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Community Development Food Governance 
NonProfit Quarterly
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Image credit: Steve Dubb Food is the cover story. Malik Kenyatta Yakini, Up & Coming Food Co-op C onference panel September 15, 2023 There is a wave of food co-ops opening in majority-Black communities, as NPQ has covered. But organizing a food co-op is not easy. The real story is Black self-determination.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
APRIL 3, 2025
The left has often undercut a notion of a mutualist future by insisting that every problem needs a large centralized government solution. To ensure mutualism thrives in the next generation, communities need laws, regulations, practices, and capital markets that encourage solidarity and investment outside of any given silo.
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Forecasting Failures Are Costly: Heres How To Fix Them
The Everyday Donor: Unlocking Prospecting Segments Through Behavior Analysis
What Your Financial Statements Are Telling You—And How to Listen!
A New Look At Grant Management: Why Use A System When You Have Excel?
From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
In the series, urban and rural grassroots leaders from across the United States share how their communities are developing and implementing strategies—grounded in local places, cultures, and histories—to shift power and achieve systemic change. Over the years, I’ve seen corporate food giants pack up and leave our neighborhoods.
111 Forecasting Failures Are Costly: Heres How To Fix Them
The Everyday Donor: Unlocking Prospecting Segments Through Behavior Analysis
What Your Financial Statements Are Telling You—And How to Listen!
A New Look At Grant Management: Why Use A System When You Have Excel?
From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Image Credit: Oladimeji Odunsi on unsplash.com How do you support development across the food system in a way that builds community ownership and power for Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities? This is a question that a group of food system activists of color have come together to address.
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NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
Image credit: Getty Images on Unsplash Consider a food bank discovering that its operating reserves are in banks that finance industrial agriculture, the very system contributing to food insecurity and displacing small community farms. What might building strategic relationships look like?
121 
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
After seven years of kitchen-table and Zoom organizing, a multi-stakeholder, cooperative, community-owned grocery store is taking shape in Louisville, KY. In October, the metro council of Louisville’s combined city-county government voted to allocate $3.5 million to help make a co-op grocery a reality. We secured $3.5
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NonProfit Quarterly
DECEMBER 15, 2022
This article concludes Black Food Sovereignty: Stories from the Field , a series that has been co-produced by Frontline Solutions and NPQ. This series features stories from a group of Black food sovereignty leaders who are working to transform the food system at the local level.
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Anedot
APRIL 8, 2025
Organization Overview With over 40 years of service, West Marin Community Services (WMCS) provides essential assistance such as food distribution, emergency financial aid, referrals to social services, and equity-driven community engagement to residents in West Marin. Thrift Store: Generating funds for community programs.
NonProfit Quarterly
OCTOBER 25, 2023
Image credit: TuiPhotoengineer on istock.com This is the fifth and final article in NPQ ’s series titled Building Power, Fighting Displacement: Stories from Asian Pacific America , coproduced with the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development ( National CAPACD ).
NonProfit Quarterly
OCTOBER 4, 2023
To transform our economy, we need to network, learn, ideate, iterate, and resource the work together as nonprofits, for-profits, community leaders and members, philanthropic institutions, governments, donors, and investors. At the same time, one of us, Lizzy Baskerville, managed a community garden for elder Asian neighbors.
NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 10, 2024
Image credit: Drew Katz Black Bostonian communities citywide have more than just something to say for themselves: their economies are building institutions that prioritize asset-based community development and are creating the foundations for a local solidarity economy. In his eyes, “We can’t pilot this stuff anymore.
131 
Candid
APRIL 22, 2025
Volunteers comprise one-third of the nonprofit workforce ; voluntary human capital plays a critical role in delivering essential local services such as food security, disaster response, and youth mentorship. Advocate: Emphasize the vital role of volunteering in driving broader societal change and community development.
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
When schools and daycares shuttered, when food and other supply chains broke, who delivered baby supplies to parents juggling virtual work and young children? Who brought food to housebound elders? The nonprofit sector, along with community-based mutual aid networks , stepped up to meet immediate needs.
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NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 25, 2023
A salient example is of organizations that are focused on community development but invest in mass incarceration. Key IPS components may include scope and purpose, governance, investment asset classes, return and risk objectives, investment benchmarking, and risk management.
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 25, 2022
The resources involved were modest ($240,000 total) but the ambition was large—namely, to assist Native nations to “regain control of their land and natural resources, revitalize traditional stewardship practices, and build sustainable stewardship initiatives that contribute to tribal economic and community development opportunities.”
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. What would it take to fully fund the human capital, governance, and advocacy costs of nonprofits? The other five work for nonprofit intermediary organizations. If not, why not?
NonProfit Quarterly
OCTOBER 11, 2023
Image credit: Matthew Moloney on unsplash.com This is the third article in NPQ ’s series titled Building Power, Fighting Displacement: Stories from Asian Pacific America, coproduced with the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development ( National CAPACD ). What does gentrification look like?
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.
122 
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 11, 2023
For example, we followed a team of founders who were committed to supporting “cottage” food entrepreneurs—mostly women of color who had excellent cooking skills but lacked business skills and ready access to fresh ingredients and licensed kitchens. A How-to Guide for Scaling Deep.
130 
NonProfit Quarterly
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Another examplethis one involving the government rather than the university per seillustrates how different partners, even when aligned, may have very different expectations. As Johnson elaborated, the only real expense the first year was for food on family dinner nights.
119 
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
Image credit: “ Nature, food, landscape, travel ” on istock.com Creating and preserving quality affordable housing is notoriously difficult, with the number of available units declining each year as landlords raise rents ever higher. But this increases the cost of servicing the resultant larger loans.
116 
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
Back in 2019, I published a study on what I called “cooperative cities” in which I wrote about how local governments in a dozen US cities create enabling environments for developing and sustaining worker cooperatives. Only a handful of municipal leaders at the time referred to this work as “community wealth building.”
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MNA Association
OCTOBER 16, 2024
We also know that partnering with government and the public sector is critical to advance our missions and build thriving communities. Senator, I meet regularly with Montana nonprofits and work to make sure that our government is partnering with them to serve local communities. As Montana’s senior U.S.
NonProfit Quarterly
JULY 12, 2023
Image Credit: Abe Camacho on unsplash.com This article introduces a new NPQ series, Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. Latinx and other immigrant community commercial corridors allow residents to access foods and products native to their country of origin and, therefore, help preserve their cultural identity.
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NonProfit Quarterly
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
Mission-Driven Land Acquisition In communities all over the country, commercial corridors are lined with small mom-and-pop establishments that provide communities with food and services but also hire locally and act as ambassadors for culture. All of us have heard the rhetoric of government largesse and inefficiency.
128 
The NonProfit Times
MAY 1, 2024
House lawmakers requesting earmarks from money allocated to the federal Department of Transportation and the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (T-HUD) 2025 Economic Development Initiative will be restricted to doing so only for state, local and tribal governments and public colleges and universities.
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NonProfit Quarterly
JUNE 27, 2023
Neighborhood Initiativ e, a community-led housing and land trust in Boston. And we’ll also hear from Amaha Selassie of Gem City , a food cooperative in Dayton, Ohio. 00:01:38] We’ll be hearing from Minnie McMahon of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, a community-led Housing and land trust in Boston.
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? Looking to expand and develop a permanent storefront, they participated in the food business course.
NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 5, 2023
Other properties house art studios for Alaska Native and American Indian artists; a restaurant; and a credit union, which was the first financial institution to open in the community in over 20 years. This farm supports 20 immigrant and refugee farmers and emerging food entrepreneurs.
NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 12, 2023
In my experience as a practitioner and advocate in the field, the solidarity-economy field has focused mostly on higher education, professional skill development, popular education, and community-based adult education, mostly led by small nonprofits or training cooperatives.
NonProfit Quarterly
OCTOBER 28, 2024
In August 2024, the Global Mercy, the world’s largest civilian hospital ship, docked at the port of Freetown for a 10-month field service to provide surgical operations and educational training by invitation of the government of Sierra Leone. Mercy Ships is not the only medical NGO that offers medical care by boat, but it is one the largest.
116 
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 4, 2024
“In cities like Richmond, California, and Boston, Massachusetts, which had experienced ‘food apartheid,’ the need for locally grown, healthy food supported the rise of urban farms that employed returning citizens. Two things changed how wealth was managed.
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
We asked ourselves, “What else can we do if indeed we fundamentally believe that positive health outcomes—positive life outcomes—result from good jobs, good education, safe housing, healthy, affordable foods, and safe, prosperous communities? One HEZ lead is a community health center with multiple sites.
124 
NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 24, 2023
It was a smaller autonomous school called the School of Social Justice and Community Development. However, eight months after Lumumba was elected, he died of heart failure, and the anticipated alliance with the city government did not materialize. Akuno explained that 20 years ago, he was working in Oakland, California.
141 
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. That’s where I come in.
116 
NonProfit Quarterly
AUGUST 8, 2023
With the WORK Act, tens of millions of dollars in government resources will be disbursed to employee-ownership centers around the country, fundamentally changing the playing field for worker-owners, freelancers, and cooperative innovators. What if that scale of resources flowed to our communities instead of to Wall Street?
Bloomerang
JULY 31, 2021
And just some areas I wanted to share with you just so that you know the kind of funding that’s going to be out there is that 65 billion is going to be directed towards counties, and many of them are going to be in the form of community development block grants. Generally, not government funding, but that doesn’t mean.
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Last month, the Opportunity Finance Network (OFN), the nation’s leading community development financial institution (CDFI) trade association, held its first in-person national conference in three years in New York City. In other words, is the phrase a call for government—and corporate donors and foundations—to invest in CDFIs?
111 
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 18, 2024
It was something that I knew existed, but I didn’t know how dependent I was on it until I got to college and started to pay my own food bills. Chokwe’s role was enlarged because we have a strong mayor type of government. A totally different orientation to government. That co-op, that CSA, was a lifesaver for us. Probably not.
NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 13, 2024
In 1935, the Social Security Act, introduced by the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, established an idea that expressed the value that (some) Americans deserve a government that will not allow them to slide into poverty if they fall on hard times, become ill, and/or age out of the workforce.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
In vibrant and thriving communities, people have the power and resources to realize their vision of health and well-being. Residents, regardless of zip code or how much money they have, can breathe clean air, eat healthy and culturally appropriate food, and have a safe, affordable place to call home. Creating a Learning Community.
105 
NonProfit Quarterly
JULY 26, 2023
4 Once on Prospect, I was awash in a sea of excitement and activity as over 150 residents, labor activists, students, and onlookers buzzed about, handing out food and water, playing with young children, stewarding informational tables, dancing to the music, and finishing a massive art project that immediately drew my attention.
98 
NonProfit Quarterly
JULY 19, 2023
The federal government and its welfare state programs—often known as the New Deal, and including federal programs and reforms such as Social Security and the Works Progress Administration, were forged in the world-historical political events of the first half of the 20th century and the rise of a powerful labor movement.
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 8, 2025
This happens daily when local governments park public funds in banks. Today, our communities face multiple challengesranging from accelerating climate change to growing income inequality, from refugee crises to housing crises, and from basic food access to self-serving financial systems. It turns out, quite a lot.
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