NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Limited housing stock impacts families by raising their housing costs to unaffordable levels, forcing people to move or face homelessness. Since 2013, over 100 churches have sought housing and community development assistance and financing from the United Church of Christ Church Building & Loan Fund (CB&LF) that I direct.

Community Development 130

Community Development Finance Production Governance 130

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 13, 2023

He indicated that the church’s history fuels much of its mission work, including supporting a homelessness ministry and operating a voting precinct at the church to make sure that local West Jackson residents are not disenfranchised. “Faith institutions. are often the only game in town. We need to change that.”

Finance 105

Finance Homelessness Healthcare Foundations 105

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The simplest way to make a difference with your investments is to divert some returns to things you care about: your children’s school, a homeless shelter, or an environmental group. Traditionally, most experts in finance and economics thought this was an impossibility. As a bonus, you may be able to see the results for yourself.

Environmental 133

Environmental Energy Finance Management 133

Bloomerang

AUGUST 19, 2024

Or are they hovering ‘inside,’ focusing on internal items like day-to-day operations, finance, or programs? Your board members are a link between your nonprofit and its stakeholders and constituents. But are your board members ‘out there’ advocating for your cause?

Public and Social Policy 115

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 17, 2023

The most common characteristic we saw in social finance or capital market investments targeted at these focus areas was the need for massive tax subsidies provided by governments or “loss reserve” coverage most often coming from philanthropic sources.

Marketing 122

Marketing Marketing Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management 122

The Agitator

JUNE 14, 2012

In return for $57 million from its donors DVNF gave to one homeless veteran’s group in Alabama: 11,500 bags of coconut M&Ms. CNN also pointed out that virtually all of the donors’ contributions were used to pay Quadriga Art , the firm that produced the mailings and presumably financed them as well. 2600 bags of cough drops.

Public and Nonprofit Management 87

Public and Nonprofit Management Finance Charitable Contribution Homelessness 87

Ken Goldstein

MARCH 5, 2019

RCSJ is a healing community for those traumatized by addiction, homelessness, and mental health challenges. million renovation of the Cafe itself, financed through CDBG funds, and all the delays, bureaucracy, endless meetings, and hard work that implies. Along the way we also did a $1.2

Homelessness 69

Homelessness Construction Health Activism 69

Bloomerang

MAY 20, 2021

You literally do not know about anyone’s finances unless they tell you. How many people walked right past that young man because he doesn’t drive a Tesla or he’s 25 or he works full-time in an entry-level position and couldn’t possibly be a major donor ? but, I digress) and it tells you that so-and-so can give $25k+.

Homelessness 125

Homelessness Philanthropy Charitable Organizations Finance 125

Bloomerang

MAY 15, 2024

A strong and effective board can help provide strategic direction, keep your finances in check, and uphold a high standard of governance. Whether they’re doing a science experiment that summer campers might do at camp, serving the homeless a meal, or looking at cells under a microscope in the hospital, bring the front lines of your work.

Participation and motivation 105

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

The Agitator

MARCH 25, 2018

In a sector desperate for growth new solutions and approaches to financing must be explored. Why are there few market-makers in the nonprofit sector that could provide more financing options to generate growth and scale? There’s a Forest Resilience Bond underway that seeks to finance desperately needed wildfire prevention.”.

Finance 56

Finance Fundraising Fundraising Homelessness 56

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2023

The Sustainable Giving Report covers this topic in depth and found that 75% of donors have had their finances negatively impacted by inflation but 80% of donors continue to donate! Wallets are stretched thin as the prices of everyday items are continuously increasing.

Fundraising 121

Fundraising Fundraising Retention Homelessness 121

NonProfit Hub

JULY 5, 2017

She says this is because “your major gifts prospects don’t simply give money—they save lives; they feed the hungry and house the homeless; they educate children; they help cure diseases—they make the important work of your organization possible. Donors are so much more than simply ‘donors.’

Homelessness 62

Homelessness Finance Nonprofits Children 62

NonProfit Hub

JUNE 22, 2018

She says this is because “your major gifts prospects don’t simply give money—they save lives; they feed the hungry and house the homeless; they educate children; they help cure diseases—they make the important work of your organization possible. Donors are so much more than simply ‘donors.’ Originally published 7.6.2017 —Updated 6.22.2018.

Homelessness 50

Homelessness Finance Nonprofits Children 50

The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 7, 2024

For example, say a group of motivated people banded together to help end homelessness. Those people may enter into a fiscal sponsorship with a Section 501(c)(3) organization, forming a Section 501(c)(3) project, to provide food and other necessities to persons experiencing homelessness as part of their charitable mission.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 59

Nonprofit Administration and Development Fundraising Fundraising Homelessness 59

The Charity CFO

JULY 3, 2023

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Nonprofits 52

Nonprofits Homelessness Environmental Finance 52

Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

Nonprofits surveyed by the Toronto Foundation widely believe (65 percent) that the pandemic will significantly threaten their finances for the next five years. Although the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines offers some hope of normalcy in the future, organizations predict the pandemic’s socioeconomic impacts are likely to last much longer.

Civil Society 75

Civil Society Philanthropy Nonprofit Administration and Development Foundations 75

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 2, 2024

The other is an academic political scientist with a background in biology and experience working with environmental organizations, artists, finance executives, and video game developers. Listening to and valuing the knowledge from the user group gave rise to novel suggestions like a central mailbox system.

Collaborations 132

Collaborations Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management 132

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

And they can also be settings, things like schools or homeless shelters. . And then, of course, you want to communicate regularly with the program and finance teams, not just right before a grant is due, but really all the time. Potentially populations served, like children or people with disabilities.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 104

Nonprofit Administration and Development Foundations Public and Nonprofit Management Health 104

Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

They share the history, they share the finances, all of that. . If you are, you know, like I said, if you’re a homeless shelter or anything with those sensitive confidentiality thing, tell the story from a different perspective. Now, somebody is sitting in a corner going, “That’s all they doing?

Fundraising 126

Fundraising Fundraising Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management 126

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 12, 2025

Unfortunately, far too often, elitesour local oligarchs, if you willuse fancy tools of municipal finance like tax increment financing to expense development costs onto taxpayers, even as they profit. What Is Tax Increment Financing? The result was a 13-page report , which was sent to the principals of the arena deal.

Public and Social Policy 67

Public and Social Policy Finance Community Development Construction 67

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

For example, through its partnership with FNL, UPILF was able to assist a young man on the verge of homelessness after the death of his infant son. With a compassionate lending approach, the applicants unique circumstances are the primary considerationnot their credit score or employment history.

Education 107

Education Education Community Development Homelessness 107

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

At the same time, Black and Indigenous communities and communities of color have limited access to financing, including for activities that would support their active involvement in the shift to a green economy. These companies already have financing, staff, and revenue, and most have been running for four years or more.

Energy 111

Energy Finance Environmental Food 111

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

With this thought in mind, we recently conducted research on 14 cutting edge platforms led by Ashoka Fellows around the world in key sectors such as education, health, and finance. Then there is the example of Rosanne Haggerty, from Community Solutions , an organization focused on tackling homelessness in the United States.

Homelessness 130

Homelessness Governance Technology Activism 130

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In a massive charitable response, vast networks of locally supported food pantries, coat drives, homeless shelters, community clinics, and free schools have been launched and sustained. Economic Justice Is Accounting Justice by Clara Miller During my career in social sector finance, I coined a slogan: “Accounting is destiny.”

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 132

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 6, 2023

The existing housing system has left hundreds of thousands homeless, and millions more giving over half of their income to their landlords, only to (often) live in substandard housing. Seventy percent of proceeds will go to affordable housing and 30 percent will go to various homelessness prevention services.

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development 111

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 8, 2025

A local bank, credit union, or community development finance institution (CDFI) can approach the public bank with a loan they cannot (or prefer not to) cover by themselves, such as an affordable housing development, and ask the public bank to fund a portion of that loan.

Nonprofit governance and management 128

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance Finance 128

Top Nonprofits

MARCH 7, 2025

During times of economic uncertainty , offering merchandise is a great strategy to insulate your business from hardship and shore up your finances. Or, a boutique could give out-of-season clothing to an organization that provides resources to those experiencing homelessness.

Production 52

Production Finance Retail Homelessness 52

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

All those things being informed ultimately by their finances and the debt that they’ve taken on. There’s Bring Chicago Home, an initiative to increase the tax on properties worth over a million dollars, which will be used to fund homeless-prevention services. There’s the victory around the ShotSpotter contract, as mentioned.

Public and Social Policy 121

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Non-Profits Production 121

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Mike Koprowski: Success will be when race no longer predicts one’s likelihood of experiencing unaffordable rent, homelessness, and living in areas of concentrated poverty—when we have eliminated those things altogether for all people.

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Poverty Health 111

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

In Los Angeles, a broad coalition of housing, labor, climate, and interfaith groups went to the ballot and won the United to House LA measure , a “mansion tax” on property sales of over $5 million to fund social housing and homelessness prevention programs.

Public and Social Policy 143

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

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Part of this work involves connecting people with lived experiences of homelessness, precarious rentals, and manufactured housing with homeowners fearing gentrification and displacement. These all are interconnected and dynamic. All should be allies in housing justice coalitions, as should advocates for public banking.

Public and Social Policy 131

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 131

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In California, hundreds of people rallied in Sacramento , where Governor Gavin Newsom (D) recently issued an executive order for state agencies to sweep homeless encampments, threatening to cut funding to localities that do not comply. They have also advocated for a “ housing first ” approach to homelessness.

Public and Social Policy 130

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofit Administration and Development 130