NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Image credit: Drew Beamer on Unsplash For community development financial institutions (CDFIs), these are extraordinary times. At this year’s sector conference, organized by the Opportunity Finance Network (OFN), a sellout crowd of over 2,200 people participated and considered where CDFIs needed to go and what they needed to do.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The nonprofit sector, along with community-based mutual aid networks , stepped up to meet immediate needs. If we want nonprofits to support us in the next crisis, they must have sufficient resources. And to know what nonprofits need to do their jobs effectively, we must ask them directly. It wasn’t for-profit companies.

Governance 110

Governance Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit Administration and Development Finance 110

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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Image credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” W hat would a nonprofit sector that pursued economic justice look like? The other five work for nonprofit intermediary organizations. Two of them—Dr.

Public and Social Policy 132

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2023

How can nonprofits help immigrants build community wealth? Nonprofit and public sector programs to promote savings are common. One of the more common forms is the matched savings account, often referred to as the individual development account, or IDA. Lessons for Other Communities?

Finance 110

Finance Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management Construction 110

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Some leading emerging strategies that we found from across the nation include the following: Leveraging philanthropy to ensure community control of public dollars In Memphis, TN, the Center for Transforming Communities (CTC) cultivates “neighborhood democracies” through place-based organizing.

Governance 103

Governance Community Development Environmental Collaborations 103

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 10, 2023

The conference brings together hundreds of community activists, government officials, and bank community development officers. To assess risk, the newly formed Federal Housing Administration hired the University of Michigan’s Ernest Fisher and Prudential’s Frederick Babcock.

Finance 115

Finance Law Governance Entrepreneurship 115

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Image credit: Ahmad Odeh on Unsplash In this interview, the CEO of a California-based CDFI offers her observations on what her work as a theater director has taught her about nonprofit management. Sara Razavi: Within the CDFI [ community development financial institution ] space, we are a nonprofit loan fund.

Nonprofit Management 124

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 16, 2024

The interview that follows explores the history of the Clayborn Temple, the project to restore it, and the vision of Troutman and her colleagues to use the temple as a hub for developing a community-based economy in Memphis that i s Black-owned, Black-governed, and which sustains a thriving culture rooted in the Black imagination.

Governance 134

Governance Culture Construction Community Development 134

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

Image Credit: Sivani Bandaru on unsplash.com The common headline in the nonprofit press has been simple: Giving declined in 2022 for only the fourth time in 40 years. Nonprofit reliance on wealthy donors has other, perhaps less obvious implications. For further details, see this recent NPQ article ). The short answer is: “Unlikely.”

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Nonprofit Administration and Development Universities Philanthropy Education 98

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

“RULER OF THE EARTH” BY YUET-LAM TSANG Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” How do social movements come to make the language of economic systems change their own? Nonprofits often play quasi-governmental roles.

Public and Social Policy 95

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 95

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Posters at the conference highlighted that the first OFN conference in 1985 attracted 21 community development loan funds with a combined $27 million in assets under management. By contrast, according to the US SIF (Sustainable Investment Forum), the CDFI industry (including community development banks and credit unions) had $457.9

Community Development 115

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NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2023

All Moderated by Steve Dubb of the Nonprofit Quarterly. Below you’ll find the graphic recording, audio, video, and transcript from “The Imaginal Cells of the Solidarity Economy: Community Ownership” presented by the U.S. Steve Dubb: [00:02:31] Welcome to Imagining Cells of the Solidarity Economy: Community Ownership.

Public and Social Policy 105

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NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

5 This history of successful community-building economic development positions pro-solidarity economy efforts, uniquely, to engage the state in ways that materially transfer resources to grassroots communities and build worker power—and with it, our own base of economic power. Every [opportunity] they threw at me, I took it.

Public Policy 95

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NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Social housing is not just about providing shelter but creating high-quality, permanently affordable housing across a range of incomes that are owned or controlled by a public agency, a nonprofit, or a cooperative of tenants themselves. There is also resistance within the affordable housing community.

Public and Social Policy 143

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 8, 2025

By empowering cities to establish community-owned, community-grown banks that focus on local needs above corporate profits, public banks offer a pathway to cut municipal costs, expand credit access, and drive sustainable growthall while challenging Wall Streets control of public dollars.

Finance 142

Finance Nonprofit Administration and Development Governance Energy 142

MNA Association

OCTOBER 16, 2024

We know that decisions made in Helena and in Washington, DC have an enormous impact on our work as nonprofits. We also know that partnering with government and the public sector is critical to advance our missions and build thriving communities. We are excited to share the responses with you in our Nonprofit Voter Guide.

Public and Social Policy 98

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The labor-intensive, extractive industries paradigm that has long powered rural economies—think agriculture, manufacturing, mining, timber—has fundamentally changed due to automation and globalization , and the search for new rural development models is coalescing around a new vision.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 111

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