NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Even as the slow wheels of policy change grind away to address discrimination in the banking system through modernizing the Community Reinvestment Act (along with other initiatives ), allocators of philanthropic and impact investment capital can use tools they have at their disposal right now to change the field.

Finance 71

Finance Culture Foundations Public and Social Policy 71

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Image credit: Christian Ouellet on istock.com Financing challenges often stymie nonprofits. The lack of access to financing [meant that the grant] nearly destroyed the organization. An ally had reached out separately to Seed Commons , a cooperative network of funds that finance worker cooperatives across the United States.

Finance 97

Finance Non-Profits Collaborations Public and Nonprofit Management 97

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 102

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Non-Profits 102

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 97

Public and Social Policy Finance Governance Culture 97

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

After the War on Poverty came Urban Renewal, Model Cities, the development of CDCs (Community Development Corporations) and LISC (Local Initiatives Support Corporation), an intermediary launched by the Ford Foundation to finance CDCs.

Public and Social Policy 109

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Governance 109

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 103

Finance Law Governance Entrepreneurship 103

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 119

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Community Development 119

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 108

Entrepreneurship Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations 108

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2023

In response, our two groups—the Latino Support Network , a local community development corporation, and Grassroots Finance Action , a consortium of savings group experts—decided to test whether, with a small financial investment, the reach of these savings circles could be extended to immigrants in Lynn more broadly.

Finance 99

Finance Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management Construction 99

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

The solar developer builds clean-energy projects that help communities acquire long-term wealth and energy assets through impact investing, technical support, and project financing. This model will allow UPROSE to earn revenue that can be directed to a community fund to help vulnerable individuals and families in Sunset Park.

Energy 123

Energy Environmental Finance Governance 123

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. Cooperatives are companies owned by the people they use their services. [ii]

Insurance 122

Insurance Universities Finance Foundations 122

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The diffusion of new and innovative models of community-owned commercial real estate is enhancing resident power and self-determination. Yet too often they have been thwarted by racial capitalism and its enabling institutions—such as legal frameworks, regulatory environments, finance protocols, norms, and beliefs.

Finance 88

Finance Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Education 88

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 93

Construction Community Development Governance Environmental 93

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

AUGUST 16, 2023

Image credit: Corey Agopian on unsplash.com This article concludes NPQ’s series Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. It also laid out the building blocks to achieving three key goals: Establish the infrastructure and processes to drive inclusive equitable community development. A falta de pan, casabe.

Community Development 86

Community Development Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Cultural Diversity 86

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 102

Culture Community Development Collaborations Activism 102

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 95

Culture Construction Community Development Education 95

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

How can we develop an intentional strategy to realize such outcomes—strategies that empower communities to actively improve their quality of life?”. In Rhode Island, we were also inspired by a new model of public safety work being carried out in Providence.

Health 114

Health Race and Ethnicity Food Children 114

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. There are specific funding strategies that philanthropy can employ to shield artists from the capitalist market.

Philanthropy 87

Philanthropy Culture Agriculture Community Development 87

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 106

Public and Social Policy Governance Community Development Agriculture 106

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Sara Razavi: Within the CDFI [ community development financial institution ] space, we are a nonprofit loan fund. Like many immigrant communities, the idea that we would make all these sacrifices and then do the arts—it was just assumed that you would never do that. There is a correlation absolutely with communities of color.

Nonprofit Management 107

Nonprofit Management Management Sociology Collaborations 107

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 103

Food Construction Public and Social Policy Governance 103

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 12, 2023

In so doing, this early childhood education provides the basis for young people to develop later in life into the active decision makers and co-creators that cooperative enterprises require. But economic democracy can be taught in any community. Bring union representatives in to teach the basics of banking and finance.

Curriculum and Teaching 98

Curriculum and Teaching Education Education Public and Nonprofit Management 98

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

For instance, the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule (AFFH) is a major federal tool to go beyond just prohibiting housing discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status, and disability—it requires actively dismantling of the systems past discrimination left in its wake.

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Poverty Health 111

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

They taught me about managing my finances and helped me find daycare. For state-level policy, we regularly engage with groups like the Worker-Owned Recovery California (WORC) Coalition and the New York State Community Equity Agenda. At times when I was struggling, they loaned me money. Every [opportunity] they threw at me, I took it.

Public Policy 72

Public Policy Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 72

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

19 While the need to employ an intersectional lens in movement work is widely acknowledged at a theoretical level, 20 actual movement activity often falls into narrower silos. Conservative politicians and business lobbyists wielded labor law to suppress union activity, such as making boycotts and solidarity strikes illegal.

Public and Social Policy 73

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 73

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 21, 2023

By Vurayayi Pugeni , Caroline Pugeni & Dan Maxson International community development has changed significantly over its history, shifting from primarily responding to disaster events to improving communities using a sectoral approach to issues like health, agriculture, and water and sanitation.

Culture 52

Culture Agriculture Values Health 52

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2023

We believe that the world that our planet and everyday people need is often within reach, waiting for us to take hold, take root, take action and to re-shape our everyday lives through radical collaboration, collective activism and a world of care. Minnie, do you want to talk a little bit about financing community land trusts?

Public and Social Policy 88

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Food Nonprofit governance and management 88

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 26, 2023

2020 found New Haven residents, organized by the coalition New Haven Rising, storming the city’s March 30th Zoom budget meeting to express their disgust at Yale University’s continued strain on the city’s finances. And the city’s residents were starting to push back.

Education 83

Education Education Universities Public and Nonprofit Management 83