NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The report, Connect to Build: Frontline Organization and Federal Infrastructure Funding Opportunities , profiled community groups in many parts of the country, including Memphis, Atlanta, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Learning from Community Groups So, what are we learning?

Governance 93

Governance Community Development Environmental Collaborations 93

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. Construction began in 2017.

Construction 98

Construction Community Development Governance Environmental 98

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Local government wins because properties are back in productive use, generating taxes. The community wins because there is now permanently affordable housing that can forestall gentrification. While these objectives differ, there is a clear overlap of priorities and opportunities to advance shared equitable community development goals.

Public and Social Policy 113

Public and Social Policy Governance Community Development Agriculture 113

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 15, 2023

By Tiffany Manuel & Dana Bourland What if government, the philanthropic sector, and community advocates could pull a policy lever and advance housing, climate, and racial justice all at once? Why are appraisals of homes in majority Black and brown communities almost always lower than those in majority white communities?

Public and Social Policy 110

Public and Social Policy Environmental Finance Governance 110

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 15, 2025

generate social or environmental returnor doing wellthat is: make a financial return. There are indeed many investments where social or environmental goals dont harm earnings (and, arguably, even improve earnings). As one firm states , investors do not have to choose between doing goodi.e.

Public and Social Policy 101

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Public Policy 101

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 4, 2023

In the US, the federal government is already compensating Indigenous tribes to relocate. The local government claims that clay extraction pits dug by the kumars have stripped the riverbanks of its sturdy top layer of soil, leaving them more susceptible to the erosion caused by climate change.

Agriculture 103

Agriculture Public and Social Policy Governance Construction 103

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 18, 2023

Rural communities, already with access to fewer resources , are experiencing increased climate disasters like tornadoes, hurricanes, wildfires, and floods. Of that total, the United States Environmental Protection Agency found that a minuscule 0.73 million) was specifically directed to rural communities. percent ($9.7

Philanthropy 103

Philanthropy Poverty Environmental Governance 103

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

Additionally, Duranti-Martinez points out, “Community ownership also means that the people most impacted by racial, economic, and environmental injustice have meaningful decision-making power over development” (7). Annual commercial rent increases can range from seven to 26 percent across the country” (5).

Public and Nonprofit Management 104

Public and Nonprofit Management Participation and motivation Nonprofit governance and management Poverty 104

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 127

Energy Environmental Community Development Public Policy 127

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Every day, after educating them about the dangers of lead poisoning, I sent families back to homes full of lead paint, because at the time, our public health response did not include necessary environmental changes, like home repairs. One HEZ lead is a community health center with multiple sites.

Health 123

Health Race and Ethnicity Food Children 123

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 30, 2024

There is widespread apprehension about the accumulation of complex societal and environmental issues. Philanthropic and development organizations too often find themselves falling behind in a relentless and exhausting race to catch up. I4HC is community development that is grounded in an explicit development focus on healthy context.

Health 98

Health Public and Social Policy Medical Governance 98

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Policymakers and advocates say: Government must expedite the redevelopment of underutilized church property for affordable housing. Churches should partner with developers and repurpose these properties. Data analysts say: Accelerating church closures are evidence that US Christianity is dying.

Community Development 128

Community Development Finance Production Governance 128

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 17, 2024

Public banks, owned by state and local governments, are driven by a community-serving mission, Currently, financial systems favor White-owned firms and disfavor firms that are owned by people of color, limiting the wealth-building opportunities available to them. Another example is the Illinois Climate Bank.

Public and Social Policy 135

Public and Social Policy Finance Governance Disaster Relief 135

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 4, 2023

To transform our economy, we need to network, learn, ideate, iterate, and resource the work together as nonprofits, for-profits, community leaders and members, philanthropic institutions, governments, donors, and investors. Our organizations have started to map and build these networks in the Seattle area and Washington state.

Nonprofit governance and management 120

Nonprofit governance and management Food Public and Nonprofit Management Environmental 120

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Fortunately, community land trust (CLT) homeownership appears more successful than most government programs for first-time, low-income homebuyers—both due to demonstrated increased housing stability for residents and a participatory board model that includes both resident and nonresident community representation.

Public and Social Policy 129

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 129

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Nelson Colón of the Puerto Rico Community Foundation, and Clara Miller, president emerita of the Heron Foundation—come from philanthropy. What would it take to fully fund the human capital, governance, and advocacy costs of nonprofits? The drug epidemic has devastated our most poverty-stricken communities. If not, why not?

Public and Social Policy 131

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

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 14, 2024

Among their recommendations: Commit capital early Support fund managers of color in an industry where people of color are vastly underrepresented , with a 2024 Harvard Study finding that White males oversee an astonishing 98.6 percent of total assets under management.

Finance 107

Finance Non-Profits Nonprofit governance and management Management 107

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

We know it’s a story of extraction, [of] government reliance on the nonprofit world, but that felt like a whole lot bigger than TBF. And there’s a way that that language gets co-opted as anti-government. It’s structurally incentivized—foundations and government funders are keeping this inadequate system churning.

Public and Social Policy 104

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance Public and Nonprofit Management 104

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2024

In 1935, the Social Security Act, introduced by the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, established an idea that expressed the value that (some) Americans deserve a government that will not allow them to slide into poverty if they fall on hard times, become ill, and/or age out of the workforce.

Public and Social Policy 117

Public and Social Policy Poverty Children Law 117

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

First, democratic funds like Seed Commons, 4 Ujima Fund, 5 and the Just Transition Integrated Capital Fund gave us a new model for how communities could steward and govern capital together. These new laws channeled philanthropic assets into municipal bonds and community development loan funds, which stabilized local municipalities.

Public and Social Policy 128

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Taxation 128

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2023

The first Community Land Trust was and is in southwest Georgia, Albany, Georgia, founded in 1969 called New Communities Inc. But that was a group of African American families who came together to own, co-govern, control land resources and have an agricultural cooperative and really come together to self-determine.

Public and Social Policy 102

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Food Nonprofit governance and management 102

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Most government housing funding is spent on subsidizing mortgages—primarily for the well-to-do. Civil rights, queer rights, Indigenous sovereignty, environmental justice, and organized labor movements have all long demanded secure, permanently affordable, and decommodified housing.

Public and Social Policy 142

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development 142