NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 14, 2023

While many foundations screen their endowment investments based on environmental, social, and governance factors, only a few optimize their investment strategies for mission impact. While common in some sectors like housing finance, these guarantees have typically been issued by public entities, not by philanthropy.

Community Development 109

Community Development Finance Energy Nonprofit governance and management 109

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 3, 2025

When enough mutualist networks and organizations are active, you may even wind up with an ecosysteman abundance of shared resources, experience, social capital, and financing, both centralized and grassroots, all sustaining projects serving a wide variety of community needs. million children.

Nonprofit governance and management 59

Nonprofit governance and management Governance Insurance Social Enterprise 59

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 122

Food Finance Community Development Culture 122

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

However, this also means that residents contribute very little equity to reduce financing costs. As a result, financing costs can run as much as 110 percent of the purchase price. ROC USA can make this work because it can extend financing via its community development financial institution (CDFI) subsidiary.

Manufacturing 116

Manufacturing Finance Nonprofit governance and management Law 116

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 29, 2023

What if the tens of thousands of churches currently projected to close in the next few years put their assets into trusts deeply aligned with community development, versus stranding those assets and real estate as they shutter?

Nonprofit governance and management 119

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

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 4, 2023

R2G hopes to secure funding to expand its project to serve upwards of 20 restaurants in the neighborhood, which depends on securing land, purchasing a $200,000 in-vessel composter, purchasing hauling vehicles, and financing site improvements like secure fencing and lighting. Many people and organizations grapple with this problem.

Nonprofit governance and management 124

Nonprofit governance and management Food Public and Nonprofit Management Environmental 124