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. These are home values, rent prices, median household income, percentage of residents who are college educated, and percentage of residents who are White.

Culture 95

Culture Construction Community Development Education 95

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

After seven years of kitchen-table and Zoom organizing, a multi-stakeholder, cooperative, community-owned grocery store is taking shape in Louisville, KY. In October, the metro council of Louisville’s combined city-county government voted to allocate $3.5 million to help make a co-op grocery a reality. We secured $3.5

Food 102

Food Construction Public and Social Policy Governance 102

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 87

Philanthropy Culture Agriculture Community Development 87

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

Con Edison then ascribes the value of that energy, which is what gets discounted. That ascribed value will be at least 15 percent less than a standard Con Edison electricity bill. Currently, there are five active wind development projects in the state.

Energy 122

Energy Environmental Finance Governance 122

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 97

Finance Non-Profits Collaborations Public and Nonprofit Management 97

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

Pam Moore

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

What about the LED lighting brands, oil and gas, manufacturing, government regulated, healthcare and the hundreds of other industries, products and services that simply are not something we all go to Facebook to talk about? What is your core value proposition? He liked the photos with our family, team and communities we serve.

Marketing 167

Marketing Marketing Values Advertising 167

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 101

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Non-Profits 101

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Image credit: Drew Beamer on Unsplash For community development financial institutions (CDFIs), these are extraordinary times. A true partnership between banks and CDFIs would be…organized around the idea of restoring the value of the local banking relationship. Grzywinski added that government regulators, too, have a role.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 97

Nonprofit Administration and Development Finance Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 97

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 88

Community Development Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Cultural Diversity 88

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

We know it’s a story of extraction, [of] government reliance on the nonprofit world, but that felt like a whole lot bigger than TBF. And there’s a way that that language gets co-opted as anti-government. It’s structurally incentivized—foundations and government funders are keeping this inadequate system churning. And that hurts.

Public and Social Policy 93

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance Public and Nonprofit Management 93

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 87

Finance Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Education 87

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 22, 2022

As a result of the movements of the 1960s, the US government and nonprofit agencies strengthened social safety nets. This was especially true at the county and municipal levels, where community organizing resulted in policy wins that benefited the most vulnerable, despite a conservative backlash that eventually defunded many federal programs.

Philanthropy 112

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Healthcare Universities 112

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2022

But while the DRA is a valued partner for community groups, food justice activism in the delta, particularly among Black farmers and community organizations, precedes the authority’s creation. In 2000, Congress created the Delta Regional Authority (DRA) to address these issues.

Food 111

Food Agriculture Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 111

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 12, 2023

It requires seeding education in diverse educational spaces and developing pedagogical practices capable of building coherent cultures of democracy that align with movement values of cooperation and democracy. Their reflections reinforced the value of what I call coherence, or integrated, learning.

Curriculum and Teaching 98

Curriculum and Teaching Education Education Public and Nonprofit Management 98

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 26, 2023

4 Once on Prospect, I was awash in a sea of excitement and activity as over 150 residents, labor activists, students, and onlookers buzzed about, handing out food and water, playing with young children, stewarding informational tables, dancing to the music, and finishing a massive art project that immediately drew my attention.

Education 85

Education Education Universities Public and Nonprofit Management 85

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

After all, if one has been unfairly terminated from a job, being reinstated due to a successful civil rights claim, while certainly still of value, is less valuable if the person, after being reinstated in the job, is likely to have to find another job within a few years.

Public and Social Policy 74

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 74

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. So there’s the like asset ownership and then there’s governance and that goes quite deep.

Public and Social Policy 89

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Food Nonprofit governance and management 89

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

With the WORK Act, tens of millions of dollars in government resources will be disbursed to employee-ownership centers around the country, fundamentally changing the playing field for worker-owners, freelancers, and cooperative innovators. What if that scale of resources flowed to our communities instead of to Wall Street?

Public Policy 74

Public Policy Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 74