NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Image credit: Getty Images on Unsplash Consider a food bank discovering that its operating reserves are in banks that finance industrial agriculture, the very system contributing to food insecurity and displacing small community farms. These scenarios arent hypothetical. Second, educate the staff and board.

Finance 118

Finance Agriculture Environmental Nonprofit governance and management 118

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

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 13, 2023

The Value of Faith Institutions Several church leaders—both from Jackson and beyond—spoke at a plenary session about the challenges and opportunities facing faith institutions. They provide social services, healthcare screening, workforce development, and education.” Stephanie Swepson-Twitty of Eagle Market Streets Development Corp.

Finance 105

Finance Homelessness Healthcare Foundations 105

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

This, in turn, politically polarized many middle-class property owners, dependent on their home values for stability, to oppose any policy perceived as a threat to property appreciation. Seattle organizers won big at the ballot to create a municipal social housing developer for new mixed-income developments.

Public and Social Policy 143

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development 143

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. In a massive charitable response, vast networks of locally supported food pantries, coat drives, homeless shelters, community clinics, and free schools have been launched and sustained.

Public and Social Policy 132

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

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

Image Credit: Vyacheslav Dumchev on istock This is the second article in NPQ ’s series titled Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. In Long Beach, CA, Latinx renters face increasing threats of gentrification and displacement.

Law 98

Law Cultural Diversity Community Development Children 98

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Image credit: coffeekai on istock.com Community is one of humanity’s great achievements. Yet community development corporations , a $28 billion sector of over 6,200 nonprofits that support local community economic development, are largely invisible in the national conversation. That was part of the problem.

Community Development 135

Community Development Public and Social Policy Governance Production 135