NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 7, 2024

Image credit: Oladimeji Odunsi and Dave Webb on Unsplash The past few years have seen a flurry of workers organizing across the country, from Starbucks and Amazon workers to new forms of cooperative ownership and governance sharing. Five years ago, I found myself working at a midsized community development nonprofit.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 10, 2023

The conference brings together hundreds of community activists, government officials, and bank community development officers. Community Reinvestment Strengths and Shortfalls NCRC was formed in 1990 to defend the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act , a law created to undo the structural racism embedded in redlining.

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Finance Law Governance Entrepreneurship 116

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

ROC USA can make this work because it can extend financing via its community development financial institution (CDFI) subsidiary. It can also tap into philanthropic funds and an increasing number of public sources of low-cost debt and community development grants. Philanthropy can also increase its support.

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NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Image Credit: Getty Images for Unsplash In September, over 700 worker co-op members, co-op developers, supporters, and organizers from across the country came to Chicago to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives (USFWC), the national worker co-op federation.

Public and Social Policy 128

Public and Social Policy Public Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Culture 128

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?

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Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 132

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 13, 2023

Through collaborative action, Mothers Out Front East Boston is fighting for the right to breathe clean air and live and work in a community that is safe and healthy. We are demanding equal protection and equal enforcement of environmental laws and regulations. We also need our government agencies to protect us.

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Race and Ethnicity Health Environmental Children 128

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Since most universities are nonprofit or publicly owned, by law, they must be community-serving. Another examplethis one involving the government rather than the university per seillustrates how different partners, even when aligned, may have very different expectations.

Universities 119

Universities Curriculum and Teaching Participation and motivation Culture 119

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 A Co-op for Whom?

Food 111

Food Construction Public and Social Policy Governance 111

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

We know it’s a story of extraction, [of] government reliance on the nonprofit world, but that felt like a whole lot bigger than TBF. And there’s a way that that language gets co-opted as anti-government. It’s structurally incentivized—foundations and government funders are keeping this inadequate system churning.

Public and Social Policy 105

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance Public and Nonprofit Management 105

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

As for initiatives underway in the Twin Cities and Los Angeles, both efforts are nascent, but both groups also appear to have developed a strong set of partners, making these efforts promising. That said, while money to acquire land is vitally important, community ownership of commercial property requires more than acquisition funds.

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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.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofits 98

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Monitor Legislation that Impacts Your Nonprofit and the Children and Families You Serve Nonprofits must be legislative watchdogs for three key reasons: Impact awareness: New laws affect funding, operations, and beneficiary eligibility. Advocacy opportunity: Proactive engagement shapes legislation to better serve communities.

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Children Nonprofit Administration and Development Law Education 52

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.

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Participation and motivation Community Development Nonprofit governance and management Leadership 52

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 8, 2025

Image Credit: AndreyPopov on iStock The seeds of a financial system that works for the public are already all around us, from credit unions and loan funds to community bonds and Green Banks. Community banks are too small to absorb billions of dollars in municipal deposits. But meaningful transformation requires changing state law.

Finance 136

Finance Law Poverty Governance 136

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Policymakers and advocates say: Government must expedite the redevelopment of underutilized church property for affordable housing. Churches should partner with developers and repurpose these properties. Data analysts say: Accelerating church closures are evidence that US Christianity is dying.

Community Development 130

Community Development Finance Production Governance 130

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Tangled titles disproportionately affect Black and Brown families due to inequitable access to legal services and persistent discrimination that has broken many families’ trust in the systems governing property ownership. Tangled titles arise when a property owner passes their home or land down to multiple heirs without a clear title.

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Law Insurance Philanthropy Community Development 122

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

First, democratic funds like Seed Commons, 4 Ujima Fund, 5 and the Just Transition Integrated Capital Fund gave us a new model for how communities could steward and govern capital together. These new laws channeled philanthropic assets into municipal bonds and community development loan funds, which stabilized local municipalities.

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Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Taxation 133

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

Image Credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang In August 2018, the first legislation explicitly naming worker-owned cooperatives—the Main Street Employee Ownership Act—became United States federal law. What if that scale of resources flowed to our communities instead of to Wall Street?

Public Policy 96

Public Policy Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 96

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Cliff Rosenthal was the executive director of the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions (now called Inclusiv ) from 1983 until 2012. The federation is a national association of credit unions largely run and owned by people of color serving low-income and primarily BIPOC communities. I did not expect to lose.

Finance 110

Finance Nonprofit Administration and Development Community Development Governance 110

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Public health professionals and community developers—along with community activists—were having “aha” moments about the linkage between social determinants of health and terrible, systemic health outcomes for people of color and those living on low incomes. One HEZ lead is a community health center with multiple sites.

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Health Race and Ethnicity Food Children 124

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2024

The false belief that a person can leverage hard work and talent to pull themselves and their family out of poverty should they only try is a pervasive story that has shaped our culture and laws. Racial discrimination was written into the laws, so these programs continue to be, at best, a Band-Aid solution accessible to only some Americans.

Public and Social Policy 122

Public and Social Policy Poverty Children Law 122

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Colorado’s Story Colorado is home to some of the country’s most favorable cooperative laws. Given this recent investment in outreach and education efforts, coupled with heightened interest from local governments, we expect to see many more employee-owned businesses statewide in the next five years. Despite this growth, an estimated 24.7

Public and Social Policy 122

Public and Social Policy Finance Governance Culture 122

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

This was not so often the case in the 1960s, when civil rights laws were passed and long-term employment, at least in unionized sectors, was the norm; it is the case today. Conservative politicians and business lobbyists wielded labor law to suppress union activity, such as making boycotts and solidarity strikes illegal.

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Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 96

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In 2018, we developed the Advancing Health Equity Through Housing (HEH) funding opportunity and supported 31 organizations working at the intersection of housing and health equity in cities across the United States. Creating a Learning Community.

Health 105

Health Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Philanthropy 105

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 26, 2023

12 Today’s schools redirect to cities and college towns what used to be known as “suburban research parks” 13 and now are termed “innovation districts,” in which academic research and corporate sponsors bring together real estate development, various forms of retail, and relatively cheap knowledge labor.

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Education Education Universities Public and Nonprofit Management 98

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Fortunately, community land trust (CLT) homeownership appears more successful than most government programs for first-time, low-income homebuyers—both due to demonstrated increased housing stability for residents and a participatory board model that includes both resident and nonresident community representation.

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Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 131

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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Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance Finance 128

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

While the title of the book might belie the scope of inquiry, Dunning makes the case that using nonprofits as a “tool for addressing urban problems” has led to a form of “urban governance” that uses private organizations to fulfill public, democratic rights. And over time, private foundations emerged and issued grants in a similar way.

Public and Social Policy 124

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Governance 124

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 3, 2025

Image credit: AmnajKhetsamtip on iStock Community development financial institutions (CDFIs) have emerged as pivotal players in bridging financial gaps in underserved communities. An executive order (14238)calls for reducing the CDFI Fundto the minimum presence and function required by law.

Finance 72

Finance Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management 72

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

A lot of that investment has to come from the federal government, but some also comes from the local level. Mike Koprowski: We also need to build more affordable housing units, and the federal government could help state and local governments with this by creating incentives for them to ease up on the cost of development.

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Poverty Health 111

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Photo courtesy of Roco Guenther As the morning light filters through the windows of temporary shelters and government housing scattered across the city, refugees like Yulia Ihnatieva from Ukraine begin their day. The city fully embraces Gemeinwesenarbeit, a German term that refers to community development.

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Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 89

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 7, 2023

Image Credit: edgeeffectmedia.com on unsplash.com Leah Rothstein has been a consultant to nonprofit housing developers, local government, and private firms. Recently, with her father Richard Rothstein, she coauthored a book called Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law.

Law 121

Law Governance Nonprofit Administration and Development Poverty 121