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. Strong communities need strong nonprofits. Racial injustice persists in nonprofits .

Governance 111

Governance Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit Administration and Development Finance 111

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 25, 2023

A salient example is of organizations that are focused on community development but invest in mass incarceration. This impact investing handbook , developed by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, is one helpful guide. Other organizations integrate impact goals directly into their IPS.

Public and Social Policy 126

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 29, 2023

Corporations and institutional philanthropy began issuing passionate statements about “meeting the moment” and “showing up” in communities in ways that they hadn’t done before, making financial commitments that now total $340 billion. In its wake, momentum for change seemed to build.

Nonprofit governance and management 119

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Community Development 119

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. percent of the population.

Poverty 116

Poverty Agriculture Community Development Culture 116

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

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

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Even as the slow wheels of policy change grind away to address discrimination in the banking system through modernizing the Community Reinvestment Act (along with other initiatives ), allocators of philanthropic and impact investment capital can use tools they have at their disposal right now to change the field.

Finance 80

Finance Culture Foundations Public and Social Policy 80

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 106

Governance Community Development Environmental Collaborations 106

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The journey since then has been an adventure, offering important lessons for us that I believe are valuable for the community development field. Our project was catalyzed by Genesis LA, a Community Development Financial Institution that was willing to bet on our idea. Traditional views of “risk.”

Culture 128

Culture Community Development Collaborations Activism 128

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

As for initiatives underway in the Twin Cities and Los Angeles, both efforts are nascent, but both groups also appear to have developed a strong set of partners, making these efforts promising. Philanthropy can also assist by supporting field-building practices, such as peer-learning collaboratives, community organizing, and advocacy.

Public and Nonprofit Management 105

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

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. Finally, groups can approach community foundations or other key donor institutions to explore novel forms of philanthropy, such as land donation.

Food 111

Food Construction Public and Social Policy Governance 111

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Building a Broad Coalition Colorado has harnessed and engaged a broad coalition of support from the business community, professional service providers, policymakers, banking, philanthropy, and community organizers. Impact investment and non-bank financing from community development financial institutions also remain limited.

Public and Social Policy 122

Public and Social Policy Finance Governance Culture 122

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 8, 2023

One key takeaway message: the rise of the über-wealthy in US philanthropy continues. In 2020, however, while education remained in first place, there was a major increase in DAF grants being directed to “public sector benefit” organizations, a category that includes civil rights, voting rights, and community development finance.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 98

Nonprofit Administration and Development Universities Philanthropy Education 98

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. Economic Justice Is Accounting Justice by Clara Miller During my career in social sector finance, I coined a slogan: “Accounting is destiny.”

Public and Social Policy 132

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In philanthropy and investment-scarce rural regions, squeezing the potential impact out of every dollar is crucial, so catalytic partnerships, those capable of leveraging and securing new resources, become fundamental. Enter community development financial institutions (CDFIs).

Nonprofit Administration and Development 111

Nonprofit Administration and Development Entrepreneurship Finance Agriculture 111

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 96

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

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2023

And then a related question, although it’s not about child care at all, is where does the money come — this is from a different person, but where does the money come from to open a grocery store or do a community land trust? [00:32:07] Minnie, do you want to talk a little bit about financing community land trusts? But thanks.

Public and Social Policy 105

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

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

We should not be naive about the resources of the government, which, like foundation endowments, are fueled by wealth that comes from our communities in the first place. Dr. Gilmore locates our movements within the gargantuan field of philanthropy as a “shadow of the shadow state.” At times when I was struggling, they loaned me money.

Public Policy 96

Public Policy Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 96

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

We also work with peer philanthropies on policy, advocacy, and organizing to pool grants, co-invest capital, and collaborate on learning opportunities for funders and the field.

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Poverty Health 111

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

After the War on Poverty came Urban Renewal, Model Cities, the development of CDCs (Community Development Corporations) and LISC (Local Initiatives Support Corporation), an intermediary launched by the Ford Foundation to finance CDCs. How do social movements, nonprofits, and philanthropy align to realize this goal?

Public and Social Policy 124

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Governance 124