NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Image credit: Ahmad Odeh on Unsplash In this interview, the CEO of a California-based CDFI offers her observations on what her work as a theater director has taught her about nonprofit management. Sara Razavi: Within the CDFI [ community development financial institution ] space, we are a nonprofit loan fund.

Nonprofit Management 124

Nonprofit Management Management Sociology Collaborations 124

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Here are a few viable approaches that we have encountered: Collaborate with mission-aligned institutions : This might include partnerships with community development financial institutions (CDFIs), Minority Depository Institutions (MDIs), or local credit unions. What might building strategic relationships look like?

Finance 119

Finance Agriculture Environmental Nonprofit governance and management 119

Ann Green

APRIL 7, 2015

You spend hours in front of the monitor managing the campaign and responding to donors via email and social networks. Create community. Develop a community. Lori Finch is the Vice President of Community Giving, Kimbia and the General Manager of Give Local America. Don’t let that work go to waste.

Universities 188

Universities Finance Community Development Foundations 188

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

MAY 23, 2024

However, when managed wisely, overhead expenses, including capacity building, are vital investments that pave the way for a nonprofit’s growth and success. Get Started About the Author: Tyler Adams, MNLM, CNP Associate Director of Development, Corporate & Community Development – University of Iowa Center for Advancement.

Public and Social Policy 234

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 234

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

For years, I have directed IFF , a community development financial institution that specializes in nonprofit facilities lending. A Hierarchy of Nonprofit Facilities’ Needs After 30 years in community development, I have come to think of nonprofit facilities as existing on a continuum of need. It is too hot or cold.

Values 122

Values Community Development Psychology Healthcare 122

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 25, 2023

Developing a sound approach to managing these assets is part of the fiduciary responsibility of nonprofit boards. A salient example is of organizations that are focused on community development but invest in mass incarceration. These assets help nonprofits deliver on their missions by generating income.

Public and Social Policy 126

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

Pam Moore

OCTOBER 3, 2016

They are often thrown to the wild pack of tweeting craziness as their management teams and leadership know less than they do in understanding how to drive business value using these new social tools and methodologies. We must understand mindsets of our stakeholders, management and team members. Click To Tweet.

Marketing 167

Marketing Marketing Management Foundations 167

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 29, 2023

This speaks directly to the central paradox: While the traditional approach to money management is part of the problem in philanthropy and impact investing, chosen strategies have also played an outsized role in where we are. What if DAFs and foundations relied on fund allocators and managers who are proximate to communities and their issues?

Nonprofit governance and management 119

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Community Development 119

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Temple ) and a community development financial institution ( Communities Unlimited ) are teaming to develop bottom-up structural solutions to building rural capacity. When we talk about economic development in East Texas, we often like to start with a the figure below, which comes from a T.L.L.

Entrepreneurship 126

Entrepreneurship Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations 126

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

MARCH 9, 2022

Despite all of these perks (and much to my mother’s dismay) in the summer of 2014, I made the jump from this well-resourced corporate marketing gig to working at a small community development nonprofit with an equally small budget. I was suddenly faced with aging technology and a budget under $5,000 – including printing costs.

Marketing 154

Marketing Marketing Advertising Production 154

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 3, 2024

In Washington, DC, the city’s Department of Housing and Community Development reports that 18,300 units of affordable housing of this kind became unaffordable between 2006 and 2017. This is no small matter. This loss of affordability is related to other challenges that DC renters and the city have been facing. But how does this work?

Values 137

Values Public and Nonprofit Management Construction Finance 137

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Whether we are working in community development, food insecurity, or racial justice, our fundraising must be grounded in our organization’s mission as we work to center the community we seek to serve and develop measurable impact and progress. . The answer should simply be “ For the love of humankind.” .

Sociology 164

Sociology Non-Profit Management Political Science Non-Profits 164

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 17, 2024

We’re so concerned…with saving the property in the first place that we often forget we need long-term support for building management and sustainability.” And then funding for tenant organizing, so that they can actually have the capacity to organize to buy their building or negotiate. The third piece is financing.

Finance 128

Finance Construction Management Education 128

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Image credit: Drew Beamer on Unsplash For community development financial institutions (CDFIs), these are extraordinary times. A Call for a Coordinated Approach As Houghton noted, both for-profit and nonprofit lenders are needed to meet the economic needs of low- and moderate-income communities. It was a nonprofit.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 119

Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management Finance Public and Nonprofit Management 119

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 116

Manufacturing Finance Nonprofit governance and management Law 116

GiveGab

JUNE 14, 2022

Specialized nonprofit case management software enables these organizations to automate processes and optimize the services that their clients depend on. In essence, it gives them a central place to track cases, manage programs, and keep client data secure. Start with case management software that aligns with your needs.

Management 52

Management Technology Sociology Urban development 52

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 111

Food Public and Nonprofit Management Medical Community Development 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 111

Finance Community Development Non-Profits Nonprofit governance and management 111

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.

Public and Nonprofit Management 98

Public and Nonprofit Management Community Development Nonprofit governance and management Cultural Diversity 98

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

Pam Moore

JULY 8, 2019

It Doesn’t Offer Social Management Features . A chunk of them, however, don’t offer true management tools, and those can get you in a bind. Imagine trying to manage six company profiles and only looking at big picture analytics of how many likes or comments your posts get instead of seeing what people say. Those are a given. .

Marketing 113

Marketing Marketing Management Activism 113

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

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 111

Philanthropy Culture Agriculture Community Development 111

Pam Moore

JUNE 2, 2017

20+ years experience in B2B and B2c in varied industries across enterprise technology (hardware, software and services), beauty, education, risk management, real estate, manufacturing, ecommerce, franchising, hospitality and loads more. 1+ million connections across social, we walk the walk! million downloads to date.

Manufacturing 167

Manufacturing Advertising Marketing Marketing 167

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. The protest also garnered support from the 21st Street Collective, a tenant union from Central Long Beach composed of HUD-assisted tenants who were facing harassment from their manager.

Law 98

Law Community Development Cultural Diversity Children 98

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 105

Curriculum and Teaching Finance Children Recruitment 105

The Charity CFO

DECEMBER 23, 2024

This type of revenue provides flexibility in managing operational expenses, program development, and other essential activities. They can also indicate an effective volunteer management program. This could be a sign that your volunteer management practices arent as effective as before.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 52

Nonprofit Administration and Development Retention Nonprofits Health 52

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 122

Food Finance Community Development Culture 122

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Participating students learn about controlled environment agricultural management and the underlying technologies—eg, sensors, data collection, and data analytics—and the operations and maintenance of an indoor hydroponic farm. The figure below describes the innovative hub and its components.

Food 145

Food Agriculture Poverty Public and Social Policy 145

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 9, 2024

To find out, NPQ interviewed Malik Kenyatta Yakini, cofounder of the Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network (DBCFSN); Lanay Gilbert-Williams, current co-op board president; and Akil Talley, the co-op’s first full-time permanent general manager. Co-op membership has grown rapidly since the store opened.

Food 134

Food Nonprofit governance and management Finance Governance 134

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2023

Image credit: Chris Briggs on unsplash.com Dr. Akilah Watkins, who previously led the Center for Community Progress and has been a leader in the CEO Circle, a group of community development leaders of color, became president and CEO of Independent Sector in January 2023. I don’t want that just to stay in community development.

Civil Society 98

Civil Society Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Social Policy Leadership 98

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Building for the Future At the conference, Kate Khatib, co-executive director of Seed Commons, a leading community development financial institution (CDFI) lender to worker co-ops, called on the movement to set the audacious goal of expanding to one million worker co-op members and $100 billion in revenue in the next 10 years.

Public and Social Policy 128

Public and Social Policy Public Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Culture 128

Getting Attention

AUGUST 3, 2012

2) Awareness and Community Relations Manager. 3) Communications Coordinator , The Immunization Partnership (Houston, TX). 6) Manager, Community Development , Arthritis Foundation (Philadelphia, PA). 7) Marketing and Sales Intern and Media and Communications Intern. Website Manager.

Public and Nonprofit Management 61

Public and Nonprofit Management Food Energy Associations 61

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Connie Binkowitz, director of development and external policy at CTC, described how, in 2020, the organization received a grant from the Memphis Division of Housing and Community Development (DHCD). This grant came out of a program supported by federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) dollars.

Governance 106

Governance Community Development Environmental Collaborations 106

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 24, 2023

It was a smaller autonomous school called the School of Social Justice and Community Development. Company management, Smalls said, “plastered the buildings with anti-union propaganda. That day management got on their ass—we were there. Akuno explained that 20 years ago, he was working in Oakland, California.

Education 141

Education Education Governance Food 141

Getting Attention

MARCH 22, 2012

1) Business Development Manager and. Marketing Campaigns Manager. 2) Communications Associate. 3) Communications Associate and Director of Development and Communications. 4) Communications Coordinator , EMILY’S List (Washington, D.C.). 13) Event Coordinator and Program Manager.

Marketing 58

Marketing Marketing Homelessness Associations 58