NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 25, 2023

Developing a sound approach to managing these assets is part of the fiduciary responsibility of nonprofit boards. A salient example is of organizations that are focused on community development but invest in mass incarceration. These assets help nonprofits deliver on their missions by generating income.

Public and Social Policy 126

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

Pam Moore

OCTOBER 3, 2016

They are often thrown to the wild pack of tweeting craziness as their management teams and leadership know less than they do in understanding how to drive business value using these new social tools and methodologies. We must understand mindsets of our stakeholders, management and team members. Click To Tweet.

Marketing 167

Marketing Marketing Management Foundations 167

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This is a question animating much of our work in East Texas, where a local family foundation ( T.L.L. Temple ) and a community development financial institution ( Communities Unlimited ) are teaming to develop bottom-up structural solutions to building rural capacity.

Entrepreneurship 126

Entrepreneurship Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations 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. Heron Foundation offers an example of 100 percent impact endowment alignment.

Nonprofit governance and management 119

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

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

For years, I have directed IFF , a community development financial institution that specializes in nonprofit facilities lending. A Hierarchy of Nonprofit Facilities’ Needs After 30 years in community development, I have come to think of nonprofit facilities as existing on a continuum of need. It is too hot or cold.

Values 122

Values Community Development Psychology Healthcare 122

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. But the hype persists.

Marketing 122

Marketing Marketing Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management 122

Candid

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Once the preserve of large foundations and mega-donors, impact investing is growing in popularity, including among women and younger generations. Of course, whether we’re writing checks to local charities, endowing a scholarship at our alma mater, or establishing a family foundation, we’re investing for impact. In 2023 alone, U.S.

Public and Nonprofit Management 98

Public and Nonprofit Management Environmental Foundations Philanthropy 98

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 22, 2023

But in 2016, a group of marine scientists and conservation managers collaborated with the community of Alligator Head to establish the East Portland Fishing Sanctuary , with the goal of restoring the island’s coast. As a warden, he assists the foundation with patrolling and maintaining its restoration programs.

Education 111

Education Education Foundations Environmental 111

Pam Moore

AUGUST 2, 2017

6 foundational pillars for success for Facebook marketing for business. Not only do you learn the foundations of online marketing but you also will learn how to master all of the top social networks including Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and more! Grab your seat right now.

Marketing 165

Marketing Marketing Foundations Community Development 165

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 21, 2022

At a recent professional dinner, I struck up a fascinating conversation with a woman who has spent her legal career working in civil rights, housing, and community development. I once heard a CDFI leader remark that when the borrowers we need in the community don’t exist, we as CDFIs need to go out there and create them.

Finance 111

Finance Community Development Non-Profits Nonprofit governance and management 111

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 116

Manufacturing Finance Nonprofit governance and management Law 116

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. I also come from a family of grocery workers and managers.

Food 111

Food Public and Nonprofit Management Medical Community Development 111

Getting Attention

AUGUST 3, 2012

2) Awareness and Community Relations Manager. 3) Communications Coordinator , The Immunization Partnership (Houston, TX). 6) Manager, Community Development , Arthritis Foundation (Philadelphia, PA). 7) Marketing and Sales Intern and Media and Communications Intern. Website Manager.

Public and Nonprofit Management 61

Public and Nonprofit Management Food Energy Associations 61

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 16, 2023

Image credit: Corey Agopian on unsplash.com This article concludes NPQ’s series Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. Those who’ve managed to scratch out a way to stay are at risk every day of being erased. Boost cultural economic development with commercial district revitalization strategies.

Public and Nonprofit Management 98

Public and Nonprofit Management Community Development Nonprofit governance and management Cultural Diversity 98

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. What can be done to address this gap? Coastal Enterprises, Inc.,

Curriculum and Teaching 105

Curriculum and Teaching Finance Children Recruitment 105

Getting Attention

MARCH 22, 2012

1) Business Development Manager and. Marketing Campaigns Manager. 2) Communications Associate. 3) Communications Associate and Director of Development and Communications. 4) Communications Coordinator , EMILY’S List (Washington, D.C.). 13) Event Coordinator and Program Manager.

Marketing 58

Marketing Marketing Homelessness Associations 58

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 9, 2024

To find out, NPQ interviewed Malik Kenyatta Yakini, cofounder of the Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network (DBCFSN); Lanay Gilbert-Williams, current co-op board president; and Akil Talley, the co-op’s first full-time permanent general manager. Raising money was another challenge.

Food 134

Food Nonprofit governance and management Finance Governance 134

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2023

Akilah Watkins, who previously led the Center for Community Progress and has been a leader in the CEO Circle, a group of community development leaders of color, became president and CEO of Independent Sector in January 2023. I don’t want that just to stay in community development.

Civil Society 98

Civil Society Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Social Policy Leadership 98

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Separating people from who and what they need causes trauma not just individually, but at the community level, which has negative consequences for people’s health. Both the foundation and grantees participated in developing learning questions, sensemaking, and application of learning to practice.

Health 105

Health Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Philanthropy 105

The Agitator

MARCH 25, 2013

Just got around to reading about the 13 organizations that recently won recognition (and $$) from the MacArthur Foundation for their creativity and effectiveness. million) enables peer learning and collaboration among more than 100 affordable housing and community development leaders. Here are the 13 winners for 2013.

Foundations 79

Foundations Nonprofits Law Energy 79

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 24, 2023

It was a smaller autonomous school called the School of Social Justice and Community Development. Akuno emphasized that the central foundation of Cooperation Jackson’s work is not the worker cooperatives it helps develop per se, but rather the community land trust, because the latter ensures Cooperation Jackson’s ownership of land.

Education 141

Education Education Governance Food 141

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2024

CRH’s salvation eventually came in the form of a collaborative approach, pivoting toward a combination of emergency funding provided by a small family foundation; a nonprofit, non-extractive loan fund; a third-party investment firm; and a coalition of Latinx community development financial institutions (CDFIs).

Non-Profits 124

Non-Profits Finance Collaborations Public and Nonprofit Management 124

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Connie Binkowitz, director of development and external policy at CTC, described how, in 2020, the organization received a grant from the Memphis Division of Housing and Community Development (DHCD). This grant came out of a program supported by federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) dollars.

Governance 106

Governance Community Development Environmental Collaborations 106

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Current philanthropic work—as a leader of a prominent US-based foundation remarked at a recent Stanford PACS conference—leaves people exhausted. is oriented towards the future: building and maintaining health around a vision of “Zero Disease” as the foundation for a fulfilling life. Perhaps we should consider increasing our efforts.

Philanthropy 139

Philanthropy Homelessness Psychology Health 139

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

What makes the strip mall unique is its community ownership. A nonprofit, the East Portland Community Investment Trust , serves as the owner and lead manager and developer of the property, and for a monthly subscription fee of $10 to $100, nearby residents can become owners themselves. percent poverty rate (as of 2001).

Public and Nonprofit Management 105

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

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

How Current Capital Systems Reinforce Inequality Foundations, philanthropists, and impact investors can do better by bridging gaps in crucial areas with flexible and patient…capital. Foundations, philanthropists, and impact investors can do better by bridging gaps in crucial areas with flexible and patient (long-term and low-cost) capital.

Finance 80

Finance Culture Foundations Public and Social Policy 80

Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

For nonprofit managers who oversee tedious administrative work and grant proposal grinds, for instance, AI is a godsend for reducing time suck. Significant contributions went towards advocacy, legal support, and community development. Give your organization a foundation to build from and then refine. Check it out here.​

Nonprofit Administration and Development 96

Nonprofit Administration and Development Children Nonprofits Collaborations 96

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? Developing Community Leadership Entrepreneurs play a critical role as community builders.

Participation and motivation 52

Participation and motivation Community Development Nonprofit governance and management Leadership 52

Pam Moore

DECEMBER 21, 2020

· 7 Steps to a Profitable Digital and Social Media Marketing Plan Developing a digital marketing and social media marketing plan that delivers measurable results requires more than a few pretty visuals or snazzy bite size videos you post on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.

Marketing 78

Marketing Marketing Foundations Technology 78

Pam Moore

DECEMBER 21, 2020

· 7 Steps to a Profitable Digital and Social Media Marketing Plan Developing a digital marketing and social media marketing plan that delivers measurable results requires more than a few pretty visuals or snazzy bite size videos you post on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.

Marketing 78

Marketing Marketing Foundations Technology 78

Pam Moore

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Developing a digital marketing and social media marketing plan that delivers measurable results requires more than a few pretty visuals or snazzy bite size videos you post on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram. 7 Essential steps to develop a profitable social media strategy & plan that delivers results. What you'll learn… .

Marketing 78

Marketing Marketing Foundations Technology 78

Pam Moore

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Governance with a balance of risk management and employee empowerment. Community development strategy and plan inclusive of social listening and engagement. It's usually (hopefully) approved with an expectation of the following (at minimum): Aligned to top business goals where it can have a positive impact on results.

Governance 60

Governance Marketing Marketing Education 60

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 22, 2025

Image Credit: Brian Koellish on iStock Nearly a third of US communities are CDFI deserts. In these turbulent times, many leaders of the nations growing network of community development financial institutions (CDFIs)which now collectively manage $468 billion in assets, a 615 percent increase over the past decadehave high hopes.

Finance 105

Finance Nonprofit Administration and Development Poverty Public and Nonprofit Management 105

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

A Model Rooted in Partnerships To pursue this vision, UPILF has developed many partnerships like the one that we now have with the African American Christian Clergy Coalition (AACCC) in Arizona, where Pastor Aubrey Barnwell of First New Life Church (FNL) in Phoenix, partnered with UPILF to address financial needs among his church members.

Education 107

Education Education Community Development Homelessness 107

Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

But if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang beyond the webinars, we are a provider of donor management software. So I always like to take a step back and say, “Okay, before we start to talk about writing, and management, and all of these other things, I think it’s really important to think about how do we get here?

Nonprofit governance and management 119

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development Foundations 119

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.

Insurance 135

Insurance Universities Finance Foundations 135