NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Image credit: AndreyPopov on istock.com How can frontline communities access public funding for climate solutions? The same elements [needed for] BIPOC communities to benefit from public funding are also the most promising approaches to address…climate change. Learning from Community Groups So, what are we learning?

Governance 93

Governance Community Development Environmental Collaborations 93

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 15, 2025

billion) in assets under management and a 30-year track record, isnt wrong per se. That is the central conclusion of a new report released last December by Boston Impact Initiative , a nonprofit place-based investor in the Boston area and a promoter of the field nationwide. 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

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

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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

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

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Image credit: Drew Beamer on Unsplash For community development financial institutions (CDFIs), these are extraordinary times. One was the rise of nonprofits within the CDFI sector. An overwhelming majority of CDFIs today, however, are nonprofits. Grzywinski added that government regulators, too, have a role.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 115

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

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

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 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

APRIL 5, 2023

The complex is modest, but it houses an estimated 27 primarily immigrant-led small businesses and nonprofits. What makes the strip mall unique is its community ownership. Each community also has its own specific reasons for seeking community ownership. Paul, New Orleans, Anchorage, and Los Angeles.

Public and Nonprofit Management 104

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

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Image credit: Christian Ouellet on istock.com Financing challenges often stymie nonprofits. This reality became starkly evident in the journey of the Center for Habitat Reconstruction (CRH) seeking supplemental funding to keep a large public contract it had won. Yet even after having been awarded an $11.2

Non-Profits 119

Non-Profits Finance Collaborations Public and Nonprofit Management 119

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The home you can afford also determines the neighborhood you can live in—a neighborhood with access to public transportation that can connect you with jobs and opportunities, grocery stores with nutritious foods, and safe spaces to exercise or one filled with pollutants, high-traffic roads, and crime, all of which have an impact on health.

Health 105

Health Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Philanthropy 105

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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Image credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” W hat would a nonprofit sector that pursued economic justice look like? The other five work for nonprofit intermediary organizations. Two of them—Dr.

Public and Social Policy 131

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

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Social housing is housing that is publicly owned or under democratic community control—permanently affordable, and off-limits to profiteers. It encompasses co-op, community land trust (CLT), mutual , and public housing, and can include a host of new and existing publicly supported models. What is Social Housing? As of 2023, 65.7

Public and Social Policy 129

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

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 26, 2023

Image Credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” At the height of the pandemic, I was swept up in a titanic battle being waged over the right to a city. 1 That city was New Haven, Connecticut.

Education 96

Education Education Universities Public and Nonprofit Management 96

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In the nonprofit sector, it requires transcending the standard hierarchical funder-nonprofit dynamics and replacing them with norms of power sharing and reciprocity. Unlike many funding opportunities, qualifying projects did not need to have nonprofit tax status or be fiscally sponsored by a nonprofit.

Nonprofit governance and management 120

Nonprofit governance and management Food Public and Nonprofit Management Environmental 120

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

My whole trajectory through the nonprofit sector and analysis of race and power comes from working with those organizations and having the reality of that work hit up against the visions for liberation that I had. And we were relying on nonprofits that at the same time were losing their balance sheets. I kept thinking, yes!

Public and Social Policy 104

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance Public and Nonprofit Management 104

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Of the food grown in the delta and the overall $6 billion in food that is grown in Mississippi, 90 percent is exported, as a 2014 report from the nonprofit, Crossroads Resource Center , documents. TAGI grows and sells fruit and vegetables while centering community engagement. They come with their own challenges.

Food 125

Food Agriculture Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 125

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 85

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Poverty Civil Society 85

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Back in 2019, I published a study on what I called “cooperative cities” in which I wrote about how local governments in a dozen US cities create enabling environments for developing and sustaining worker cooperatives. Only a handful of municipal leaders at the time referred to this work as “community wealth building.”

Finance 111

Finance Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Education 111

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 12, 2023

This question was front of mind when, in February 2020, right before the COVID lockdown began, the Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative , co-hosted an “innovation encuentro.” Notably absent is a focus on public K-12 education, which educates nearly 50 million Americans a year. Ditto for coding and software development.

Curriculum and Teaching 104

Curriculum and Teaching Education Education Public and Nonprofit Management 104

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

Image credit: Yannick Lowery / www.severepaper.com Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s fall 2023 issue, “How Do We Create Home in the Future? 2 It has been edited for publication here. 2 It has been edited for publication here. Two things changed how wealth was managed. The year is 2053.

Public and Social Policy 128

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Taxation 128

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

“RULER OF THE EARTH” BY YUET-LAM TSANG Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” How do social movements come to make the language of economic systems change their own? Nonprofits often play quasi-governmental roles.

Public and Social Policy 88

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 88

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2023

All Moderated by Steve Dubb of the Nonprofit Quarterly. Below you’ll find the graphic recording, audio, video, and transcript from “The Imaginal Cells of the Solidarity Economy: Community Ownership” presented by the U.S. Steve Dubb: [00:02:31] Welcome to Imagining Cells of the Solidarity Economy: Community Ownership.

Public and Social Policy 102

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Food Nonprofit governance and management 102

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Most government housing funding is spent on subsidizing mortgages—primarily for the well-to-do. Underfunded public housing was segregated away from desirable suburban land, where prospective, mostly White homeowners were lifted into the middle class through property ownership.

Public and Social Policy 142

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development 142

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. Between 2014 and 2022 alone, assets under management in the CDFI sector expanded more than sevenfold. billion in assets by 2022.

Community Development 112

Community Development Finance Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofit Administration and Development 112

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

Public policy wasn’t really a part of our culture. With the WORK Act, tens of millions of dollars in government resources will be disbursed to employee-ownership centers around the country, fundamentally changing the playing field for worker-owners, freelancers, and cooperative innovators. Why Prioritize Public Policy and Advocacy?

Public Policy 88

Public Policy Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 88

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

Image Credit: cottonbro studio on pexels.com It’s not often that a body of work comes along that makes us ask big questions about the nonprofit sector. Claire Dunning’s new book, Nonprofit Neighborhoods , is one. In it, she not only traces the development of the nonprofit sector.

Public and Social Policy 122

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Governance 122

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Darmstadt, a city of more than 168,000, is striving to balance the influx of newcomers while also managing the social and economic implications of diversifying populations. Yulia Ihnatieva, 42, cooks okroshka, a Ukrainian summer soup, inside her government-sponsored apartment in Darmstadt, Germany in July. It is rarely straightforward.

Nonprofit governance and management 72

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 72

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 29, 2024

We keep turning to this move of going public with the blow-up. So, whenever I’ve seen someone taking a public stance of Palestine, I reach out and try to make sure that I’m connected to them in some way. It has been really beautiful to watch this local community develop a choir. I see this in my community.

Culture 111

Culture Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management 111