Community Development Foundations Homelessness 
NonProfit Quarterly
DECEMBER 6, 2023
Image credit: coffeekai on istock.com Community is one of humanity’s great achievements. Yet community development corporations , a $28 billion sector of over 6,200 nonprofits that support local community economic development, are largely invisible in the national conversation. CDCs are dead.
Nonprofit Marketing Guide
MAY 21, 2012
In my fundraising work with smaller nonprofit organizations, the number one thing I see hindering our grantwriting projects is staff members’ fear of calling potential foundation funders to introduce the organization and to inquire about the possible fit of project(s) with the funder’s interests. small development shop.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
OCTOBER 16, 2023
CNN recently reported that “California has spent billions to fight homelessness. Current philanthropic work—as a leader of a prominent US-based foundation remarked at a recent Stanford PACS conference—leaves people exhausted. Real progress seems elusive. The problem has gotten worse.” Perhaps we should consider increasing our efforts.
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.
NonProfit Quarterly
JUNE 13, 2023
But a conference , hosted by Neighborhood Economics this past April, which brought over two hundred people to Jackson, MS—ranging from impact investors to foundation, nonprofit, and church leaders—purposefully sought to break the mold. They provide social services, healthcare screening, workforce development, and education.”
Getting Attention
MARCH 22, 2012
3) Communications Associate and Director of Development and Communications. National Alliance to End Homelessness (Washington, D.C.). 4) Communications Coordinator , EMILY’S List (Washington, D.C.). 5) Communications Director , Progress Michigan (Lansing, MI). Project Vote Smart (Philipsburg, MT).
Stanford Social Innovation Review
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Housing instability—whether through homelessness or frequent evictions and moves—creates chronic, toxic stress and exposes people to traumatic and unhealthy situations. Both the foundation and grantees participated in developing learning questions, sensemaking, and application of learning to practice.
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