NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 9, 2024

To find out, NPQ interviewed Malik Kenyatta Yakini, cofounder of the Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network (DBCFSN); Lanay Gilbert-Williams, current co-op board president; and Akil Talley, the co-op’s first full-time permanent general manager. Construction, by contrast, took only two years.

Food 134

Food Nonprofit governance and management Finance Governance 134

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

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. The strongest co-ops offered or required trainings and courses in cooperative economics and management.

Finance 120

Finance Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Education 120

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

JUNE 27, 2023

00:03:13] In this community ownership discussion, you’ll hear from three expert panelists I’m pleased to be joined with by Mindy Barbakoff, she’s the director of Child Space too, which is one of two child care sites of the Philadelphia-based child space daycare centers worker cooperative. That’s when we’re doing new construction.

Public and Social Policy 105

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

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 66

Public and Social Policy Finance Community Development Construction 66

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 135

Governance Culture Construction Community Development 135

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 16, 2023

He left his senior management position in Austria and purchased desert land North of Cairo where he and his family relocated. Assuming positive traits and emotions like joy, love, intimacy, and hope provide an opportunity to build constructive thoughts and ideas about the future.

Philanthropy 139

Philanthropy Homelessness Psychology Health 139

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

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

JULY 19, 2023

We know there’s a deep hunger in movements for an economy that people collectively own and democratically manage. 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.

Public and Social Policy 96

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 96

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

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 ). Additionally, it will train developers, property managers, and other owners on co-governance models.

Public and Social Policy 131

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