NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

As a nonprofit, CC’s organizational structure was influenced by ceremonial and Indigenous values. For CC, neither certificates nor government designations are needed to certify the group’s ancestral knowledge. When one of us in the community gave birth, we would support the new mother for 40 days in this manner by bringing food.

Food 118

Food Health Values Collaborations 118

Selfish Giving

DECEMBER 6, 2010

The prize is valued at $100,000. My two favorite causes profiled were UNICEF and the Food Bank For New York City because they both reminded me of my own organization in some way. The value proposition of your brand has to be simple and actionable. The prize is worth the visit. million readers. Now on to the review!

Food 198

Food Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofits 198

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 29, 2025

Workers at these stores are affiliated with either the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) or the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU). Moreno, whose climate work at 350 Seattle often intersects with labor rights issues, calls worker representation a crucial part of good corporate governance.

Retail 136

Retail Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management 136

Selfish Giving

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

First, I've talked with some of you about the government's hold on grants and funding. In last week's trends webinar , I discussed the importance of "finding your people"identifying companies that share your values and outlook. 55k - $58k) Brain Food 1. Three things this week. Fortunately, the hold was lifted.

Nonprofit governance and management 130

Nonprofit governance and management Manufacturing Ethics Nonprofits 130

Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

. — Gary McGeough from Bristol Organizations Committed Team Players, Capable of Collaborating Effectively I seek individuals who are genuinely passionate about our mission and show a strong belief in our values and goals. For example, are you starting to consider purchasing a warehouse for your food bank? Everything else can be taught.

Ethics 106

Ethics Nonprofit governance and management Collaborations Children 106

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Aimee Arent , Friends of Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Aiza Ashraf , Director of Equity & Community Impact, United Way of Lancaster County Amber Badgett , Meaningful Day Services John Badstubner , ServiceNow Dolores Bates Lorrena Black , VP Leadership Development, Inforum Samantha Butterfield , Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre Marjorie (..)

Nonprofit governance and management 246

Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofit Leadership Leadership Foundations 246

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2024

To transform the financial landscape, we must position our traditions and values front and center. As part of this movement, Black- and Indigenous-led organizations have been building innovative solutions rooted in our ancestral cultural values to provide equitable and nonextractive financing to farmers, land stewards, and entrepreneurs.

Finance 138

Finance Food Agriculture Governance 138

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Even the federal government [was] pushing what they called self-help co-ops. She talked about how if we dont own our own land and create our own food, we will never be able to fight for our political rights because they use food as a weapon, and poverty keeps us from having the strength and stability to be in the political fight.

Food 88

Food Activism Poverty Leadership 88

Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 17, 2024

A Cautionary Tale: Overcoming Governance Nightmares in Nonprofit Organizations No one enjoys it when a nonprofits board doesnt work well together. Everyone wants to know that they are valued and part of the team including your board members. Explore the realities and challenges of food insecurity. Updates by topic!

Nonprofit governance and management 73

Nonprofit governance and management Finance Collaborations Leadership 73

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 22, 2024

Back in the San Francisco Bay Area where I’m usually based, I work with the Sustainable Economies Law Center to support projects that redistribute wealth, democratize governance, and steward communal resources. Ayni —an Andean cultural value of reciprocity and mutualism—motivates Bolivians to support one another. Community swing.

Culture 124

Culture Governance Public and Social Policy Values 124

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2022

This article is part of Black Food Sovereignty: Stories from the Field , a series co-produced by Frontline Solutions and NPQ. How does a community come together to build community wealth and advance Black food sovereignty? A little over two years ago, Black food advocates came together in Raleigh to form the Black Farmers’ Hub.

Food 118

Food Agriculture Governance Children 118

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 7, 2023

Over the course of our trip, we visited locations across Spain, but here we focus on Barcelona’s Sants neighborhood, a post-industrial working-class community, due to its unique co-op legacy, the community’s social fabric, and its infrastructure and governance. Food co-ops were set up in food deserts.

Governance 137

Governance Culture Food Energy 137

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 12, 2023

These militias, funded by both the state of California and the federal government, were paid bounties for the murder of Indigenous people; members of these militias were then eligible to get land from the federal government, effectively receiving land stolen from Native people as payment for killing them.

Governance 132

Governance Agriculture Food Production 132

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Donors and governments may shift their dollars…to focusing on necessities like food, water, energy, and healthcare. Without access to mortgages, there will be fewer potential homebuyers, which may lead to a drop in property values. Hailstones are getting bigger and more damaging. This escalation is our new normal.

Insurance 129

Insurance Civil Society Healthcare Energy 129

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 24, 2022

These communities lack access to health care , struggle with food insecurity and water scarcity , and generally have difficulty meeting basic needs. What’s also startling is that climate change is one of this group’s least immediate concerns. Investment.

Health 122

Health Public and Social Policy Environmental Governance 122

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This article concludes Black Food Sovereignty: Stories from the Field , a series that has been co-produced by Frontline Solutions and NPQ. This series features stories from a group of Black food sovereignty leaders who are working to transform the food system at the local level.

Food 126

Food Agriculture Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 126

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 10, 2024

Opened in 2023, this full-service grocer focused on the African diaspora through food (including a halal butchery, restaurant, cafe, and gathering space) has the audacious goal of controlling the food marketplace and attaining food sovereignty. The need for food sovereignty is urgent, to hear Samad tell it.

Food 131

Food Community Development Medical Nonprofit governance and management 131

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Smallholder farmers and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) make up the bulk of agri-food businesses worldwide, accounting for a significant part of all formal agribusinesses and more than half of their full-time workforces. A long investment horizon of up to 10 years Only in the agri-food value chain. But there is more.

Finance 121

Finance Agriculture Governance Non-Profits 121

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Building a just transition from our present unsustainable, extractive economy to one that is regenerative (and therefore sustainable) is deeply relational and must be anchored in values of solidarity. Based in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District, R2G turns restaurant food scraps into compost for the neighborhood’s elder gardeners.

Nonprofit governance and management 124

Nonprofit governance and management Food Public and Nonprofit Management Environmental 124

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 26, 2022

To value depth of impact, the process of building sustained community power, and the transformation of entrenched and extractive systems, we can conceive of scale as depth , relationship , decentralization, and power. This included halting government-sponsored mega-dams and building community-governed, micro-hydro energy systems.

Agriculture 128

Agriculture Public and Social Policy Energy Governance 128

Anedot

MARCH 6, 2025

Specifically, this role will manage the grants calendar, develop grant strategies, and research, write and prepare foundation and government grant applications and funder reports. Develops an annual foundation and government grant strategy that includes cultivation of new funders and development/scaling of existing funder relationships.

Management 40

Management Nonprofit governance and management Health Food 40

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 2, 2024

The leaders of a nonprofit community garden want to help residents move up the value chain by selling food products from their homes, but state law restricts food production to commercial kitchens or farms. The local organization could identify someone working at the intersection of food and legal advocacy.

Collaborations 132

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Yet in that year, the World Bank’s International Development Assistance alone had pledged about a third of that amount to governments affected by fragility and conflict. Paradoxically, some of these governments contributed to the violence against their people. Those controlling the taps need to readjust the plumbing.

Poverty 115

Poverty Finance Governance Non-Profits 115

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The fundamental premise of the Build and Fight Formula is that we must abandon our deficit-based perspective of scale and pivot to a perspective of bounty—one that appreciates the value of a multitude of autonomous organizing projects.

Public and Social Policy 136

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Smallholder farmers produce at least a third of the global food supply. To achieve this, more businesses need to join with the government and civil society to actively confront inequality, poverty, and climate change together. Though these farms are small, typically under two hectares, their cumulative impact is large.

Agriculture 105

Agriculture Civil Society Poverty Environmental 105

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The program includes classroom training in business development, finance, governance, democratic decision-making, and participatory management. The ownership structure of Mondragon Village Association derives from the co-op members’ existing bonds and values. We then pick up the food scraps, and compost it right here in the city.” “As

Non-Profits 137

Non-Profits Food Environmental Associations 137

Bloomerang

APRIL 25, 2024

So, leadership must model the values and behaviors they’d like to see throughout the organization, setting a standard that promotes a positive and productive culture. “If Work actively to shape and improve your organization’s culture by embodying and promoting the values you want to see. They don’t think ‘I.’ The legendary Simone P.

Nonprofit governance and management 103

Nonprofit governance and management Culture Leadership Governance 103

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

What would it take to fully fund the human capital, governance, and advocacy costs of nonprofits? The structure of the overall economy, and government responses or inaction to these conditions, are at the heart of why most nonprofit organizations were formed—to ameliorate the effects of market failure. If not, why not?

Public and Social Policy 132

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

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Work requirements are based on several problematic truths about the United States: an unwillingness to govern by fact rather than fiction, a deep history of racism and sexism, and a centuries-long capitalist work ethic that treats people as dispensable. She relied on her benefits to keep food on the table and a roof over her family’s head.

Public and Social Policy 129

Public and Social Policy Poverty Governance Insurance 129

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

We dont have digital data for a lot of human intelligence, because people werent valuing the people who produce those books, or the people who produce that artit didnt get digitized, didnt get celebrated, didnt receive comments on Reddit or Facebook. And a mirror can only reflect the light that reaches it.

Nonprofit governance and management 69

Nonprofit governance and management Technology Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 69

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 25, 2023

The values of radical participatory democracy have informed our sprawling sci-fi art project, Other Orbits. Together, the episodes tell an epic story of ecological reckoning, radical systems of self-governance, and conflict resolution. Members operate by consensus and healthy debate. We practice participatory budgeting.

Culture 126

Culture Governance Values Collaborations 126

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 29, 2023

Unfortunately, behavioral health solutions are typically developed by government officials, academic researchers, clinicians, nonprofit leaders, and social service organizations. This includes compensating community members for their time, utilizing participatory decision-making structures, and providing essentials like childcare and food.

Health 115

Health Public and Social Policy Governance Collaborations 115

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

I started Esperanza with the same three key ingredients as any social entrepreneur: a personal motivation to solve a tough problem where government and markets had failed, an entrepreneurial vision for how to do it, and a base from which to pursue my vision. The Beginning: Success … In One Community.

Participation and motivation 130

Participation and motivation Construction Governance Nonprofits 130

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In 2009, Betsy and Jesse Fink initiated a program of investment to tackle the challenge of food waste in the United States, combining philanthropic grants, direct investments in startups, and formation of the ReFED backbone organization. What could systemic investing look like in practice?

Finance 135

Finance Public and Social Policy Environmental Food 135

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 25, 2023

Key IPS components may include scope and purpose, governance, investment asset classes, return and risk objectives, investment benchmarking, and risk management. To integrate mission into an investment policy, some organizations create a separate Impact Investment Policy that broadly defines impact investment values and strategies.

Public and Social Policy 126

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

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The value of partnerships is to simultaneously transform the community and the institution itself into a more humane organization. This generates economic value but often displaces residents and helps give universities well-earned reputations as agents of gentrification. Yet a different university is possible.

Universities 118

Universities Curriculum and Teaching Participation and motivation Culture 118