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

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Back in 2012, longtime CLT advocate John Emmeus Davis wrote in Shelterforce that collaboration between the land banks and CLTs is, to use the hackneyed phrase, an obvious “win-win.” While these objectives differ, there is a clear overlap of priorities and opportunities to advance shared equitable community development goals.

Public and Social Policy 104

Public and Social Policy Governance Community Development Agriculture 104

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. The collaboration between the tenant unions created the pressure needed to bring about change.

Law 97

Law Cultural Diversity Community Development Children 97

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 13, 2022

billion, a National Governors Association memo cites. More importantly, it sparked conversations and collaboration. That relationship didn’t exist with SPU (Seattle Public Utilities) before the pilot,” said César García, a pilot community participant and cofounder of the Seattle based organization, Lake City Collective.

Public and Social Policy 119

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Collaborations Universities 119

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

This type of community-owned solar will be the first of its kind in Brooklyn.” The project has been evolving as we learn and collaborate with our partners. Over the next few months, UPROSE will engage in community outreach to enroll subscribers.

Energy 120

Energy Environmental Finance Governance 120

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2022

A key moment in Mississippi’s food justice movement occurred 50 years ago, with the founding of the Mississippi Association of Cooperatives (MAC), a coalition of Black farmers who formed 10 worker-owned cooperative farms to gain economic security and improve their quality of life.

Food 109

Food Agriculture Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 109

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Developing Healthy Individuals “Positive psychology is the scientific study of what makes individuals and communities thrive.”— International Positive Psychology Association When focusing on a healthy context, there is a risk of falling into naïve holism, an ineffective mindset commonly seen in system perspectives.

Philanthropy 125

Philanthropy Homelessness Psychology Health 125

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.

Finance 84

Finance Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Education 84

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Nelson Colón of the Puerto Rico Community Foundation, and Clara Miller, president emerita of the Heron Foundation—come from philanthropy. Nonprofits would be trusted to hire the right consultants and form partnerships that are collaborative and generative toward their racial and economic justice goals.

Public and Social Policy 113

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 113

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The composition of leadership shifted soon after the grocery’s formal incorporation in mid-2019, with the first LCG and LACE (Louisville Association for Community Economics, the nonprofit developer of the grocery store) board elections seeing candidates of color chosen for a majority of seats. Notes See also L. Halliday and M.

Food 101

Food Construction Public and Social Policy Governance 101

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

Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And just some areas I wanted to share with you just so that you know the kind of funding that’s going to be out there is that 65 billion is going to be directed towards counties, and many of them are going to be in the form of community development block grants. So that’s great. So thanks for sharing that.

Nonprofit governance and management 114

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development Foundations 114

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Since 2017, Funders for Housing and Opportunity (FHO), a funder collaborative that believes a stable, affordable home is the foundation for health, opportunity, and justice, has directed about a third of its $17 million in grants to policy advocacy and organizing.

Public and Social Policy 100

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Poverty Health 100