformation (Oakland, CA: Justice Funders and The Resonance Collaborative).

Public and Social Policy 127

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Taxation 127

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

Are poverty wages less miserable because your boss is Black? If nonprofit and community organizations were able to restore the self-financing that was once the norm for social movements, they could begin to do the work of moving society away from its extractive and exploitative practices. Dubb, “The Economy is ” Ibid.

Public and Social Policy 88

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 88