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 111

Manufacturing Finance Nonprofit governance and management Law 111

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 119

Public and Social Policy Public Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Culture 119

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 122

Marketing Marketing Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management 122

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 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 112

Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management Finance Public and Nonprofit Management 112

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.

Community Development 96

Community Development Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Cultural Diversity 96

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

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 111

Finance Law Governance Entrepreneurship 111

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 106

Finance Community Development Non-Profits Nonprofit governance and management 106

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 103

Food Public and Nonprofit Management Medical Community Development 103

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

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 102

Philanthropy Culture Agriculture Community Development 102

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

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 116

Food Finance Community Development Culture 116

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

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 103

Public and Nonprofit Management Participation and motivation Nonprofit governance and management Poverty 103

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

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 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 115

Non-Profits Finance Collaborations Public and Nonprofit Management 115

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 77

Disaster Relief Nonprofit Administration and Development Social Enterprise Social Enterprise 77

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

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

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 99

Curriculum and Teaching Finance Children Recruitment 99

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 115

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

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 Values Advertising 167

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 126

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 126

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 129

Governance Culture Construction Community Development 129

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.

Nonprofit governance and management 98

Nonprofit governance and management Leadership Nonprofits Law 98

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 116

Nonprofit governance and management Food Public and Nonprofit Management Environmental 116

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 129

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

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 14, 2024

billion in assets under management. According to the report, of the 42 funds where data are available, half (21) are small by standard investment industry standards—having less than $50 million in assets under management. ESOPs are also typically not democratically managed (although they can be if the ESOP is structured as such).

Finance 93

Finance Non-Profits Nonprofit governance and management Management 93

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A Government of National Unity As a response to the dwindling support, the ANC agreed to form a coalition government. So, what should we expect from President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Government of National Unity? This support comes despite the fact that their ANC-led governments have been largely ineffective.

Philanthropy 84

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Poverty Civil Society 84

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. After raising $4.5 million.

Food 127

Food Community Development Medical Nonprofit governance and management 127