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.

Public and Social Policy 132

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

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 25, 2023

A salient example is of organizations that are focused on community development but invest in mass incarceration. Key IPS components may include scope and purpose, governance, investment asset classes, return and risk objectives, investment benchmarking, and risk management.

Public and Social Policy 126

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

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. This process closes the food waste loop, keeping financial and natural resources in the community.

Nonprofit governance and management 123

Nonprofit governance and management Food Public and Nonprofit Management Environmental 123

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 17, 2024

We know that the racial homeownership gap is, in large measure, the product of historic redlining , as well as past and ongoing discrimination. One driver of this ongoing inequality is the current federal system of financing, which largely depends on two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs)— Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Finance 131

Finance Production Insurance Values 131

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 26, 2023

Image Credit: Bruno Guerrero on unsplash.com This is the third article in NPQ ’s series titled Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. Among the coalition participants is the organization I work for, the Latino Economic Development Corporation. Construction began in 2017.

Construction 98

Construction Community Development Governance Environmental 98

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 17, 2023

Coproduced by Partners for Rural Transformation, a coalition of six regional community development financial institutions, and NPQ , the authors highlight efforts to address multigenerational poverty in Appalachia, the rural West, Indian Country, South Texas, and the Mississippi Delta. Regions Bank was its only financial institution.

Poverty 131

Poverty Community Development Finance Philanthropy 131

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 4, 2023

In the US, the federal government is already compensating Indigenous tribes to relocate. The local government claims that clay extraction pits dug by the kumars have stripped the riverbanks of its sturdy top layer of soil, leaving them more susceptible to the erosion caused by climate change.

Agriculture 105

Agriculture Public and Social Policy Governance Construction 105

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. Frankly, it is tiring to plead with outsiders to sell their products here.

Food 110

Food Public and Nonprofit Management Medical Community Development 110

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Last month, the Opportunity Finance Network (OFN), the nation’s leading community development financial institution (CDFI) trade association, held its first in-person national conference in three years in New York City. In other words, is the phrase a call for government—and corporate donors and foundations—to invest in CDFIs?

Finance 110

Finance Community Development Public and Social Policy Poverty 110

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? percent of the country’s 63 million people living in poverty, gross domestic product growth that slowed to 0.6

Philanthropy 93

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Poverty Civil Society 93

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. I entered a history department because I wanted to understand this as a product of history, as not inevitable but the product of choices that people had made. And we’ve been doing that for decades.

Public and Social Policy 105

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

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The climate crisis is not only a product of greenhouse gas emissions… but also of an ideological shift that was imposed by colonization and capitalism to justify violation of sacred land-, water-, and airways—domination that taught Americans to speak of “resources” instead of “relatives.”. Eric Henson et al., Eric Henson et al.,

Nonprofit governance and management 140

Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Environmental Food 140

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 11, 2023

For example, one founder who initially wanted to open a store for reclaimed pet products came out of weeks of reflection sessions with a clear vision for her venture: a service that helps her customers address relational problems with their animal companions. This different scale of venture growth impacted the city in different ways.

Entrepreneurship 129

Entrepreneurship Collaborations Food Finance 129

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Universities, as Baldwin has detailed , turn their research into lucrative commercial goods and patents in a range of fields, from the pharmaceutical industries and software products to health services and military defense weaponry. In the second year, spending climbed to pay for field trips and other activities.

Universities 117

Universities Curriculum and Teaching Participation and motivation Culture 117

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2022

A former 10,000-acre plantation, Mileston was purchased by the federal government in 1940 as part of the Resettlement Administration and redistributed to African Americans in the region, who formed 13 cooperative farms, which are owned by their descendants today. TAGI grows and sells fruit and vegetables while centering community engagement.

Food 126

Food Agriculture Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 126

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 121

Food Finance Community Development Culture 121

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 12, 2023

Image Credit: Abe Camacho on unsplash.com This article introduces a new NPQ series, Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. Latinx and other immigrant community commercial corridors allow residents to access foods and products native to their country of origin and, therefore, help preserve their cultural identity.

Culture 98

Culture Construction Community Development Education 98

Pam Moore

AUGUST 31, 2018

Because not only did I spend 15 years working in corporate America for numerous Fortune 50 brands and startups, managing multi-billion dollar product and service lines with million dollar budgets, I also am the co-founder of an agency, Marketing Nutz , which has been working with clients big and small since 2010.

Management 147

Management Marketing Marketing Leadership 147

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2024

In 1935, the Social Security Act, introduced by the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, established an idea that expressed the value that (some) Americans deserve a government that will not allow them to slide into poverty if they fall on hard times, become ill, and/or age out of the workforce.

Public and Social Policy 121

Public and Social Policy Poverty Children Law 121

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

And then, over the course of the next couple of years, I was able to move out of the policy creation side into policy implementation and worked on creating a new small autonomous school called the School of Social Justice and Community Development. Chokwe’s role was enlarged because we have a strong mayor type of government.

Public and Social Policy 139

Public and Social Policy Education Education Recruitment 139

Pam Moore

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

A sales and marketing conversion funnel describes the stages a buyer of any product or service goes through leading to a purchase. It is the journey of the buyer researching, discovering, choosing and finally purchasing a product or service. The top of funnel is less about YOU, your product and services. Be patient.

Marketing 78

Marketing Marketing Advertising Production 78

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

The restoration includes space for sausage production, with the Vaucresson family operating a café on the site. 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.

Public and Nonprofit Management 105

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

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? Another team of Latinx business owners in our community are Alma Hernández and her husband Christian Morales.

Participation and motivation 52

Participation and motivation Nonprofit governance and management Community Development Leadership 52

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 26, 2023

Hedge Funds That Conduct Classes Today, universities turn their research into lucrative commercial goods and patents in a range of fields, from the pharmaceutical industries and software products to health services and military defense weaponry. 39 And interest in these nonprofit land struggles has gone global.

Education 98

Education Education Universities Public and Nonprofit Management 98

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

As conditions worsen, the size and scope of the nonprofit sector have grown—employing more of the workforce, increasing revenue, and contributing more to gross domestic product. 36 The nonprofit sector grew in this vacuum, filling the gaps where the federal government did not make provision.

Public and Social Policy 95

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 95

Pam Moore

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Your customers and audiences are not waiting on the edge of their virtual seats excited for you to post yet another link to your press release or announcement of the new discount and product or service you want them to buy. Governance with a balance of risk management and employee empowerment. They want experiences. They want value.

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 123

Non-Profits Finance Collaborations Public and Nonprofit Management 123

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 12, 2023

My colleagues and I began having conversations with educators, some of which were facilitated by our close partnership with two youth leadership-development and power-building Bronx institutions: Sistas and Brothas United (of the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition) and The POINT Community Development Corporation in the South Bronx.

Curriculum and Teaching 105

Curriculum and Teaching Education Education Public and Nonprofit Management 105

Pam Moore

DECEMBER 21, 2020

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Marketing 78

Marketing Marketing Foundations Technology 78

Pam Moore

DECEMBER 21, 2020

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Marketing 78

Marketing Marketing Foundations Technology 78

Pam Moore

DECEMBER 21, 2020

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Marketing 78

Marketing Marketing Foundations Technology 78

Pam Moore

AUGUST 31, 2018

Because not only did I spend 15 years working in corporate America for numerous Fortune 50 brands and startups, managing multi-billion dollar product and service lines with million dollar budgets, I also am the co-founder of an agency, Marketing Nutz , which has been working with clients big and small since 2010.

Management 60

Management Marketing Marketing Leadership 60

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 5, 2024

Is it the identity of its leadership, its governance structure, or the strength of its connections to communities and culture? He introduced us to an Indigenous philanthropy and community development advisor, David Turner, who helped us develop a grantmaking strategy and terms of reference for the grant program’s operation.

Philanthropy 126

Philanthropy Culture Foundations Leadership 126

Pam Moore

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

They may like to also talk with the people who work for the brand, use the brand's products or services or are simply part of the community surrounding the brand. I don’t know your brand, products, services, goals, objectives, customers or audience. You need to roll up your sleeves and develop your own strategy and plan.

Marketing 167

Marketing Marketing Advertising Values 167

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

A recent study found that employee-owned businesses, defined as employee ownership of at least 30 percent of business shares, which all employees having access to owning, are more productive, grow faster, and are less likely to go out of business than non-employee-owned businesses.

Public and Social Policy 121

Public and Social Policy Finance Governance Culture 121

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Posters at the conference highlighted that the first OFN conference in 1985 attracted 21 community development loan funds with a combined $27 million in assets under management. By contrast, according to the US SIF (Sustainable Investment Forum), the CDFI industry (including community development banks and credit unions) had $457.9

Community Development 115

Community Development Finance Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofit Administration and Development 115

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2023

The first Community Land Trust was and is in southwest Georgia, Albany, Georgia, founded in 1969 called New Communities Inc. But that was a group of African American families who came together to own, co-govern, control land resources and have an agricultural cooperative and really come together to self-determine.

Public and Social Policy 105

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Food Nonprofit governance and management 105