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. Again, the pandemic provides an illustrative example.

Values 130

Values Poverty Nonprofit Administration and Development Finance 130

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 17, 2024

Not only are we talking about public education awareness so that tenants know what their rights are, but we also need legal support so that they can navigate the real estate transaction. The third piece is financing. To know how much time tenants have, to organize, to make an offer, to get funding, all of that.

Finance 128

Finance Construction Management Education 128

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 7, 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 119

Poverty Community Development Construction Finance 119

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

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 21, 2023

the community development financial institution where I work, lends to families and businesses throughout the state of Maine. A childcare business incubator needs to combine small business start-up education with specific childcare business management and coaching. Coastal Enterprises, Inc.,

Curriculum and Teaching 105

Curriculum and Teaching Finance Children Recruitment 105

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 25, 2023

A salient example is of organizations that are focused on community development but invest in mass incarceration. For example, when GirlVentures , an outdoor girl and gender non-conforming education adventure program, moved to Oakland, CA, they looked for a local bank with social responsibility as part of its mission.

Public and Social Policy 126

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Non-Profits 126

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 9, 2024

That vision is reflected in what is known today as the Detroit Food Commons , a two-story, 34,000-square foot building that holds a 15,000-square-foot food co-op, offices for DBCFSN, a banquet hall for community events, and four commercial kitchens that local food business owners can rent. We did a lot of community engagement sessions.”

Food 134

Food Nonprofit governance and management Finance Governance 134

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

JUNE 13, 2023

They provide social services, healthcare screening, workforce development, and education.” They provide social services, healthcare screening, workforce development, and education. Rhea Williams-Bishop of the Kellogg Foundation focused on disparities in education. are often the only game in town.

Finance 105

Finance Homelessness Healthcare Foundations 105

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

OCTOBER 23, 2024

At the conference, organized by USFWC and its affiliated Democracy at Work Institute (DAWI)—a worker co-op education and research nonprofit founded by USFWC 11 years ago —worker co-op members and supporters reflected on movement growth to date and considered what steps to take next.

Public and Social Policy 128

Public and Social Policy Public Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Culture 128

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

For years, I have directed IFF , a community development financial institution that specializes in nonprofit facilities lending. A Hierarchy of Nonprofit Facilities’ Needs After 30 years in community development, I have come to think of nonprofit facilities as existing on a continuum of need.

Values 122

Values Community Development Psychology Healthcare 122

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 22, 2023

Despite challenges, including financing, the Alligator Head Foundation is spearheading mangrove education programs, restoring the livelihoods of fishers, and hoping for greater support from the recent launch of the Mangrove Breakthrough —a global call to action launched at last year’s COP27 aimed at protecting and restoring mangroves at scale.

Education 111

Education Education Foundations Environmental 111

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 10, 2023

The conference brings together hundreds of community activists, government officials, and bank community development officers. That is how Rohit Chopra , who directs the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau , described federal administration of the Paycheck Protection Program in his conference address.

Finance 116

Finance Law Governance Entrepreneurship 116

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

These inequities have had multigenerational impacts on the health, economic opportunity, education, and culture of millions of people. These include using philanthropic and impact investment dollars to increase access to banks and wraparound services, and build access to credit and financing.

Finance 80

Finance Culture Foundations Public and Social Policy 80

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2023

These include supporting below-market loan financing, helping artists acquire affordable studio space and housing assistance, and assisting artists to form worker and producer cooperatives that can help them to achieve dignity at work and economic security. Artists are essential to any vision that calls the future into question.

Philanthropy 111

Philanthropy Culture Agriculture Community Development 111

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. Among the coalition participants is the organization I work for, the Latino Economic Development Corporation. The 2018 effort fell short, but that was only the first attempt.

Construction 98

Construction Community Development Governance Environmental 98

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. These are home values, rent prices, median household income, percentage of residents who are college educated, and percentage of residents who are White.

Culture 98

Culture Construction Community Development Education 98

The Charity CFO

DECEMBER 23, 2024

As you increase the number of people your programs serve, you show stakeholders, donors, and community members the benefits of your organization. This metric also helps you see the reach and scale of your programs and services within your community. You can use this data to help guide improvements to future projects.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 52

Nonprofit Administration and Development Retention Nonprofits Health 52

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 11, 2023

Regardless of their original vision, ACCEL founders—like many who seek venture capital financing—changed their ideas (or pivoted) so that their ventures could reach a national, if not global, market in three to five years, following a typical venture capital timeframe.

Entrepreneurship 130

Entrepreneurship Collaborations Food Finance 130

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A young nonprofit, LACE is also learning to navigate private philanthropy, public funding, and public/private financing, as well as governance and operational matters. The addition of more classes in the multi-stakeholder framework reflects lessons learned over seven years of self-education, activism, and fundraising. Notes See also L.

Food 111

Food Construction Public and Social Policy Governance 111

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

To participate, community members can purchase an ownership share in the enterprise, contingent on completing an eight-hour financial education course. Instead, earnings are generated by the trust itself. CORE partners currently manage five buildings with approximately 20 BIPOC business and nonprofit tenants.

Public and Nonprofit Management 105

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

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? Developing Community Leadership Entrepreneurs play a critical role as community builders.

Participation and motivation 52

Participation and motivation Nonprofit governance and management Community Development Leadership 52

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The organization where I work, Legacy Institute for Financial Education (LIFE), is based in Angelina County, Texas, the most populous county in the nearly 10,000-square-mile Deep East Texas region, located north and east of Houston and west of Louisiana. As of 2019, an estimated 15.4 percent of urban and suburban residents.

Poverty 105

Poverty Children Culture Food 105

Lets Talk Nonprofit

APRIL 4, 2017

Programs like 21st Century Community Learning Centers, those funded by Community Development Block Grants, and many more. I also work with groups like community health centers, which should continue to be supported under the proposed budget. Do you know where things stand with your nonprofit's finances?

Fundraising 52

Fundraising Fundraising Nonprofit Finance Finance 52

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 22, 2025

Image Credit: Brian Koellish on iStock Nearly a third of US communities are CDFI deserts. In these turbulent times, many leaders of the nations growing network of community development financial institutions (CDFIs)which now collectively manage $468 billion in assets, a 615 percent increase over the past decadehave high hopes.

Finance 105

Finance Nonprofit Administration and Development Poverty Public and Nonprofit Management 105

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Typically, a one-megawatt solar array can power at least 400 homes for a year at a cost of about $4 million—making this cost-prohibitive to most community developers. What are some practical strategies for building local capacity and breaking a colonial mindset around community energy production?

Energy 132

Energy Environmental Community Development Public Policy 132

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. What Is Tax Increment Financing? Community organizing, it turns out, paid off.

Public and Social Policy 68

Public and Social Policy Finance Community Development Construction 68

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Her situation led me to ask myself: How could the educational nonprofit that I lead effectively intervene in cases like hers? C ompassionate lending combines a CDFI with an on-the-ground community or faith-based partner. My younger sister had taken on several payday loans with staggering interest rates in excess of 300 percent.

Education 107

Education Education Community Development Homelessness 107

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Fast forward to my family’s move to Portugal, where my mother was born, then to the United States, where, in 1998, I found a job with the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) as an education and outreach coordinator. Others focus on behavioral health, disease prevention, and education. Preliminary Signs of Success.

Health 124

Health Race and Ethnicity Food Children 124

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Given this recent investment in outreach and education efforts, coupled with heightened interest from local governments, we expect to see many more employee-owned businesses statewide in the next five years. For example, to secure loans to finance employee-ownership conversions, personal loan guarantees are often required.

Public and Social Policy 122

Public and Social Policy Finance Governance Culture 122

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 26, 2023

2020 found New Haven residents, organized by the coalition New Haven Rising, storming the city’s March 30th Zoom budget meeting to express their disgust at Yale University’s continued strain on the city’s finances. We have largely presumed that higher education is an inherent public good, most clearly marked by its tax-exempt status.

Education 98

Education Education Universities Public and Nonprofit Management 98

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Some of our allies were: Deborah Taylor, a member of Southside Together Organizing for Power (STOP) and a leader with the Lake Park East Tenants Association Karen Lewis, then president of the Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators (CORE ), soon to become the president of the Chicago Teachers Union Willie J.R. Whew,” is all that I can say.

Public and Social Policy 121

Public and Social Policy Construction Law Community Development 121

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 17, 2024

If you had asked me 20 years ago about public finance, I doubt I could have told you what a public bank was. How Finance Currently Reproduces the Racial Wealth Gap The racial wealth gap is as entrenched as ever—a chasm of earnings power, savings, and investment that threatens to leave behind another generation of Black and Latinx households.

Public and Social Policy 135

Public and Social Policy Finance Governance Disaster Relief 135

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 8, 2023

Historically, Pruitt noted that education and religion were the most common categories, with education receiving by far the largest share of DAF dollars. In 2020, 16 percent of all DAF grants were made in this category, and voting-rights groups and others, such as the American Civil Liberties Union, benefitted from this shift.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 98

Nonprofit Administration and Development Universities Philanthropy Public and Nonprofit Management 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. Yet too often they have been thwarted by racial capitalism and its enabling institutions—such as legal frameworks, regulatory environments, finance protocols, norms, and beliefs.

Finance 121

Finance Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Education 121