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How to Interrupt the Public Funds to Private Profits Pipeline: A California Story

NonProfit Quarterly

This happens daily when local governments park public funds in banks. Public funds amounting to billions of dollars are turned into private profits for services using your assets. The Peoples Money for the Peoples Needs What difference could a public bank make? It turns out, quite a lot. It turns out, quite a lot.

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Busting the Overhead Myth

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

How can nonprofits convince stakeholders to invest in capacity building? Capacity building is whatever is needed to bring a nonprofit to the next level of operational, programmatic, financial, or organizational maturity, so it may more effectively and efficiently advance its mission into the future. What can I do?

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How to Align Assets with Mission: Small Steps That Nonprofits Can Take

NonProfit Quarterly

Many in the nonprofit sector look at their income statements (also known as the “profit and loss” report), but unless you’re a chief financial officer or perform a similar role, you may spend far less time looking at your organization’s overall financial position. These assets help nonprofits deliver on their missions by generating income.

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How Guarantees Can Advance Community Development and Racial Equity

NonProfit Quarterly

While many foundations screen their endowment investments based on environmental, social, and governance factors, only a few optimize their investment strategies for mission impact. There is, however, a way for nonprofits to gain greater access to “flexible” capital and for foundations to generate a financial return.

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Public Land for Public Good: Preserving Miami’s Dominican Neighborhood

NonProfit Quarterly

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.

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A Social Movement Requires Momentum

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Showing Up In the United States, the public murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in 2020 sparked a national moment of reckoning with institutional racism, income inequality, and related failures inherent in US social and economic systems.

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From Impact Investing to “Impact-First” Investing—What Is the Field Learning?

NonProfit Quarterly

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.