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. Construction, by contrast, took only two years.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 14, 2023

Image Credit: Charlota Blunarova on unsplash.com Private foundations are best known for their grantmaking. However, each year, foundations nationwide invest hundreds of billions, often with the simple goal of maximizing financial returns to fund future grants. At the most basic level, a guarantee is akin to automobile insurance.

Community Development 109

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The Charity CFO

APRIL 5, 2022

But that’s not quite true—nonprofits face a decision between 2 different accounting methods for tracking their financial activity: cash accounting vs. accrual accounting. Is your nonprofit required to use accrual accounting? And many large grantmakers, foundations, and banks may insist on accrual-based financials to give you funds.

Construction 98

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NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 24, 2023

Ultimately, this self-questioning convinced Akuno that changing ownership of the economy was critical to liberation; that there had to be a pivot in strategy toward cooperatives and toward the construction of a solidarity economy. Company management, Smalls said, “plastered the buildings with anti-union propaganda. Earn their trust.”

Education 141

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 1, 2022

As described in an earlier article in this in-depth series, collective funding through FHO complements the investments that each foundation makes on its own. If local government passes the ordinance, support and mobilization from residents are needed to sustain the work—and likewise, long-term funding.

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Nonprofit Marketing Blog

APRIL 30, 2013

For the month of April, I’m hosting the nonprofit blog carnival. I also invited readers’ best single piece of advice for people who work at nonprofits. I also invited readers’ best single piece of advice for people who work at nonprofits. Organization = Foundation = Underwear. Here are your answers!

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

We looked at spending across the social impact sector; including government , global and domestic philanthropy, and S-themed ESG assets under management; and found that globally we are spending an extraordinary amount of money—roughly $72 trillion annually—making social spending the world’s largest financial market.

Public and Social Policy 111

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

DECEMBER 20, 2020

How to Train Your Nonprofit Team in 5 Easy & Effective Steps. Nonprofit training is a critical component of running a successful organization. Nonprofits hire for passion. That’s why the key to successful nonprofit growth is to find the perfect balance between passionate team members and mission experts.

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The Agitator

JUNE 13, 2013

But frankly, we wish we were getting even more concerned and constructive response. As Craver points out, not only do the organizations topping CIR’s worst list engage in misleading fundraising, they do so by piggybacking the brands of ethical nonprofits. Name confusion causes lasting harm to honest organizations. And don’t stop there!

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Though the idea of helping and giving back to others has existed since Biblical times, nonprofit organizations in the United States have a much shorter history. Every couple of decades, a new era ushers in a new set of ideas, principles and practices that affect how the nonprofit sector functions. Go big, or go home.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Image credit: Christian Ouellet on istock.com Financing challenges often stymie nonprofits. Executive Director Luis Gallardo calculated that the nonprofit would need half a million dollars in the best-case scenario and, more likely, a million dollars to reach the first milestones. Yet even after having been awarded an $11.2

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

These components can be employed through a nonprofit organization or city government. For example, at a nonprofit, key decision makers might include the organization’s board members and staff. As the program begins its final year, I am proud of the partnerships that helped to establish a solid foundation from which to grow.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

When you started your nonprofit, you likely had a core group of supporters who provided donations and funding on a regular basis. That’s why nonprofits need donor segmentation. Donor segmentation is the process of separating your nonprofit supporters into groups based on common qualities and characteristics they share.

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iMarketSmart

APRIL 18, 2022

You give and the government matches your gift with a tax benefit. Your dollars become more powerful because the government pays for part of the cost of the gift.”. VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 30(4), 841-848 ; Reinstein, D., & Riener, G. Match language – Yes. Liang, J.,

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

But if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang beyond our webinars, I would invite you to check us out because we are a provider of donor-management software, that’s what Bloomerang is. And if you’re in the room today, chances are you are part of a nonprofit organization or, what I like to call, a purpose-driven organization.

Children 109

Children Curriculum and Teaching Education Education 109

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

But once a board becomes more community-anchored, how are they to embrace the challenge of inclusive governance and bring out the best insights from their new members? Here, the issue becomes much less clear. Agree on the Big Why There is no shortage of strategies for creating successful board meetings.

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NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 7, 2024

Image: “ Hiding From My Shadow” by Yvonne Coleman Burney/ www.artbyycolemanburney.com Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.” T]he federal government has largely left each state on its own to compete against other states for jobs and tax revenues.

Public and Social Policy 134

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Funders for Housing and Opportunity (FHO) is a collaborative of 13 philanthropies, including The JPB Foundation where I serve as senior vice president of environment and strategic initiatives. Currently, an estimated 20 percent of emissions in the United States comes from the energy used in homes.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 19, 2025

Thompson, Twin Pines Cooperative Foundation There is an accessible alternative to a lifetime of high rent payments to landlords: limited-equity housing cooperatives (LEHCs). Establishing a LEHC entails a lot of heavy upfront costs and efforts such as buying land, funding new construction, and navigating housing code and laws.

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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.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2023

They were erased by government-backed campaigns to move birth out of the hands of Black midwives and into the hands of white male obstetricians. The midwife, well known as a healer in Black communities, came to the house and “caught the baby.” 51 In liberatory economic models of birth centers, midwives—and communities—thrive.

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Health Healthcare Public and Social Policy Ethics 131

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 26, 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.” At the height of the pandemic, I was swept up in a titanic battle being waged over the right to a city. 1 That city was New Haven, Connecticut.

Education 98

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 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? Moreover, a significant proportion of utility governing boards comprises utility workers and frontline community members.

Energy 119

Energy Law Governance Public and Social Policy 119

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The Kresge Foundation is just one of the funders to get on board. There are 170 facilities that report toxic chemicals, and 149 report greenhouse gas emissions with 29 facilities proposed or under construction—all in majority Black communities,” Dr. Wright said.

Public and Social Policy 129

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

5 The webinar—featuring Adela Ruiz, program and grants lead at the NBA Foundation, and Sandy Ho, Disability Inclusion Fund director at Borealis Philanthropy—lays out the principles of disability justice and its intersectionality with other movements, including LGBTQIA+ rights, BIPOC justice, feminism, and immigrant justice.

Public and Social Policy 119

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NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 10, 2024

Image credit: Drew Katz Black Bostonian communities citywide have more than just something to say for themselves: their economies are building institutions that prioritize asset-based community development and are creating the foundations for a local solidarity economy. After raising $4.5

Food 131

Food Community Development Medical Nonprofit governance and management 131

The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

When carefully structured and governed, spend-down strategies can provide targeted financial support to causes that need it most. However, the total dollars granted will be reduced, meaning risk management will take priority during the distribution process. This combination reduces the original value of the portfolio.

Nonprofit governance and management 89

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Combatting this elite capture, he argues, requires a constructive politics that draws on identity politics’ radical foundation: a practice of solidarity that links people of different identities and their struggles, building power to win a better world for all.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2023

All Moderated by Steve Dubb of the Nonprofit Quarterly. Tom Llewellyn: [00:00:06] Welcome to a special episode of Cities@Tufts, brought to you by Shareable and Tufts University with support from the Barr and Shift Foundations. So there are about 315 of these nonprofit organizations worldwide. Thanks for listening.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 12, 2023

But at the EconCon conference held in Washington, DC, in June, hosted by the Omidyar Network and a dozen nonprofit think tanks, speakers offered a far broader definition of public power— namely, the power of government to act on behalf of the public. This is why finding ways to manage public procurement for public good is so important.

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NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 16, 2023

Can you expand on what this means, both as a messaging strategy and a foundation for movement efforts? With the IRA, government, local municipal utilities, and nonprofit entities can get those credits for the first time, which could open up the opportunity for unprecedented, publicly owned renewable energy. It’s a good phrase.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Fortunately, community land trust (CLT) homeownership appears more successful than most government programs for first-time, low-income homebuyers—both due to demonstrated increased housing stability for residents and a participatory board model that includes both resident and nonresident community representation.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 7, 2024

Recurring instances of uncivil behavior tend to weaken the foundation of society insofar as they generate interpersonal discord. In “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” King defended what he called a “constructive tension,” or a crisis that the activist engineers to “dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored.”

Manufacturing 144

Manufacturing Construction Psychology Children 144

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Published by the Heritage Foundation and formally titled Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise , the nearly 900-page document, divided into 30 chapters, offers a host of right-wing policy recommendations.

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