NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Image credit: Matt Briney on unsplash.com This is the second article in NPQ ’s series titled Building Power, Fighting Displacement: Stories from Asian Pacific America, coproduced with the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development ( National CAPACD ). Photo courtesy of CCDC.

Community Development 118

Community Development Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management Leadership 118

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Image credit: Matthew Moloney on unsplash.com This is the third article in NPQ ’s series titled Building Power, Fighting Displacement: Stories from Asian Pacific America, coproduced with the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development ( National CAPACD ). What does gentrification look like?

Community Development 113

Community Development Leadership Food Governance 113

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 26, 2023

Image Credit: Bruno Guerrero on unsplash.com This is the third article in NPQ ’s series titled Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. Among the coalition participants is the organization I work for, the Latino Economic Development Corporation. It appeared that the owner was actively disinvesting in the property.

Construction 94

Construction Community Development Governance Environmental 94

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 29, 2023

What if the tens of thousands of churches currently projected to close in the next few years put their assets into trusts deeply aligned with community development, versus stranding those assets and real estate as they shutter?

Nonprofit governance and management 108

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Community Development 108

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 1, 2023

The cultural sector is actively seeking alternatives to business-as-usual. In this series, queer, trans, and BIPOC artists and cultural bearers reflect upon the unique role that culture has played and can play in activating and enacting structural change—and in building a solidarity economy. However, disruptions are being cooked up.

Culture 106

Culture Retail Community Development Collaborations 106

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 14, 2023

At the same time, many community development nonprofits face challenges in securing the capital needed to carry out their core missions and, importantly, to test new ideas and strategies. From inception, the pool was centered on community development financing activities and emphasized racial, gender, and economic equity.

Community Development 82

Community Development Finance Energy Nonprofit governance and management 82

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Strong policies to curtail displacement are necessary, but we need to think about other tools that can support small business preservation, especially legacy businesses, BIPOC entrepreneurs, and other critical enterprises that maintain the cultural fabric of a community. Are we experts in real estate acquisition and development?

Culture 106

Culture Community Development Collaborations Activism 106

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 12, 2023

Image Credit: Abe Camacho on unsplash.com This article introduces a new NPQ series, Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. If housing prices and rents are rising and neighborhood demographics are changing, what can community-based organizations, residents, and business owners do?

Culture 96

Culture Construction Community Development Education 96

Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Art’s grantmaking activity is focused on serving the needs of artists by funding the institutions that support them. The Knight Foundation believes arts and culture are at the core of community, connecting people to place and to each other. Areas served: US. Areas served: US. Knight Foundation.

Culture 105

Culture Foundations Education Education 105

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

We’ve identified at least 25 places where there is likely geographic overlap between an existing land bank and an existing community land trust, and we know of five formalized, active CLT-land bank partnerships across the country.

Public and Social Policy 108

Public and Social Policy Governance Community Development Agriculture 108

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 2, 2023

Image Credit: Daniel Xavier on pexels This is the fourth article in NPQ ’s series titled Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. How does a small Latinx community organize itself to support homegrown businesses? To be effective, it is critical to employ an equity lens in all our business development work.

Participation and motivation 52

Participation and motivation Nonprofit governance and management Community Development Leadership 52

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

Image Credit: Vyacheslav Dumchev on istock This is the second article in NPQ ’s series titled Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. But the community is not taking these threats lying down. In Long Beach, CA, Latinx renters face increasing threats of gentrification and displacement.

Law 97

Law Cultural Diversity Community Development Children 97

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Impoverished individuals are treated as passive recipients of solutions, with no active role in the process. The proposed work would integrate fundamental changes in programs and policies to transform driver education, active and latent safety measures, and the built environment.

Philanthropy 127

Philanthropy Homelessness Psychology Health 127

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2023

In this series, queer, trans, and BIPOC artists and cultural bearers reflect upon the unique role that culture has played and can play in activating and enacting structural change—and in building a solidarity economy. Artists are essential to any vision that calls the future into question.

Philanthropy 90

Philanthropy Culture Agriculture Community Development 90

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 112

Entrepreneurship Philanthropy Foundations Public and Social Policy 112

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 17, 2024

A Community Finance Solution While barriers to homeownership persist for households of color, these barriers are possible to overcome. Scaling AHP-type loans across the mortgage lending system requires an active secondary market and, by extension, federal housing agencies to buy these loans. This is known as the secondary market.

Finance 122

Finance Production Insurance Values 122

The Volunteer Hub

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

According to Nonprofit Source, 90% of company executives indicated that partnering with a reputable nonprofit organization enhanced their brand and 89% believe partnering leverages their ability to improve the community. Developing partnerships presents a win-win-win scenario for your nonprofit, the community, and your corporate partner.

Volunteerism 86

Volunteerism Volunteerism Non-Profits Public and Nonprofit Management 86

Candid

JUNE 9, 2021

Little did I know then that this work would form lasting bonds, and that years later I’d find myself still sharing space at conferences, on Zoom, in bylines, and most recently in the creation of the Participatory Grantmaking Community. .

Philanthropy 120

Philanthropy Community Development Foundations Collaborations 120

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

However, we can actively try to build cross-community bridges in an attempt to understand our own locality from other points of view. Provide diversity and inclusion training for all staff and board members, to increase awareness and understanding of the issues faced by underserved communities.

Leadership 104

Leadership Poverty Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity 104

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

AUGUST 20, 2023

Advocacy is a powerful tool in a nonprofit’s toolkit that can be used to mobilize the community, develop effective solutions, and educate those who have the authority to draft and enact legislation. Now imagine those programs with fewer activities, fewer staff, or fewer days of operation. This legislation matters.

Public and Social Policy 87

Public and Social Policy Governance Recruitment Nonprofits 87

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 10, 2023

The conference brings together hundreds of community activists, government officials, and bank community development officers. Additionally, due to the activism of NCRC and its members, community groups have often successfully mobilized to obtain additional commitments, particularly in exchange for community support of mergers.

Finance 106

Finance Law Governance Entrepreneurship 106

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The resources involved were modest ($240,000 total) but the ambition was large—namely, to assist Native nations to “regain control of their land and natural resources, revitalize traditional stewardship practices, and build sustainable stewardship initiatives that contribute to tribal economic and community development opportunities.”

Nonprofit governance and management 137

Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Environmental Food 137

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

million active employee-owners. The primary employee-ownership technical assistance providers in the state—the Center for Community Wealth Building , Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center , and Rocky Mountain Farmers Union Cooperative Development Center —now have direct support from OEDIT to advance conversions.

Public and Social Policy 101

Public and Social Policy Finance Governance Culture 101

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

v] He described cooperative business as the variety of ways in which Black people shared the costs, risks, and benefits of economic activity. The goal of collective business was to help Black families and communities. Du Bois referred to the collective work of Black people through the avenue of cooperative business. [v]

Insurance 126

Insurance Universities Finance Foundations 126

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 8, 2023

Arturo Mendez, a representative for Mission Arts Performance Project —a community-centered project that activates spaces around the Mission—believes this effort is critical to the community’s health. “We want to turn it into a publicly accessible greenway because this block has gotten increasingly dense.”

Activism 72

Activism Children Health Community Development 72

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Two White women and one Black woman, who shared a history of food and farm activism, led the initial campaign to form Louisville Community Grocery. The current Louisville co-op organizing effort is committed to BIPOC leadership, a departure from earlier food activism practices. Notes See also L. Halliday and M.

Food 104

Food Construction Public and Social Policy Governance 104

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

AUGUST 20, 2023

Advocacy is a powerful tool in a nonprofit’s toolkit that can be used to mobilize the community, develop effective solutions, and educate those who have the authority to draft and enact legislation. Now imagine those programs with fewer activities, fewer staff, or fewer days of operation. This legislation matters.

Public and Social Policy 52

Public and Social Policy Governance Recruitment Nonprofits 52

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Community development financial institutions (CDFIs) have a mission to counter redlining and support lending in low-income and BIPOC communities. Two years ago, the Washington Post analyzed some $49.5 billion in pledges reported by the top 50 firms and found that “more than 90 percent of that amount—$45.2

Finance 124

Finance Leadership Associations Foundations 124

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

Wind energy comes to New York City New York State is continuing to meet its renewable energy targets by issuing offshore wind energy and contracts to developers. Currently, there are five active wind development projects in the state.

Energy 126

Energy Environmental Finance Governance 126

Bloomerang

JUNE 17, 2022

The foundation provides grants for projects and nonprofits that are positively impacting the Asian & Pacific Islander LGBTQ+ communities. They offer grants through three areas of funding: Community Grants Program, Crisis Community Care Fund, and the Oregon Immigrant and Refugee Funders Collaborative. Pride Foundation.

Foundations 121

Foundations Culture Health Charitable Contribution 121

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2024

CRH’s salvation eventually came in the form of a collaborative approach, pivoting toward a combination of emergency funding provided by a small family foundation; a nonprofit, non-extractive loan fund; a third-party investment firm; and a coalition of Latinx community development financial institutions (CDFIs). Winning the Lottery?

Finance 102

Finance Non-Profits Collaborations Public and Nonprofit Management 102

Ann Green

APRIL 7, 2015

Activate donors with stories about how your organization is impacting the local community. Build relationships through personalized newsletters and other forms of communication—the telephone and in-person chats are still valid tactics. Keep social channels active after a giving day. Create community. Share results.

Universities 73

Universities Finance Community Development Foundations 73

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

They hold the power to drive change by filling critical gaps that other capital allocators do not, including: Moving money to more inclusive banks (such as minority depository institutions or community development financial institutions ), which can leverage the assets to increase lending and services to underserved communities.

Finance 73

Finance Culture Foundations Public and Social Policy 73

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Integrated into day-to-day NGO activities: Fundraising is often relegated to a “fundraising department” or “person,” however, in the future fundraising will soon be integrated into all operations and program activities. 81% of donors in Mexico volunteer. 40% attend fundraising events. 93% regularly vote.

Disaster Relief 78

Disaster Relief Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management Social Enterprise 78

Pam Moore

APRIL 30, 2019

How to Activate Your Social Media Audience and Communities Digital Marketing 2019: 5 Mindset Shifts Marketers Must Make. Take Action: Download the Ultimate 2019 Content Calendar Template. . Related Stories Staying Relevant in a Digital World Not Pushing Play Ready, Set, Action!

Marketing 108

Marketing Marketing Activism Non-Profits 108

Care2

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Nonprofits and their staff will learn to engage a community, develop a blog strategy, define key metrics, scale up activities and sustain projects via the latest tools. Furthermore, Social By Social document pioneers like Simon Berry who used new media to successfully lobby the Coca Cola Corporation to support African aid.

Community Development 49

Community Development Technology Activism Communication 49

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 25, 2023

A salient example is of organizations that are focused on community development but invest in mass incarceration. Liquidity policies help organizations understand the resources needed to carry out ongoing operating activities, but even liquid assets can be managed with an eye towards mission.

Public and Social Policy 106

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Non-Profits 106