NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Image credit: Photo by Raychan on Unsplash This article introduces a new NPQ series, titled Building Power, Fighting Displacement: Stories from Asian Pacific America, coproduced with the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development ( National CAPACD ). What Is Comprehensive Community Development?

Values 126

Values Community Development Race and Ethnicity Culture 126

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 3, 2024

For new construction, larger buildings can result in smaller per-unit costs. 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. units per building between 1987 and 1994 to 80.3

Values 137

Values Public and Nonprofit Management Construction Finance 137

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.

Values 130

Values Poverty Nonprofit Administration and Development Community Development 130

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 17, 2024

So as folks have talked about, there’s predevelopment financing, acquisition, rehab or construction, and then the long-term permanent financing. “We’re so concerned…with saving the property in the first place that we often forget we need long-term support for building management and sustainability.” The third piece is financing.

Finance 127

Finance Construction Management Education 127

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

It can create secure, well-paying construction and repair jobs and ensure that housing is green, energy-efficient, and more resilient to climate disasters. Social housing campaigns look different in different communities.

Public and Social Policy 143

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 29, 2023

What if the tens of thousands of churches currently projected to close in the next few years put their assets into trusts deeply aligned with community development, versus stranding those assets and real estate as they shutter?

Nonprofit governance and management 119

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Community Development 119

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 10, 2024

Image credit: Drew Katz Black Bostonian communities citywide have more than just something to say for themselves: their economies are building institutions that prioritize asset-based community development and are creating the foundations for a local solidarity economy.

Food 131

Food Community Development Medical Nonprofit governance and management 131

Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

The animating principle of Kresge’s Arts & Culture Program is equitable Creative Placemaking, which elevates arts, culture, and community-engaged design as central elements of community development and planning. Areas served: US. Knight Foundation. Areas served: Tennessee (*specific counties only – listed on website).

Culture 111

Culture Foundations Education Education 111

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 12, 2023

Image Credit: Abe Camacho on unsplash.com This article introduces a new NPQ series, Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. All too often, development seems to be designed solely for a new crop of incoming residents. Meanwhile, the longtime residents who were the “early investors” are cut out.

Culture 98

Culture Construction Community Development Education 98

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2023

The community is incubating cooperative enterprises based on leveraging the untapped skills of residents, rooted in members’ art and creativity. Artists are essential to any vision that calls the future into question.

Philanthropy 110

Philanthropy Culture Agriculture Community Development 110

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

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. Eviction is a common occurrence in San Francisco due to rising rents and frequent real estate ownership changes.

Culture 97

Culture Cultural Diversity Public and Nonprofit Management Community Development 97

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Construction, by contrast, took only two years. Maintaining community support between 2014 and 2022 was not easy. Yakini notes that co-op advocates operated “against a backdrop of a certain degree of community skepticism. This challenge is a good part of why securing funding takes so much time.

Food 134

Food Nonprofit governance and management Finance Governance 134

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 27, 2023

billion towards expanding, modernizing, and securing the rural electric grid though the Electric Infrastructure Loan Program , which gives insured loans and loan guarantees to electric cooperatives and other nonprofits for the construction of renewable-energy projects. Earlier this year, the USDA announced that it would put $2.7

Energy 111

Energy Children Construction Insurance 111

The NonProfit Times

MAY 3, 2024

Eliminating earmarks allowed under the program could jeopardize charitable programs related to early learning and childcare, youth sports and recreation, community health services, affordable housing, and other critical services affecting underserved and vulnerable populations including survivors of domestic violence, according to the letter.

Construction 64

Construction Education Education Nonprofits 64

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.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofits 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 118

Finance Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Education 118

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 4, 2023

Some of the measures taken include the construction of embankments to contain or control the flow of water, and the use of geobags, which are filled with soil and sand to form a barrier against waves and currents in erosion-prone areas.

Agriculture 105

Agriculture Public and Social Policy Governance Construction 105

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

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. That was part of the problem.

Community Development 134

Community Development Public and Social Policy Governance Production 134

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2023

That’s when we’re doing new construction. You still need to put together all the construction financing with a developer like we don’t ourselves develop as CLTs, typically, but we’ll partner with the developer so that all the constraints of low-cost housing, affordable housing development, are the same for a CLT.

Public and Social Policy 105

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Food Nonprofit governance and management 105

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. In New York, the public banking movement has taken root.

Finance 136

Finance Law Poverty Governance 136

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.

Community Development 130

Community Development Finance Production Governance 130

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 12, 2025

Unfortunately, far too often, elitesour local oligarchs, if you willuse fancy tools of municipal finance like tax increment financing to expense development costs onto taxpayers, even as they profit. The research compiled by DPP and its allies was folded into community meetings and candidate forums for the 2021 municipal elections.

Public and Social Policy 65

Public and Social Policy Finance Community Development Construction 65

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 16, 2024

You said: “I don’t need to know historic preservation; I need to know how to hire architects and construction teams. I know how to impart vision, build a team, and build community. SD: At NPQ , we have long been interested in governance—how community groups make democratic decisions—and management, how you implement them.

Governance 134

Governance Culture Construction Community Development 134

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Assuming positive traits and emotions like joy, love, intimacy, and hope provide an opportunity to build constructive thoughts and ideas about the future. Like Nussbaum’s framework for healthy context, researchers have developed comprehensive approaches applicable to individuals.

Philanthropy 138

Philanthropy Homelessness Psychology Health 138

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

MAY 24, 2023

It was a smaller autonomous school called the School of Social Justice and Community Development. Ultimately, this self-questioning convinced Akuno that changing ownership of the economy was critical to liberation; that there had to be a pivot in strategy toward cooperatives and toward the construction of a solidarity economy.

Education 141

Education Education Governance Food 141

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2023

In response, our two groups—the Latino Support Network , a local community development corporation, and Grassroots Finance Action , a consortium of savings group experts—decided to test whether, with a small financial investment, the reach of these savings circles could be extended to immigrants in Lynn more broadly.

Finance 111

Finance Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management Construction 111

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2024

Nowhere is this more evident than in the construction and decimation of the social safety net. The myth of American meritocracy is not merely an occasional story; it is upheld daily by social systems, structures, and cultural narratives about who works hard and who is lazy. These racist stories then shape our policies for years and years.

Public and Social Policy 122

Public and Social Policy Poverty Children Law 122

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

And then, over the course of the next couple of years, I was able to move out of the policy creation side into policy implementation and worked on creating a new small autonomous school called the School of Social Justice and Community Development. From New Orleans, I learned how to go about constructing a community land trust.

Public and Social Policy 139

Public and Social Policy Education Education Recruitment 139

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 26, 2023

11 Under the cover of “educational purposes,” research that has the potential to generate millions in patent revenues—let alone the revenues from construction or health services—benefits from the reduced overhead of sitting on property-tax-exempt campus land. The development buzzards currently circling include Wexford.)

Education 98

Education Education Universities Public and Nonprofit Management 98

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

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. 41 Mutualism harnesses the human tendency to collaborate, share, and construct institutions that last.

Public and Social Policy 94

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 94

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 6, 2024

What becomes critical here is to capture these rental units for public use by implementing tenant and community right of first refusal options and prioritizing access for nonprofits (such as community development corporations ). Construction of new rental social housing will be more challenging.

Public and Social Policy 131

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 131