NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Not only is it possible to access federal funds, but the same elements that are needed for frontline and underinvested, predominantly BIPOC communities to benefit from public funding are also the most promising approaches to address more broadly the impacts of climate change at the local level.

Governance 93

Governance Community Development Environmental Collaborations 93

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. She adds, “The majority of Detroiters are African American.

Food 134

Food Nonprofit governance and management Finance Governance 134

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 121

Marketing Marketing Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management 121

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 113

Manufacturing Finance Nonprofit governance and management Law 113

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 15, 2025

billion) in assets under management and a 30-year track record, isnt wrong per se. Five years ago, BII launched a cohort-based approach to help organizations in other communities set up similar funds. Venture funds are self-sustaining, with management fees on large investments more than covering expenses. Each fund is unique.

Public and Social Policy 101

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Public Policy 101

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Here are a few viable approaches that we have encountered: Collaborate with mission-aligned institutions : This might include partnerships with community development financial institutions (CDFIs), Minority Depository Institutions (MDIs), or local credit unions. What might building strategic relationships look like?

Finance 107

Finance Agriculture Environmental Nonprofit governance and management 107

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. That day management got on their ass—we were there. We had to educate them.

Education 141

Education Education Governance Food 141

Pam Moore

AUGUST 31, 2018

You must get in the head of both your management as well as your audience. You are not speaking the same language as your management. It could be you are talking apples and your management is talking oranges. Too many new social media managers get all hyped up about vanity metrics such as followers, likes, etc.

Management 147

Management Marketing Marketing Leadership 147

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Image credit: Drew Beamer on Unsplash For community development financial institutions (CDFIs), these are extraordinary times. The CDFIs must do more in terms of training people and providing the technical assistance needed to make local community-based lending effective. It was a real estate development company.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 115

Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management Finance Public and Nonprofit Management 115

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

A new report, Models of Holistic Tribal Land Stewardship in the Northern Great Plains , published by the First Nations Development Institute and authored by Mary Adelzadeh, examines these themes as it highlights efforts by four Native nations in Montana and South Dakota to restore stewardship principles to land management.

Nonprofit governance and management 140

Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Environmental Food 140

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 10, 2023

The conference brings together hundreds of community activists, government officials, and bank community development officers. It’s an odd mix, but one that NCRC has managed for the past 33 years. These maps continued to govern bank lending until the passage of the Fair Housing Act of 1968.

Finance 113

Finance Law Governance Entrepreneurship 113

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JANUARY 13, 2023

I served as the Program Director for community development and microenterprise development at MIFA. For seven years, I served as the Senior Program Officer for a financial intermediary providing grant making, technical assistance, and training for community development corporations, and grassroots organizations.

Nonprofit governance and management 90

Nonprofit governance and management Leadership Community Development Organizational Change 90

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 106

Food Public and Nonprofit Management Medical Community Development 106

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 109

Finance Community Development Non-Profits Nonprofit governance and management 109

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 97

Public and Nonprofit Management Community Development Nonprofit governance and management Cultural Diversity 97

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 122

Public and Social Policy Public Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Culture 122

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2023

As Eliya Imtiaz, former managing editor of the “Michigan in Color” section of the Michigan Daily , put it last year, “Similar to most ideals in this country, the current notion of DEI heightens the façade that everything occurs on an individual level.” Artists are essential to any vision that calls the future into question.

Philanthropy 105

Philanthropy Culture Agriculture Community Development 105

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 119

Food Finance Community Development Culture 119

Care2

OCTOBER 14, 2010

I serve as the Community Development Manager for TechSoup Global's CDI (Community-Driven Innovation) program, which includes managing community and content strategy for NetSquared.org.

Nonprofit governance and management 61

Nonprofit governance and management Collaborations Community Development Governance 61

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.

Public and Nonprofit Management 104

Public and Nonprofit Management Participation and motivation Nonprofit governance and management Poverty 104

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. For example, funders can provide flexible operational support that helps organizations engage with their communities.

Health 105

Health Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Philanthropy 105

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Our government is discussing providing free wifi throughout in Mexico City which is a very good sign for crowdfunding and even better for NGOs funding. Es titular de una Maestría en Management de EMLYON Business School en Francia. Finally, digitalization is growing fast in Mexico. 81% of donors in Mexico volunteer. 93% regularly vote.

Disaster Relief 76

Disaster Relief Nonprofit Administration and Development Social Enterprise Social Enterprise 76

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 119

Non-Profits Finance Collaborations Public and Nonprofit Management 119

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 Nonprofit governance and management Community Development Leadership 52

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

Pam Moore

AUGUST 31, 2018

You must get in the head of both your management as well as your audience. You are not speaking the same language as your management. It could be you are talking apples and your management is talking oranges. Too many new social media managers get all hyped up about vanity metrics such as followers, likes, etc.

Management 60

Management Marketing Marketing Leadership 60

Pam Moore

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

It also helps veteran marketers get their stakeholders and executive management on board with their marketing programs by more easily explaining to them the importance of designing the best possible experience for their target buyers. Sales are often negatively impacted by one specific area in a conversion funnel.

Marketing 78

Marketing Marketing Advertising Production 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

· 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 Steps to a Profitable Digital and Social Media Marketing Plan.

Marketing 78

Marketing Marketing Foundations Technology 78

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 114

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development Foundations 114

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 101

Curriculum and Teaching Finance Children Recruitment 101

Pam Moore

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

What about the LED lighting brands, oil and gas, manufacturing, government regulated, healthcare and the hundreds of other industries, products and services that simply are not something we all go to Facebook to talk about? What if Your Target Audience Doesn’t Want to Talk About or With Your Brand on Facebook? What about the boring brands?

Marketing 167

Marketing Marketing Advertising Values 167

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 16, 2024

The interview that follows explores the history of the Clayborn Temple, the project to restore it, and the vision of Troutman and her colleagues to use the temple as a hub for developing a community-based economy in Memphis that i s Black-owned, Black-governed, and which sustains a thriving culture rooted in the Black imagination.

Governance 131

Governance Culture Construction Community Development 131

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.

Public and Social Policy 129

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 129

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 governance and management 120

Nonprofit governance and management Food Public and Nonprofit Management Environmental 120

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?

Public and Social Policy 131

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