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 104

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Non-Profits 104

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 10, 2023

The conference brings together hundreds of community activists, government officials, and bank community development officers. To assess risk, the newly formed Federal Housing Administration hired the University of Michigan’s Ernest Fisher and Prudential’s Frederick Babcock.

Finance 106

Finance Law Governance Entrepreneurship 106

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 Universities can also play a vital role as economic anchors for co-op endeavors).

Food 105

Food Construction Public and Social Policy Governance 105

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 24, 2023

Organized by the Labor Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Wellspring Cooperative , a worker co-op network based in nearby Springfield, the conference set to develop deeper ties between unions and worker co-ops—and to advance organizing for a solidarity economy. As Akuno put it, I am bringing in 110 kids.

Education 133

Education Education Governance Food 133

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

As a result, the North Star for both organizing and giving needs to be enhancing governing power. Notes Sulma Arias is executive director of both People’s Action Institute and People’s Action and Manuel Pastor is Director of the Equity Research Institute at the University of Southern California.

Philanthropy 130

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Health 130

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 103

Public and Social Policy Public Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Culture 103

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 107

Food Finance Community Development Culture 107

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

we all know nonprofits rely on a combination of government grants, philanthropic donations, and earned income to support their operations. Provide diversity and inclusion training for all staff and board members, to increase awareness and understanding of the issues faced by underserved communities.

Leadership 110

Leadership Public and Social Policy Poverty Race and Ethnicity 110

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 11, 2023

Anna Kim at McGill University and I pursued this question through in-depth fieldwork in two Detroit-based business incubators, which sought to revitalize Detroit through entrepreneurship but employed contrasting approaches. Why does the method that worked in Silicon Valley, Boston, Austin, Seattle, or Boulder not work for places like Detroit?

Entrepreneurship 118

Entrepreneurship Collaborations Food Finance 118

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. In 2018, I gathered a group of nine people from the community—small business owners; residents; nonprofit, school, and university leaders—to discuss how to preserve our beloved neighborhood.

Public and Nonprofit Management 81

Public and Nonprofit Management Community Development Nonprofit governance and management Cultural Diversity 81

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 18, 2024

The questions to ask in identifying this band of the community are Who has social capital—potentially outsized social capital - to make this issue better or worse? In neighborhood revitalization, local government, business leaders, and foundations with a focus on neighborhoods might make up this group.

Philanthropy 109

Philanthropy Children Activism Leadership 109

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. Video is an opportunity for NGOs to gain a foothold in the media universe. Finally, digitalization is growing fast in Mexico. are quickly replacing TV. 40% attend fundraising events.

Disaster Relief 76

Disaster Relief Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management Social Enterprise 76

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 13, 2023

Aisha Benson , CEO of the Nonprofit Finance Fund , emphasized the long-term impact of redlining , a policy of legalized housing lending discrimination backed by the federal government from the 1930s until the passage of the Fair Housing Act of 1968. Hollenback argued there is a need to “take the same approach, but for community.”

Finance 82

Finance Homelessness Healthcare Foundations 82

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 118

Philanthropy Culture Foundations Leadership 118

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Typically, a one-megawatt solar array can power at least 400 homes for a year at a cost of about $4 million—making this cost-prohibitive to most community developers. What are some practical strategies for building local capacity and breaking a colonial mindset around community energy production?

Energy 107

Energy Environmental Community Development Public Policy 107

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 30, 2024

This focus on living with dignity creates a broad scope for innovations in the dimensions of health and well-being, education and skills, economic activities, and governance. While communities may initially be dependent on several external organizations, over time, communities will have to own their development.

Health 88

Health Public and Social Policy Medical Governance 88

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 117

Community Development Finance Production Governance 117

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Zirkel on wikimedia Can universities be effective community builders? Observers going back to the early 20th-century US philosopher John Dewey have also contended that universities play an essential role in creating a democratic citizenry. But do universities actually produce local solutions? Well, it depends.

Universities 92

Universities Curriculum and Teaching Participation and motivation Culture 92

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 26, 2023

I found myself in the middle of a David and Goliath struggle between the citizens of the town and its biggest economic powerhouse: Yale University. 2 While immersed in organizing, this powerful coalition of residents, university wage-workers, city alders, and students were also reading. 1 That city was New Haven, Connecticut.

Education 78

Education Education Universities Public and Nonprofit Management 78

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 118

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 118

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Black women who volunteered for the Black Panther Party—like Vanetta Molson-Turner , a registered nurse who contributed her time and expertise to the Black Panther Party’s Community Survival Programs —pooled their resources to serve their people in response to underinvestment and discrimination.

Philanthropy 113

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Healthcare Universities 113

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 90

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance Public and Nonprofit Management 90

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.

Food 116

Food Agriculture Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 116

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 99

Public and Social Policy Poverty Children Law 99

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 90

Finance Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Education 90

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 12, 2023

Is there a Seed Commons version of Project Destined in the works, and if not, can it be developed soon? Not only are workforce development and university education required to sustain regional cooperative economies at scale, but this education should begin at an early age.

Curriculum and Teaching 98

Curriculum and Teaching Education Education Public and Nonprofit Management 98

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 8, 2025

At the end of 2019, the California Public Banking Act (AB 857) opened the doors for local governments to establish public banks. In the East Bay , multiple city governments are working together to capitalize on a regional public bank. Just months later, the pandemic brought the world to a standstill, slowing progress. percent to 3.5

Finance 131

Finance Nonprofit Administration and Development Governance Energy 131

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

The federal government and its welfare state programs—often known as the New Deal, and including federal programs and reforms such as Social Security and the Works Progress Administration, were forged in the world-historical political events of the first half of the 20th century and the rise of a powerful labor movement.

Public and Social Policy 68

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 68

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2023

Listen to the Cities@Tufts Podcast (or on the app of your choice): “The Imaginal Cells of the Solidarity Economy: Community Ownership” Transcript [The timestamps in the transcript correspond with the audio version of this lecture.] So there’s the like asset ownership and then there’s governance and that goes quite deep.

Public and Social Policy 85

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Food Nonprofit governance and management 85

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Most government housing funding is spent on subsidizing mortgages—primarily for the well-to-do. Building on successful experiments in cooperative housing built by labor unions, they pushed for the type of large-scale, universal housing programs germinating during the interwar period in European cities like Vienna.

Public and Social Policy 127

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development 127

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 112

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Governance 112

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

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. What if that scale of resources flowed to our communities instead of to Wall Street?

Public Policy 68

Public Policy Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 68

The NonProfit Times

MAY 1, 2024

House lawmakers requesting earmarks from money allocated to the federal Department of Transportation and the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (T-HUD) 2025 Economic Development Initiative will be restricted to doing so only for state, local and tribal governments and public colleges and universities.

Education 59

Education Education Community Development Governance 59