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. The opportunity facing religious congregations is both practical and prophetic.

Community Development 129

Community Development Finance Production Governance 129

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 129

Values Poverty Nonprofit Administration and Development Finance 129

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

MAY 23, 2024

Unfortunately for the nonprofit sector, higher overhead costs are correlated to an organization being irresponsible with its finances, ineffective, unable to carry out its mission, and even unethical. For many organizations, capacity building would fall into the “overhead” category. What can I do?

Public and Social Policy 232

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 232

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

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 121

Food Finance Community Development Culture 121

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 24, 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 115

Poverty Agriculture Community Development Culture 115

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

For years, I have directed IFF , a community development financial institution that specializes in nonprofit facilities lending. For example, I recall asking a health clinic with which we worked, “How big should the waiting room be?” Quality nonprofit facilities are community development.

Values 121

Values Community Development Psychology Healthcare 121

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In the 1930s and ’40s, banks and federal government officials redlined Summit Lake—a neighborhood named for its beautiful glacial lake—making it virtually impossible for anyone to qualify for a mortgage in the neighborhood or for any property owner, commercial or otherwise, to qualify for financing to make improvements.

Public and Social Policy 141

Public and Social Policy Construction Community Development Governance 141

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

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

The vehicle for the development of nonprofit infrastructure was government grants, beginning with President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty, which “expanded individual benefits related to health, education, and welfare and doubled down on the idea of working with nonprofit organizations.”

Public and Social Policy 124

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Governance 124

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

The solar developer builds clean-energy projects that help communities acquire long-term wealth and energy assets through impact investing, technical support, and project financing. This model will allow UPROSE to earn revenue that can be directed to a community fund to help vulnerable individuals and families in Sunset Park.

Energy 132

Energy Environmental Finance Governance 132

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 21, 2023

The need to develop more childcare businesses is obvious, but how to build and sustain viable childcare businesses is not. the community development financial institution where I work, lends to families and businesses throughout the state of Maine. All are coached through the licensing process and learn how to secure financing.

Curriculum and Teaching 105

Curriculum and Teaching Finance Children Recruitment 105

The Charity CFO

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Nonprofit organizations can use financial KPIs to get a better picture of their organizations financial health and create strategies to maximize financial efficiency. Its a good indicator of liquidity and financial health. Nonprofits need a way to track financial data that helps them increase revenue and lower expenses.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 52

Nonprofit Administration and Development Retention Nonprofits Health 52

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

To that end, the Nonprofit Finance Fund conducted its ninth national State of the Nonprofit Sector Survey in the first quarter of 2022 to ask nonprofits about how they were faring and their resource needs during this once-in-a-generation moment. If we want nonprofits to support us in the next crisis, they must have sufficient resources.

Governance 110

Governance Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit Administration and Development Finance 110

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Connie Binkowitz, director of development and external policy at CTC, described how, in 2020, the organization received a grant from the Memphis Division of Housing and Community Development (DHCD). This grant came out of a program supported by federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) dollars.

Governance 106

Governance Community Development Environmental Collaborations 106

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Understanding who is having their water shut off and how this impacts a utility’s finances is necessary to create equitable, informed policy. “In The report concludes with guiding principles on how utilities can develop better informed affordability policies and prevent shutoffs.

Public and Social Policy 140

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Collaborations Universities 140

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

While these objectives differ, there is a clear overlap of priorities and opportunities to advance shared equitable community development goals. Different yet complementary objectives : Land banks focus on addressing large inventories of vacant and abandoned properties, while CLTs focus on creating and preserving affordability.

Public and Social Policy 115

Public and Social Policy Community Development Governance Agriculture 115

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In a room with only members from BIPOC communities present, and after grounding ourselves in somatic practice, we felt safe to share our experiences of living within a system built to extract our labor and resources at the expense of our lives, health, and wellbeing. Many people and organizations grapple with this problem.

Nonprofit governance and management 124

Nonprofit governance and management Food Public and Nonprofit Management Environmental 124

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 120

Finance Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Education 120

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 79

Finance Culture Foundations Public and Social Policy 79

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 15, 2023

One of the most important seemed to be advocating for state housing finance agencies to include the Green Communities Criteria, a set of green building standards released by Enterprise Community Partners’ Green Communities Initiative in 2005, as the standard for all affordable housing financed through its federal funding.

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Environmental Finance Governance 111

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Universities, as Baldwin has detailed , turn their research into lucrative commercial goods and patents in a range of fields, from the pharmaceutical industries and software products to health services and military defense weaponry. The culture and structure of a large university often clashes with the culture of the surrounding community.

Universities 118

Universities Curriculum and Teaching Participation and motivation Culture 118

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. Health inequities, crime levels, and immigration are all intrinsically linked to financial inequities, as are the failings of our criminal justice system.

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 132

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

It does not surprise, then, that Black neighborhoods face health disparities relative to their white neighbors, with marked differences in rates of infant mortality, asthma, gun violence, and life expectancy. Food co-ops must collaborate with those addressing systemic racism, health equity, and economic justice. Notes See also L.

Food 110

Food Construction Public and Social Policy Governance 110

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 16, 2024

SD: At NPQ , we have long been interested in governance—how community groups make democratic decisions—and management, how you implement them. Could you talk more about what it means to approach community development as a producer and how that might lead you to approach the work differently? Governance is not my expertise.

Governance 135

Governance Culture Construction Community Development 135

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

Our Financial Opportunity Center , which delivers services using a model developed and supported by the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) , is a key tool with which to address the symptoms of financial trauma. Humans are complicated. No framework can explain every situation. CDFIs across the nation offer similar financial services.

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

JULY 19, 2023

Movements were not always organized this way, and this shift of movements from the self-financing movements of the past (such as labor unions in the 1930s) to the grant-dependent movement organizations of the present creates significant challenges for achieving transformative change.

Public and Social Policy 97

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 97

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. And the city’s residents were starting to push back.

Education 98

Education Education Universities Public and Nonprofit Management 98

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

JUNE 27, 2023

We walked with the community and built the Gem City market with a full service grocery store, with a teaching kitchen, community room and a health clinic. And through that process, we started developing, I guess, the back end, which is Co-op Dayton, which is basically we’re building a cooperative economy, right?

Public and Social Policy 105

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

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

When they first trained me to be a home health aide, and I was nervous about the tests, they built up my confidence and had tutoring if I needed help. They taught me about managing my finances and helped me find daycare. They gave me options that I thought I would never have as a single Black woman. Kellie Moss et al., “The

Public Policy 97

Public Policy Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 97

MNA Association

OCTOBER 16, 2024

As the parents to four young children, it’s been important to us to improve pediatric health care and neonatal intensive care so every newborn baby in our state has the best chance at a healthy life. In 2020, Carmen and I were privileged to contribute $4 million to help bring the upgraded neonatal intensive care unit to Bozeman Health.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofits 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Enter community development financial institutions (CDFIs). Relying on these common expectations of rural failure, fellow leaders in finance told PeopleFund they would “get burned” with setting up an office in rural East Texas. Popular rural narratives drive out, rather than drive in, interest and investment.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 111

Nonprofit Administration and Development Entrepreneurship Finance Agriculture 111

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

The NonProfit Times

MAY 1, 2024

Lawmakers of both parties seeking earmarks for nonprofits in their districts turned to the T-HUD funding program this year after earmarks were banned from House funding proposals for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services (HHS), and Education last year.

Education 59

Education Education Community Development Governance 59