NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 7, 2023

Coproduced by Partners for Rural Transformation , a coalition of six regional community development financial institutions, and NPQ , authors highlight efforts to address multi-generational poverty in Appalachia, the rural West, Indian Country, South Texas, and the Mississippi Delta. A single modular unit or “box” is 288 square feet.

Poverty 119

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 3, 2025

billion; and co-ops and mutuals around Quebec, Canada, contribute $50 billion to Canadas gross domestic product. Today, Northern Italys co-op sector has gross revenues of about $6.1 billion; the Mondragon co-op ecosystem in the Basque region of Spain has gross revenues of about $14.5 Each was started by just a few people.

Nonprofit governance and management 118

Nonprofit governance and management Governance Insurance Social Enterprise 118

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 17, 2024

We know that the racial homeownership gap is, in large measure, the product of historic redlining , as well as past and ongoing discrimination. A Community Finance Solution While barriers to homeownership persist for households of color, these barriers are possible to overcome.

Finance 131

Finance Production Insurance Values 131

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Mapping a Just Transition from an Extractive Economy At the end of 2020, People’s Economy Lab convened about 20 BIPOC community leaders to create a roadmap for a just transition to a regenerative economy in the Greater Seattle area. This process closes the food waste loop, keeping financial and natural resources in the community.

Nonprofit governance and management 124

Nonprofit governance and management Food Public and Nonprofit Management Environmental 124

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. Frankly, it is tiring to plead with outsiders to sell their products here.

Food 110

Food Public and Nonprofit Management Medical Community Development 110

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Local government wins because properties are back in productive use, generating taxes. The community wins because there is now permanently affordable housing that can forestall gentrification. While these objectives differ, there is a clear overlap of priorities and opportunities to advance shared equitable community development goals.

Public and Social Policy 116

Public and Social Policy Community Development Governance Agriculture 116

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 1, 2023

Based in Oakland, CA, and launched in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the cooperative is forging a table of Black women-led, community-based organizations so Black cultural production across the city can thrive. BAMBD CDC is an arts-based organization invested in community development writ large.

Culture 127

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 25, 2023

A salient example is of organizations that are focused on community development but invest in mass incarceration. However, along with academic and industry research to the contrary, this line of thinking ignores the fact that you may be undermining your mission through your investments.

Public and Social Policy 126

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

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. Even though Washington, DC, has lost many affordable housing units, its community ownership legislation has helped stem the tide.

Values 137

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Pam Moore

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

They may like to also talk with the people who work for the brand, use the brand's products or services or are simply part of the community surrounding the brand. I don’t know your brand, products, services, goals, objectives, customers or audience. You need to roll up your sleeves and develop your own strategy and plan.

Marketing 167

Marketing Marketing Advertising Values 167

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 8, 2022

VF enables large-scale agricultural production in environments where space and soil are limited. Instead, most DEI efforts are led by human resource professionals with limited understanding of communities like Camden. We are part of a broader national movement for food justice, urban agriculture, and sustainable development.

Food 145

Food Agriculture Poverty Public and Social Policy 145

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 26, 2023

Image Credit: Bruno Guerrero on unsplash.com This is the third article in NPQ ’s series titled Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. Among the coalition participants is the organization I work for, the Latino Economic Development Corporation.

Construction 98

Construction Community Development Governance Environmental 98

Anedot

APRIL 8, 2025

Candidate Qualifications: The ED is someone who has successfully led and managed an organization, ideally in the nonprofit or governmental sectors, with a preference for community focused servitude. They are a collaborative leader with the ability to motivate staff and diverse constituencies.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 52

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

The animating principle of Kresge’s Arts & Culture Program is equitable Creative Placemaking, which elevates arts, culture, and community-engaged design as central elements of community development and planning. Areas served: US. Knight Foundation. Areas served: Tennessee (*specific counties only – listed on website).

Culture 110

Culture Foundations Education Education 110

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

Pam Moore

JUNE 14, 2017

Related Stories Social Media Hashtags in a Nutshell How to Use Social Media and Influencer Marketing to Launch a New Business, Product or App Power of Emotion: 8 Foundations to a More Human Brand. This Social Zoom Factor podcast episode is sponsored by the following: . Freshbooks. People buy from people they know, like and trust.

Foundations 166

Foundations Marketing Marketing Values 166

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The West Holmes Community Development Organization, which traces its origins to one of these farms, modernized their cooperative farm and started a farmer’s market , which now forms part of a youth-led, sustainable food system for Mileston and Holmes County. They come with their own challenges.

Food 126

Food Agriculture Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 126

Pam Moore

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

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Advertising 164

Advertising Marketing Marketing Values 164

Pam Moore

JUNE 2, 2017

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Manufacturing 167

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 11, 2023

For example, one founder who initially wanted to open a store for reclaimed pet products came out of weeks of reflection sessions with a clear vision for her venture: a service that helps her customers address relational problems with their animal companions. This different scale of venture growth impacted the city in different ways.

Entrepreneurship 130

Entrepreneurship Collaborations Food Finance 130

Pam Moore

AUGUST 31, 2018

Because not only did I spend 15 years working in corporate America for numerous Fortune 50 brands and startups, managing multi-billion dollar product and service lines with million dollar budgets, I also am the co-founder of an agency, Marketing Nutz , which has been working with clients big and small since 2010.

Management 147

Management Marketing Marketing Leadership 147

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 12, 2023

Image Credit: Abe Camacho on unsplash.com This article introduces a new NPQ series, Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. Latinx and other immigrant community commercial corridors allow residents to access foods and products native to their country of origin and, therefore, help preserve their cultural identity.

Culture 98

Culture Construction Community Development Education 98

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Of the 20 lenders, 10 are community development financial institutions (CDFIs), five are banks, three are credit unions, and two are tribal-affiliated institutions. One day, a national grocery chain calls—they love your products and offer to buy them! They want to commit for three years. The equipment costs $78,000.

Insurance 125

Insurance Production Foundations Community Development 125

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Universities, as Baldwin has detailed , turn their research into lucrative commercial goods and patents in a range of fields, from the pharmaceutical industries and software products to health services and military defense weaponry.

Universities 118

Universities Curriculum and Teaching Participation and motivation Culture 118

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 9, 2023

Image credit: Kenny Eliason on unsplash.com This is the fifth article in NPQ ’s series titled Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. The Latinx community successfully organized and resisted this. MEDA, a community organization formed in 1973, was a product of this activism.

Culture 97

Culture Cultural Diversity Public and Nonprofit Management Community Development 97

Pam Moore

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

A sales and marketing conversion funnel describes the stages a buyer of any product or service goes through leading to a purchase. It is the journey of the buyer researching, discovering, choosing and finally purchasing a product or service. The top of funnel is less about YOU, your product and services. Be patient.

Marketing 78

Marketing Marketing Advertising Production 78

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The climate crisis is not only a product of greenhouse gas emissions… but also of an ideological shift that was imposed by colonization and capitalism to justify violation of sacred land-, water-, and airways—domination that taught Americans to speak of “resources” instead of “relatives.”.

Nonprofit governance and management 140

Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Environmental Food 140

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 5, 2024

We accept unsolicited applications, but by actively engaging current grantees in referring and evaluating the proposals of future grantees, our process facilitates a more systemic view of the problem we are trying to solve, as well as a productive collaboration between groups working on the problem.

Philanthropy 126

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Here, it is important to recognize the vital role that access to financial products and services—everything from opening a bank account to building credit or accessing loans—plays in the economy. Credit history is a key determinant of credit scores, which are then used to get approval for financial products like credit cards and loans.

Finance 80

Finance Culture Foundations Public and Social Policy 80

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 27, 2023

Challenges posed to businesses include a lack of access to farm irrigation and facilities in which to store perishable products. Unreliable electricity also limits the growth of many Nigerian businesses and, indeed, the country’s private sector as a whole, leading to annual economic losses of around $26.2

Energy 111

Energy Children Construction Insurance 111

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

percent of the country’s 63 million people living in poverty, gross domestic product growth that slowed to 0.6 For example, Limpopo returned over US $6 million in unspent grants —money earmarked for community development—back to the Treasury from 2022 to 2023. With an estimated 55.5

Philanthropy 92

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Poverty Civil Society 92

Pam Moore

APRIL 1, 2019

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Activism 97

Activism Values Marketing Marketing 97

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 2, 2023

Image Credit: Daniel Xavier on pexels This is the fourth article in NPQ ’s series titled Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. How does a small Latinx community organize itself to support homegrown businesses? Another team of Latinx business owners in our community are Alma Hernández and her husband Christian Morales.

Participation and motivation 52

Participation and motivation Nonprofit governance and management Community Development Leadership 52

Pam Moore

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

There are so many brands both big and small that fall to spammy sales tactics, pushing products and services, coupon codes and constant in your face promotion. How to leverage a content marketing calendar to increase efficiency and productivity in creating content. In this 25 minute podcast you will learn: .

Marketing 60

Marketing Marketing Production Values 60

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

The restoration includes space for sausage production, with the Vaucresson family operating a café on the site. As for initiatives underway in the Twin Cities and Los Angeles, both efforts are nascent, but both groups also appear to have developed a strong set of partners, making these efforts promising.

Public and Nonprofit Management 105

Public and Nonprofit Management Participation and motivation Nonprofit governance and management Poverty 105

Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Through CSR initiatives, companies aim to give back to society by addressing various issues such as sustainability, community development, employee welfare, ethical business practices, and philanthropic involvement. This initiative funds programs for HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention in sub-Saharan Africa.

Volunteerism 52

Volunteerism Volunteerism Disaster Relief Food 52

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 4, 2023

In India, where more than half of the population depends on agriculture for their livelihood, floating farms offer a promising way to increase agricultural productivity while conserving precious land and water resources. According to Chatterjee, the floating-farm method has enormous potential beyond Majuli.

Agriculture 105

Agriculture Public and Social Policy Governance Construction 105