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 128

Culture Retail Community Development Environmental 128

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 127

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Non-Profits 127

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 17, 2024

We know that the racial homeownership gap is, in large measure, the product of historic redlining , as well as past and ongoing discrimination. A Community Finance Solution While barriers to homeownership persist for households of color, these barriers are possible to overcome. This is known as the secondary market.

Finance 131

Finance Production Insurance Values 131

Anedot

APRIL 8, 2025

Reporting to the Board of Directors, the ED represents WMCS to funders, government agencies, external partners, and the wider community while ensuring that services evolve to meet changing needs. Be involved in ongoing cultivation of new donors, stewardship of existing donors and actively participate in all fundraising activities.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 52

Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 52

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Local government wins because properties are back in productive use, generating taxes. The community wins because there is now permanently affordable housing that can forestall gentrification. While these objectives differ, there is a clear overlap of priorities and opportunities to advance shared equitable community development goals.

Public and Social Policy 116

Public and Social Policy Community Development Governance Agriculture 116

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 110

Culture Foundations Education Education 110

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. TAGI grows and sells fruit and vegetables while centering community engagement. They come with their own challenges.

Food 127

Food Agriculture Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 127

Pam Moore

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

They may like to also talk with the people who work for the brand, use the brand's products or services or are simply part of the community surrounding the brand. Is the business value worth the investment compared to other marketing and business activities you could be investing in? What about the boring brands? Let’s get real.

Marketing 167

Marketing Marketing Advertising Values 167

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Universities, as Baldwin has detailed , turn their research into lucrative commercial goods and patents in a range of fields, from the pharmaceutical industries and software products to health services and military defense weaponry. A key activity was holding monthly potlucks to build trust among community members.

Universities 120

Universities Curriculum and Teaching Participation and motivation Culture 120

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 98

Construction Community Development Governance Environmental 98

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The climate crisis is not only a product of greenhouse gas emissions… but also of an ideological shift that was imposed by colonization and capitalism to justify violation of sacred land-, water-, and airways—domination that taught Americans to speak of “resources” instead of “relatives.”. The Path Forward.

Nonprofit governance and management 140

Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Food Environmental 140

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 5, 2024

We accept unsolicited applications, but by actively engaging current grantees in referring and evaluating the proposals of future grantees, our process facilitates a more systemic view of the problem we are trying to solve, as well as a productive collaboration between groups working on the problem.

Philanthropy 126

Philanthropy Culture Foundations Leadership 126

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. Latinx and other immigrant community commercial corridors allow residents to access foods and products native to their country of origin and, therefore, help preserve their cultural identity.

Culture 98

Culture Construction Community Development Education 98

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 9, 2023

Image credit: Kenny Eliason on unsplash.com This is the fifth article in NPQ ’s series titled Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. The Latinx community successfully organized and resisted this. MEDA, a community organization formed in 1973, was a product of this activism.

Culture 98

Culture Cultural Diversity Public and Nonprofit Management Community Development 98

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

I entered a history department because I wanted to understand this as a product of history, as not inevitable but the product of choices that people had made. But, if you need to justify your own activities and seek funding, it’s easier to talk about improving outcomes and let the broader context fall away.

Public and Social Policy 106

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance Public and Nonprofit Management 106

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Here, it is important to recognize the vital role that access to financial products and services—everything from opening a bank account to building credit or accessing loans—plays in the economy. Credit history is a key determinant of credit scores, which are then used to get approval for financial products like credit cards and loans.

Finance 80

Finance Culture Foundations Public and Social Policy 80

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. The time is right to advance this work in a coordinated, productive fashion.

Curriculum and Teaching 106

Curriculum and Teaching Education Education Public and Nonprofit Management 106

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 Community Development Nonprofit governance and management Leadership 52

Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Through CSR initiatives, companies aim to give back to society by addressing various issues such as sustainability, community development, employee welfare, ethical business practices, and philanthropic involvement. This initiative funds programs for HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention in sub-Saharan Africa.

Volunteerism 52

Volunteerism Volunteerism Disaster Relief Food 52

Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The prompts were refined to hone the list more, and the query and response activity ultimately revealed the four power chords that lead to effective nonprofit appeals campaigns. Digital Events: Hosted virtual events and discussions to deepen engagement and community feeling during Pride Month. Please cite sources.”

Nonprofit Administration and Development 104

Nonprofit Administration and Development Children Nonprofits Collaborations 104

Nonprofit Megaphone

AUGUST 26, 2024

For example, you can’t use your Google Ad Grant funds to promote anything outside the scope of your nonprofit’s mission, and you can’t use the money to sell products that don’t contribute to your organization’s charitable efforts. Log into your account, navigate to the “Products” menu, then select “Get Started” under Google Ad Grants.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofits Management 98

Nonprofit Megaphone

AUGUST 9, 2024

For example, you can’t use your Google Ad Grant funds to promote anything outside the scope of your nonprofit’s mission, and you can’t use the money to sell products that don’t contribute to your organization’s charitable efforts. Log into your account, navigate to the “Products” menu, then select “Get Started” under Google Ad Grants.

Public and Nonprofit Management 98

Public and Nonprofit Management Public and Social Policy Nonprofits Management 98

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 128

Community Development Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management Leadership 128

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. Redlining is a product of someone’s imagination, you know, all these things, you know? [00:19:10]

Public and Social Policy 106

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Food Nonprofit governance and management 106

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 31, 2024

At stake is whether or not frontline BIPOC communities are able to capitalize on a key provision of the IRA that facilitates the rapid growth of community solar. Advocates are still fighting for community-driven and community-owned solar processes.

Energy 132

Energy Environmental Community Development Public Policy 132

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Image credit: coffeekai on istock.com Community is one of humanity’s great achievements. Yet community development corporations , a $28 billion sector of over 6,200 nonprofits that support local community economic development, are largely invisible in the national conversation. But numbers only get you so far.

Community Development 135

Community Development Public and Social Policy Governance Production 135

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 30, 2024

By focusing so intensively on being better problem solvers, this perspective has largely missed the corresponding strategy that development objectives can also be achieved by reducing the occurrence of problems in the first place. I4HC is community development that is grounded in an explicit development focus on healthy context.

Health 118

Health Public and Social Policy Medical Governance 118

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Enter community development financial institutions (CDFIs). Temple Foundation was advised that there are reasons that CDFI offices are not based in East Texas, the main reason being that there is simply not enough entrepreneurship activity or business opportunities to sustain their operations.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 111

Nonprofit Administration and Development Entrepreneurship Finance Agriculture 111

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 17, 2023

Coproduced by Partners for Rural Transformation, a coalition of six regional community development financial institutions, and NPQ , the authors highlight efforts to address multigenerational poverty in Appalachia, the rural West, Indian Country, South Texas, and the Mississippi Delta. Regions Bank was its only financial institution.

Poverty 131

Poverty Community Development Finance Philanthropy 131

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Sara Razavi: Within the CDFI [ community development financial institution ] space, we are a nonprofit loan fund. For me, similarly in a theater setting, you might have a small production where you are the playwright, actor, and director. Thankfully, we have an extremely simple product. You can teach your product.

Nonprofit Management 125

Nonprofit Management Management Sociology Collaborations 125

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

A recent study found that employee-owned businesses, defined as employee ownership of at least 30 percent of business shares, which all employees having access to owning, are more productive, grow faster, and are less likely to go out of business than non-employee-owned businesses. million active employee-owners.

Public and Social Policy 122

Public and Social Policy Finance Governance Non-Profits 122

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

My parents were both very active in the Black power movement. So, I grew up with this kind of focus and emphasis on concentrating on activism in the South. On both sides of my family, there are generations of political activists. That movement had a particular focus on the South.

Public and Social Policy 139

Public and Social Policy Education Education Recruitment 139

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 98

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 98

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?

Non-Profits 125

Non-Profits Finance Collaborations Public and Nonprofit Management 125

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

Indeed, many movement organizations subscribe to the creed that “‘capitalism is incompatible with actual democracy’ since it prioritizes the ‘private interests of capitalists,’ meaning ‘under capitalism there can be no production of social wealth without the profits of privately owned enterprises.’”

Public Policy 98

Public Policy Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 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 98

Education Education Universities Public and Nonprofit Management 98

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

7 They are the product of what happened when the American state assigned democratic processes of deliberation, representation, and participation to nonprofit entities, and the consequences of submitting those private entities to the whims of politics and the pressures of scarcity.

Public and Social Policy 125

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Governance 125