NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2023

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. The nonprofit sector is hugely important both economically and socially to this country.

Civil Society 90

Civil Society Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Social Policy Leadership 90

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The US Water Alliance —a national nonprofit that aligns various stakeholders to solve this current water crisis—is tackling this issue head on. Each city had teams of community-based organizations, utility staff and representatives, and social service providers that served areas impacted by water shutoffs.

Public and Social Policy 128

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Collaborations Universities 128

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 116

Entrepreneurship Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations 116

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Dismantling barriers to food access requires clear strategies and methodologies that inform funding, drive policy, and guide community-based initiatives. While the answers remain complicated, we must use our collective power and community agency to address our needs. A Camden community vision emerges.

Food 135

Food Agriculture Poverty Public and Social Policy 135

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Decades of discriminatory housing, transportation, and land-use policy combined with economic disinvestment have resulted in communities that are residentially segregated by income, race, ethnicity, language, and immigration status. Learning About Community Power.

Health 105

Health Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Philanthropy 105

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Image credit: Brandon on Unsplash The murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police three and a half years ago ignited a months-long period of mass social mobilization and intense public engagement. After all, financial institutions that understand their clients’ backgrounds can more effectively respond to their needs.

Finance 75

Finance Culture Foundations Public and Social Policy 75

Anedot

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Job Title: Community Response Program Manager Department: Community Response (CR) Reports To: Program Director FLSA Status: Non Exempt, Full time (40 hrs/week) Compensation: $66,560 – $82,243 annually ($32/hour – $39.54/hour) Work cooperatively with staff on case management and planning.

Management 52

Management Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Law 52

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Image credit: Roman Kraft on Unsplash It’s becoming increasingly hard to find a housing justice organizer who hasn’t been to Vienna or extolled the virtues of its social housing sector, and wants to do something similar in the United States. What is Social Housing? What’s harder to find is a political strategy to achieve as much.

Public and Social Policy 120

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 120

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 124

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 124

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

But I always had a sense of those organizations when I worked there, an internal critique of what kind of social change were we really bringing about. And we were relying on nonprofits that at the same time were losing their balance sheets. So, the organizations were vulnerable at the same time when communities were vulnerable.

Public and Social Policy 97

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance Public and Nonprofit Management 97

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Yet despite these challenges, global philanthropy has much to learn from South Africa on democracy, development practice, and social justice. According to Afrobarometer, between 2011 and 2024, levels of public satisfaction with the democratic state also plummeted to 39 percent from 60 percent. Some say he did his best.

Philanthropy 74

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Poverty Civil Society 74

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 120

Food Agriculture Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 120

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The diffusion of new and innovative models of community-owned commercial real estate is enhancing resident power and self-determination. As Gordon Nembhard explains, cooperative enterprises historically have grown in number and impact during periods of economic and social tumult.

Finance 96

Finance Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Education 96

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

Image credit: Yannick Lowery / www.severepaper.com Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s fall 2023 issue, “How Do We Create Home in the Future? 2 It has been edited for publication here. 2 It has been edited for publication here. Two things changed how wealth was managed. The year is 2053.

Public and Social Policy 117

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Taxation 117

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? We think it can. We think it can.

Public and Social Policy 77

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 77

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Faced with a broken system, more Americans—across urban, suburban, exurban, and rural communities—are rallying around a positive vision for the future, one rooted in social housing systems that ensure housing for all. What Is Social Housing?

Public and Social Policy 136

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management 136

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2023

Over the course of our lecture series, we’ve talked a lot about the crucial role that community plays in building alternatives to capitalistic models of access, resource distribution and social equity. All Moderated by Steve Dubb of the Nonprofit Quarterly. Thanks for listening. 00:03:54] A few notes.

Public and Social Policy 94

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Food Nonprofit governance and management 94

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

Up to this point, legislation for most worker co-ops was not a priority; federal policy wasn’t even a pipe dream. Public policy wasn’t really a part of our culture. Why Prioritize Public Policy and Advocacy? 6 Engaging in public policy advocacy is not without its dangers. Until it was.

Public Policy 76

Public Policy Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 76

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

Image Credit: cottonbro studio on pexels.com It’s not often that a body of work comes along that makes us ask big questions about the nonprofit sector. Claire Dunning’s new book, Nonprofit Neighborhoods , is one. In it, she not only traces the development of the nonprofit sector.

Public and Social Policy 117

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Governance 117