NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The nonprofit sector, along with community-based mutual aid networks , stepped up to meet immediate needs. If we want nonprofits to support us in the next crisis, they must have sufficient resources. And to know what nonprofits need to do their jobs effectively, we must ask them directly. It wasn’t for-profit companies.

Governance 96

Governance Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit Administration and Development Finance 96

The Charity CFO

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Successful nonprofits and for-profit businesses alike use a variety of key performance indicators (KPIs) to help track their organizations performance. This guide will explore some of the most common nonprofit KPIsincluding how to calculate themto help you pick the right KPIs for your nonprofit.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 12, 2023

As students explored, developers are no longer focusing on the beachfront land that South Florida is famous for. Students also engaged in community asset mapping, an approach to community development that focuses on existing resources and strengths. Overall, the course team is excited for what comes next.

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Environmental Education Education Community Development 116

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Some leading emerging strategies that we found from across the nation include the following: Leveraging philanthropy to ensure community control of public dollars In Memphis, TN, the Center for Transforming Communities (CTC) cultivates “neighborhood democracies” through place-based organizing.

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Governance Community Development Environmental Collaborations 78

Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

By Greg Fine – a marketing consultant that works to elevate nonprofit marketing impact, revitalize giving campaigns, and bring energy and awareness to nonprofit brands and their mission. Artificial intelligence is simplifying the nonprofit slog work that ties up enormous banks of time and resources. Please cite sources.”

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Nonprofit Administration and Development Children Nonprofits Collaborations 83

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 114

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2023

How can nonprofits help immigrants build community wealth? Nonprofit and public sector programs to promote savings are common. One of the more common forms is the matched savings account, often referred to as the individual development account, or IDA. Let the organizers develop and refine their strategy.

Finance 103

Finance Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management Construction 103

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 108

Finance Law Governance Entrepreneurship 108

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Monitor Legislation that Impacts Your Nonprofit and the Children and Families You Serve Nonprofits must be legislative watchdogs for three key reasons: Impact awareness: New laws affect funding, operations, and beneficiary eligibility. Advocacy opportunity: Proactive engagement shapes legislation to better serve communities.

Children 52

Children Nonprofit Administration and Development Law Education 52

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 13, 2023

We had our first in-person meeting with Massport about idling in February, where we asked for more regular collaboration and for forums to be inclusive and open to the community. We also need our government agencies to protect us.

Race and Ethnicity 118

Race and Ethnicity Health Environmental Children 118

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Also, online communication skills are lacking at many NGOs compared with the online marketing skills at e-commerce sites. 4) Tell the Nonprofit Tech for Good community about Donadora: Are the donors predominately Mexican? Can donors outside of Mexico give to campaigns on Donadora? 81% of donors in Mexico volunteer.

Disaster Relief 76

Disaster Relief Nonprofit Administration and Development Social Enterprise Social Enterprise 76

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 22, 2025

Image Credit: Brian Koellish on iStock Nearly a third of US communities are CDFI deserts. In these turbulent times, many leaders of the nations growing network of community development financial institutions (CDFIs)which now collectively manage $468 billion in assets, a 615 percent increase over the past decadehave high hopes.

Finance 69

Finance Nonprofit Administration and Development Poverty Public and Nonprofit Management 69

Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And I operate a grants and fundraising consulting business, and we support nonprofits all over the country, started off primarily with those in the DMV area but it’s expanded since then. So really just trying to see how nonprofits have managed and how you’ve really been able to thrive. . And nonprofits are no exception.

Nonprofit governance and management 117

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development Foundations 117

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In 1979, I discovered financial cooperatives—namely, credit unions—and I joined the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions in 1980. Michael McCray: I was born into community development finance. So, there was kind of a stigma to credit unions serving low-income communities. Why is this?

Insurance 102

Insurance Finance Community Development Poverty 102

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 16, 2024

The interview that follows explores the history of the Clayborn Temple, the project to restore it, and the vision of Troutman and her colleagues to use the temple as a hub for developing a community-based economy in Memphis that i s Black-owned, Black-governed, and which sustains a thriving culture rooted in the Black imagination.

Governance 117

Governance Culture Construction Community Development 117

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Cliff Rosenthal was the executive director of the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions (now called Inclusiv ) from 1983 until 2012. The federation is a national association of credit unions largely run and owned by people of color serving low-income and primarily BIPOC communities.

Finance 82

Finance Nonprofit Administration and Development Community Development Governance 82

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 122

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 122

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. None of this was an accident.

Public and Social Policy 103

Public and Social Policy Poverty Children Law 103

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. MEGA’s efforts have expanded to include youth leadership and mentorship, community engagement, and health education.

Food 119

Food Agriculture Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 119

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

Image Credit: Sivani Bandaru on unsplash.com The common headline in the nonprofit press has been simple: Giving declined in 2022 for only the fourth time in 40 years. Nonprofit reliance on wealthy donors has other, perhaps less obvious implications. For further details, see this recent NPQ article ). The short answer is: “Unlikely.”

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Nonprofit Administration and Development Universities Philanthropy Education 84

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. There was a lot of administrative work, but then I also got to sit in on some of the meetings. I kept thinking, yes!

Public and Social Policy 95

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance Public and Nonprofit Management 95

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 8, 2025

By partnering with community development financial institutions (CDFIs)mission-driven lenders focused on underserved communitiesand community banks, BND channels taxpayer dollars back to the neighborhoods theyre meant to uplift, not into shareholders pockets. percent return on investment in 2023. The need is undeniable.

Finance 136

Finance Nonprofit Administration and Development Governance Energy 136

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 73

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 73

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 90

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Food Nonprofit governance and management 90

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 101

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NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Social housing is not just about providing shelter but creating high-quality, permanently affordable housing across a range of incomes that are owned or controlled by a public agency, a nonprofit, or a cooperative of tenants themselves. There is also resistance within the affordable housing community.

Public and Social Policy 132

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NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 7, 2023

Image Credit: edgeeffectmedia.com on unsplash.com Leah Rothstein has been a consultant to nonprofit housing developers, local government, and private firms. We interviewed housing policy experts, fair housing experts, and community development experts. This is a process that is required by the Fair Housing Act.

Law 98

Law Governance Nonprofit Administration and Development Poverty 98

MNA Association

OCTOBER 16, 2024

We know that decisions made in Helena and in Washington, DC have an enormous impact on our work as nonprofits. We also know that partnering with government and the public sector is critical to advance our missions and build thriving communities. We are excited to share the responses with you in our Nonprofit Voter Guide.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofits 98

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

5 This history of successful community-building economic development positions pro-solidarity economy efforts, uniquely, to engage the state in ways that materially transfer resources to grassroots communities and build worker power—and with it, our own base of economic power.

Public Policy 73

Public Policy Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 73

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 29, 2024

But then she is part of an administration that is sending billions of dollars advancing their devastation. amb: I started doing this election time conversation series because the narrative I have had is that the left is incredibly fractured, and the nonprofit world is incredibly fractured. So, I was asking: “Where are we at?

Culture 95

Culture Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management 95