NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

In an LEC, residents collectively own and govern their housingsuch as an apartment buildingbut there are restrictions in place to limit the resale price of their ownership interest (share) to a modest appreciation rate. Partnerships with state and local governments, foundations, and impact investors are essential to overcome this barrier.

Nonprofit governance and management 99

Nonprofit governance and management Manufacturing Governance Public and Nonprofit Management 99

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The money can be used for key wealth-building activities like education, homeownership, or starting a business. For example, in Saint Paul, MN, the historically Black Rondo neighborhood was virtually destroyed when the federal government built Interstate 94 through the community. This series will explore that central question.

Public and Social Policy 126

Public and Social Policy Public Policy Poverty Governance 126

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 9, 2023

By Jonathan Ng & Rob Mills In recent years, the concept of innovative finance has become increasingly popular in the international development community, especially as a way to mobilize more funding to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Yet there is a limit to applying commercial finance thinking to the development sector.

Finance 111

Finance Production Governance Poverty 111

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

It directly limits future growth and also makes it harder for the cooperative to borrow sufficiently to finance its day-to-day activities or operating expenses. Is external financing available? In other words, 70 percent of the global needs for rural finance are currently unmet. But how and where? Affordable?

Finance 121

Finance Agriculture Governance Non-Profits 121

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 7, 2025

If they can engage in institutional philanthropy as deeply as they have impacted high tech, finance, hotel management, medicine, and academia, they could radically increase the resources and talent available for philanthropic ventures in India and the United States while also serving as a model for other diaspora groups around the world.

Philanthropy 110

Philanthropy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Foundations 110

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Were in a period of polycrisis, yet the business world, government, and civil society persist in their siloed approaches to solving it. It also includes making the case to government and helping those in the public sector understand how social innovation can achieve their goals. So, whats the next step?

Governance 96

Governance Philanthropy Collaborations Finance 96

The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate first-ever standards to govern disposal of coal ash and limit the wastewater discharge of toxic pollutants from coal-fired power plants. She also was a senior adviser on finance and development at the U.S. These wins include requiring the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

Civil Society 85

Civil Society Nonprofit Administration and Development Urban development Law 85

The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Three tax provisions that provide a federal exemption for nonprofit hospitals were analyzed: * Federal corporate income tax exemption; * Tax-exempt bond financing; and, * Federal unemployment tax exemption. Some hospitals might be exempt due to their educational or religious nature, rather than their charitable nature.

Health 59

Health Finance Governance Medical 59

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

MAY 23, 2024

Unfortunately for the nonprofit sector, higher overhead costs are correlated to an organization being irresponsible with its finances, ineffective, unable to carry out its mission, and even unethical. This transparency not only educates funders but also corrects misallocated “overhead” costs. What can I do?

Public and Social Policy 240

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 240

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 8, 2023

By Roger Low In 2023, what education and training do Americans need, beyond high school? At the same time, to salvage the American middle class, suck toxic resentment out of our politics, and build a more equitable economy, we must reimagine higher education, workforce training, and how taxpayers fund both.

Education 105

Education Education Nonprofit governance and management Race and Ethnicity 105

NonProfit Leadership Center

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

After studying finance in college and then receiving her law degree from Florida State University, Erin practiced law for 13 years — first as in-house counsel for a multi-family housing company, then in private practice at a law firm, and finally as a prosecutor at the state attorney’s office. I decided to go all-in.”

Nonprofit governance and management 239

Nonprofit governance and management Law Universities Nonprofit Management 239

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

As leaders at two organizations which have had the good fortune of receiving multiple big bets— Last Mile Health and Educate Girls —we feel a sense of responsibility to enter the fray. And at Educate Girls, big bets like the Audacious Project in 2019 enabled us to scale 3x and grow our impact 6x. That was our wishful thinking, too.

Nonprofit governance and management 126

Nonprofit governance and management Governance Health Finance 126

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Many working parents, sandwiched between the needs of their children and parents, go into debt to provide for their care, which reduces their ability to fund the cost of continuing education or purchasing a home. Another barrier is financing systems that incentivize one or two-generation occupancy.

Public and Social Policy 116

Public and Social Policy Children Poverty Health 116

Candid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Many organizations struggle to sustain their finances, teams, and leadership, which jeopardizes their ability to take up transformational opportunitiesand, in turn, their impact. Through education and relationship building, the PBI showed how strategic partnerships can drive systems change.

Collaborations 89

Collaborations Nonprofit Administration and Development Leadership Finance 89

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 17, 2024

Public banks, owned by state and local governments, are driven by a community-serving mission, Currently, financial systems favor White-owned firms and disfavor firms that are owned by people of color, limiting the wealth-building opportunities available to them. How did I come to adopt this position? in 2019 , as shown in the graphs below.

Public and Social Policy 135

Public and Social Policy Finance Governance Disaster Relief 135

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2024

Image credit: Matthew Baliga and PNW Production on Pexels This is the third article in NPQ ’s series, Just Transition: Liberating Finance to Build a Better World. What does BIPOC-led finance for land recovery look like? A Tale of Two Funds How can Black and Indigenous communities recover lost and stolen land?

Finance 138

Finance Food Agriculture Governance 138

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 31, 2023

Outlining Key Investment Gaps in Rural America Nearly nine out of 10 of the nation’s persistent poverty counties are rural , and they face chronic underinvestment by government, philanthropy, and the private sector. Federal policy, which is often implemented through state governments, adds layers of complication.

Values 130

Values Poverty Nonprofit Administration and Development Finance 130

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Consider Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank (and leader of Bangladesh’s interim government ), who brought the idea for lending to the poor to mainstream banks in the early 1980s.The banks challenged Yunus to prove it could work, and he did —first in one town, then five. Why Employee Ownership So, what is employee ownership?

Public and Social Policy 138

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Finance Non-Profits 138

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Some of the smartest and most sophisticated educators and investors in the world have trouble distinguishing between the two. This is not surprising given that much of the underlying progress in socially- or environmentally-focused investing over the last 15 years has been driven by governments, particularly those in the EU and the UK.

Environmental 140

Environmental Finance Governance Non-Profits 140

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The larger scope of the project, however, required more time to develop, finance, and build. Of the $22 million needed to build the facility , about $6 million was raised from foundations, about $1 million from individuals, and the remaining $15 million from the New Markets Tax Credit community finance program and borrowed funds.

Food 134

Food Nonprofit governance and management Finance Governance 134

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

“States have never funded HBCUs on par with the other higher institutions,” said John Silvanus Wilson in an interview with the Harvard Edcast —the podcast for Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. Wilson, the former president of Morehouse College, previously served in the US Department of Education. They want a hand up.

Universities 132

Universities Finance Education Education 132

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 25, 2024

DPI rose to prominence globally during the COVID-19 pandemic enabling digital government-to-person payments through cash transfers. The Aadhaar project morphed into India Stack during the mid-2010s to include components such as payments and financial data governance, in addition to identity.

Public and Social Policy 145

Public and Social Policy Governance Agriculture Activism 145

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

While immigration policies have prioritized high levels of education or family ties—and the political conversation tends to presume a basic scarcity of jobs—critical jobs in construction, agriculture, hospitality, and the care economy, including elderly care, cannot be automated. Extending finance to unlock resource barriers.

Public and Social Policy 144

Public and Social Policy Finance Recruitment Poverty 144

Lets Talk Nonprofit

JANUARY 4, 2017

Nonprofit boards are responsible for the governance of the organization. What is governance? Governance" comes from a Greek word meaning "to steer." Governance is the process of providing strategic leadership to a nonprofit organization. Who governs the organization? What does good governance look like?

Governance 52

Governance Nonprofit governance and management Recruitment Finance 52

Fundraising Leadership

JANUARY 17, 2025

What is the governance around AI, so you have to teach people how to use it and the impact it will have. The report continues, AI could reinforce the dominance of wealthier nations in high-value sectors like finance, pharmaceuticals, advance manufacturing, and defense. But AI is dependent on the human intelligence that surrounds it.

Leadership 100

Leadership Public and Social Policy Culture Universities 100

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 28, 2023

Representative Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) The shape of government relations for worker co-ops has experienced a massive shift in the past five years. A straightforward call for worker ownership and worker voice, the WORK Act represents the culmination of over a decade of advocacy and education from the cooperative sector.

Manufacturing 119

Manufacturing Education Education Governance 119

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Most government housing funding is spent on subsidizing mortgages—primarily for the well-to-do. Now, most government housing funding is spent on subsidizing mortgages —primarily for the well-to-do—and residential land is zoned for single-family homes and suburban sprawl.

Public and Social Policy 143

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development 143

Bloomerang

AUGUST 19, 2024

Or are they hovering ‘inside,’ focusing on internal items like day-to-day operations, finance, or programs? What is advocacy, and why it matters You have a big, bold vision to better the world with your nonprofit—whether you’re developing programs and influencing policies around education, social justice, human rights, or animal rights.

Public and Social Policy 115

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Participation and motivation Education 115

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 7, 2023

Image Credit: Logan Armstrong on unsplash.com For most young people growing up in the United States today, the idea of leading a life where you can get an education, buy a home, raise a family, and retire comfortably feels like fiction at best. We are taught in schools that US capitalism will deliver us to the promised land.

Governance 137

Governance Culture Food Energy 137

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 3, 2024

For example, our organization, One Acre Fund , supplies over 4 million African smallholder farmers with the finance, supplies, and training to grow more food, plant more trees, and earn more money. percent of climate adaptation finance need of smallholders is currently being met by all actors combined.

Finance 119

Finance Philanthropy Governance Health 119

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

For the first five years, Springboard operated programs for education reentry, workforce development, and afterschool programs, but our families told us they didn’t need another program. The average income of mothers at the start of the program is under $12,000 annually, so the payments provide a massive increase to their household finances.

Public and Social Policy 134

Public and Social Policy Poverty Public Policy Governance 134

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Making more robust use of open 990 data requires that nonprofits, foundations, researchers, and the IRS and federal government alike commit to sustained action. Even though government now mandates electronic filing, some nonprofits provide required information in alternative formats that make electronic analysis more difficult.

Public and Social Policy 126

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 126

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In that time, ESG integration has been enshrined in thousands of pension fund and asset manager ESG policies, while regulations such as the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) now require the practice of financial market participants. Re-educate your ESG teams. Work with governments.

Public and Social Policy 119

Public and Social Policy Finance Governance Participation and motivation 119

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 10, 2023

The conference brings together hundreds of community activists, government officials, and bank community development officers. These maps continued to govern bank lending until the passage of the Fair Housing Act of 1968. This year’s event was easily the group’s largest since before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Finance 116

Finance Law Governance Entrepreneurship 116

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Back in 2019, I published a study on what I called “cooperative cities” in which I wrote about how local governments in a dozen US cities create enabling environments for developing and sustaining worker cooperatives. Only a handful of municipal leaders at the time referred to this work as “community wealth building.”

Finance 120

Finance Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Education 120

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 13, 2023

They provide social services, healthcare screening, workforce development, and education.” They provide social services, healthcare screening, workforce development, and education. Rhea Williams-Bishop of the Kellogg Foundation focused on disparities in education. are often the only game in town. We need to change that.”

Finance 105

Finance Homelessness Healthcare Foundations 105

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 21, 2023

Back in 2019, during a listening tour of the seven rural Maine counties that border Canada, we learned that many people—predominantly women with a passion for early childhood education—would like to start a home- or facility-based childcare but lack the business acumen and confidence to get started. We turn to each of these themes below.

Curriculum and Teaching 105

Curriculum and Teaching Finance Children Recruitment 105