NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Founded in 2008 with backing from the Ford Foundation, NeighborWorks America, New Hampshire Community Loan Fund, Capital Impact Partners, and Prosperity Now, ROC USA and its affiliates have assisted 22,000 residents in over 300 communities in 21 states to collectively purchase and manage their ROCs.

Manufacturing 107

Manufacturing Finance Nonprofit governance and management Law 107

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. We’re so concerned…with saving the property in the first place that we often forget we need long-term support for building management and sustainability.”

Finance 101

Finance Construction Management Education 101

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 29, 2023

Showing Up In the United States, the public murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in 2020 sparked a national moment of reckoning with institutional racism, income inequality, and related failures inherent in US social and economic systems.

Nonprofit governance and management 118

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Community Development 118

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 120

Marketing Marketing Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management 120

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. Increasingly, worker co-ops are making public policy gains.

Public and Social Policy 100

Public and Social Policy Public Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Culture 100

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.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 96

Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management Finance Public and Nonprofit Management 96

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 109

Nonprofit Administration and Development Entrepreneurship Finance Agriculture 109

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 108

Entrepreneurship Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations 108

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 10, 2023

The conference brings together hundreds of community activists, government officials, and bank community development officers. It’s an odd mix, but one that NCRC has managed for the past 33 years. This year’s event was easily the group’s largest since before the COVID-19 pandemic. billion, which works out to only 4.9

Finance 103

Finance Law Governance Entrepreneurship 103

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 97

Finance Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management Construction 97

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Image credit: Christian Ouellet on istock.com Financing challenges often stymie nonprofits. This reality became starkly evident in the journey of the Center for Habitat Reconstruction (CRH) seeking supplemental funding to keep a large public contract it had won. Yet even after having been awarded an $11.2

Non-Profits 97

Non-Profits Finance Collaborations Public and Nonprofit Management 97

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 15, 2025

billion) in assets under management and a 30-year track record, isnt wrong per se. That is the central conclusion of a new report released last December by Boston Impact Initiative , a nonprofit place-based investor in the Boston area and a promoter of the field nationwide. Each fund is unique.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Image credit: Brandon on Unsplash The murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police three and a half years ago ignited a months-long period of mass social mobilization and intense public engagement. After all, financial institutions that understand their clients’ backgrounds can more effectively respond to their needs.

Finance 77

Finance Culture Foundations Public and Social Policy 77

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The US Water Alliance —a national nonprofit that aligns various stakeholders to solve this current water crisis—is tackling this issue head on. Understanding who is having their water shut off and how this impacts a utility’s finances is necessary to create equitable, informed policy. “In Insights on Water Shutoffs and Access.

Public and Social Policy 117

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Collaborations Universities 117

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Image credit: AndreyPopov on istock.com How can frontline communities access public funding for climate solutions? The same elements [needed for] BIPOC communities to benefit from public funding are also the most promising approaches to address…climate change. The answers are, well, complex.

Governance 73

Governance Community Development Environmental Collaborations 73

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

The complex is modest, but it houses an estimated 27 primarily immigrant-led small businesses and nonprofits. What makes the strip mall unique is its community ownership. Each community also has its own specific reasons for seeking community ownership. Paul, New Orleans, Anchorage, and Los Angeles.

Public and Nonprofit Management 91

Public and Nonprofit Management Participation and motivation Nonprofit governance and management Poverty 91

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 84

Philanthropy Culture Agriculture Community Development 84

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

They want the freedom to move how they want to move, to manage schedules how they want to manage them, and to show up for the life they want, not some version of life imagined by a society that excludes and negates their contributions and even their humanity. Cooperatives are companies owned by the people they use their services. [ii]

Insurance 120

Insurance Universities Finance Foundations 120

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 116

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 116

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Social housing is housing that is publicly owned or under democratic community control—permanently affordable, and off-limits to profiteers. It encompasses co-op, community land trust (CLT), mutual , and public housing, and can include a host of new and existing publicly supported models. What is Social Housing? As of 2023, 65.7

Public and Social Policy 113

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 113

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 26, 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.” At the height of the pandemic, I was swept up in a titanic battle being waged over the right to a city. 1 That city was New Haven, Connecticut.

Education 76

Education Education Universities Public and Nonprofit Management 76

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In the nonprofit sector, it requires transcending the standard hierarchical funder-nonprofit dynamics and replacing them with norms of power sharing and reciprocity. Unlike many funding opportunities, qualifying projects did not need to have nonprofit tax status or be fiscally sponsored by a nonprofit.

Nonprofit governance and management 99

Nonprofit governance and management Food Public and Nonprofit Management Environmental 99

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.”

Nonprofit Administration and Development 77

Nonprofit Administration and Development Universities Philanthropy Education 77

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 88

Finance Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Education 88

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 12, 2023

This question was front of mind when, in February 2020, right before the COVID lockdown began, the Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative , co-hosted an “innovation encuentro.” Notably absent is a focus on public K-12 education, which educates nearly 50 million Americans a year. Ditto for coding and software development.

Curriculum and Teaching 96

Curriculum and Teaching Education Education Public and Nonprofit Management 96

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 67

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 67

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 83

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Food Nonprofit governance and management 83

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. Between 2014 and 2022 alone, assets under management in the CDFI sector expanded more than sevenfold. billion in assets by 2022.

Community Development 94

Community Development Finance Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofit Administration and Development 94

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Underfunded public housing was segregated away from desirable suburban land, where prospective, mostly White homeowners were lifted into the middle class through property ownership. Resident associations, tenant unions, and surrounding communities play key roles in managing it and, in some cases, developing it.

Public and Social Policy 125

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development 125

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

Image Credit: cottonbro studio on pexels.com It’s not often that a body of work comes along that makes us ask big questions about the nonprofit sector. Claire Dunning’s new book, Nonprofit Neighborhoods , is one. In it, she not only traces the development of the nonprofit sector.

Public and Social Policy 110

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Governance 110

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

Public policy wasn’t really a part of our culture. Why Prioritize Public Policy and Advocacy? 6 Engaging in public policy advocacy is not without its dangers. Public policy and advocacy work, for most movement organizations, can feel like a luxury. Until it was.

Public Policy 67

Public Policy Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 67