Associations, Community Development and Food

Setting a Co-op Table for Food Justice in Louisville

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

And, as in so many other cities, Louisville’s predominantly Black neighborhoods are subject to food apartheid. Downtown grocery stores have recently disappeared, exacerbating food apartheid: between 2016 and 2018, five grocery stores in Louisville’s urban core closed. Some of these projects were top-down in conception and execution.

Food

Food Construction Public and Social Policy Governance

Building Community through Holistic Strategy: A Story from a Seattle Immigrant Suburb

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Image credit: TuiPhotoengineer on istock.com This is the fifth and final 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 ).

Community Development

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Preserving Cambodia Town: How A Refugee Community Has Organized Itself

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Image credit: Ian Nicole Reambonanza on Unsplash This is the fourth 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 ). How does a refugee community organize itself?

Race and Ethnicity

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Black Co-op Farms: Building a Worker Strategy in Mississippi

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This article concludes Black Food Sovereignty: Stories from the Field , a series that has been co-produced by Frontline Solutions and NPQ. This series features stories from a group of Black food sovereignty leaders who are working to transform the food system at the local level.

Food

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Nuestra Comunidad: Tools to Preserve Latinx and Immigrant Communities

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

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¡Adelante! A Latinx Community Organizes to Generate Community Wealth

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. In 2020, they started to sell their products and foodstuffs in local farmers markets in the Washington County communities of Forest Grove and Cornelius. These are just two of many examples.

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Can CDFIs Rein in Capitalist Excess?

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Last month, the Opportunity Finance Network (OFN), the nation’s leading community development financial institution (CDFI) trade association, held its first in-person national conference in three years in New York City. “It’s our job somehow to graft a conscience on the capitalist.”. Chuck Matthei, CDFI movement cofounder, 1985.

Finance

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How to Align Assets with Mission: Small Steps That Nonprofits Can Take

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 25, 2023

A salient example is of organizations that are focused on community development but invest in mass incarceration. To choose an adviser, they convened a committee of staff and board members to issue a request for proposals and interview advisers who would uphold their organizational priorities to fight food insecurity. “In

Public and Social Policy

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How Resident-Owned Communities Can Create Mass Affordable Homeownership

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Image credit: “ Nature, food, landscape, travel ” on istock.com Creating and preserving quality affordable housing is notoriously difficult, with the number of available units declining each year as landlords raise rents ever higher. But this increases the cost of servicing the resultant larger loans.

Manufacturing

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How Black Entrepreneurs Forged a Community Path to Business Success

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Sharing resources allows them to grow healthier food, to purchase land, and sometimes to buy tractors and equipment for farming. [ii] Cooperative organizations can be federations of workers, farmers, and landowners; mutual insurance companies; or banks and credit unions.

Insurance

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

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. In a massive charitable response, vast networks of locally supported food pantries, coat drives, homeless shelters, community clinics, and free schools have been launched and sustained.

Public and Social Policy

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Seeding Solidarity Economies: What’s Behind the Emerging Ecosystems

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. Another area of rapid growth is Black-led food cooperatives, which are forming across the country, including in Dayton , OH; Detroit, MI; and the Boston neighborhood of Dorchester.

Finance

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Cooperation Jackson at 10: Lessons for Building a Solidarity Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

But it was through this kind of collective association, largely of women, in Los Angeles that we got fresh produce. It was something that I knew existed, but I didn’t know how dependent I was on it until I got to college and started to pay my own food bills. That co-op, that CSA, was a lifesaver for us.

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Friday Futures

Getting Attention

AUGUST 3, 2012

3) Communications Coordinator , The Immunization Partnership (Houston, TX). Food & Water Watch (Washington, D.C.). 6) Manager, Community Development , Arthritis Foundation (Philadelphia, PA). 7) Marketing and Sales Intern and Media and Communications Intern. 15) Webmaster/Communications Associate.

Public and Nonprofit Management

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Nonprofit Marketing Jobs: March 23, 2012

Getting Attention

MARCH 22, 2012

1) Business Development Manager and. 2) Communications Associate. 3) Communications Associate and Director of Development and Communications. 4) Communications Coordinator , EMILY’S List (Washington, D.C.). 5) Communications Director , Progress Michigan (Lansing, MI).

Marketing

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Unlikely Advocates: Worker Co-ops, Grassroots Organizing, and Public Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

In cases where bills do benefit the latter groups, those provisions are directly tied to the presence of unions, cooperatives, and other labor associations that have “connected” relationships and some sort of presence on the Hill. Many agricultural and food policy groups engage with policy in a similar, though limited, fashion.

Public Policy

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[VIDEO] Building a Better Grants Strategy Post-COVID

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. And it’s also just centrally located in the community.

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Nonprofit Leadership Zone

Setting a Co-op Table for Food Justice in Louisville

Building Community through Holistic Strategy: A Story from a Seattle Immigrant Suburb

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Preserving Cambodia Town: How A Refugee Community Has Organized Itself

Black Co-op Farms: Building a Worker Strategy in Mississippi

Nuestra Comunidad: Tools to Preserve Latinx and Immigrant Communities

¡Adelante! A Latinx Community Organizes to Generate Community Wealth

Can CDFIs Rein in Capitalist Excess?

How to Align Assets with Mission: Small Steps That Nonprofits Can Take

How Resident-Owned Communities Can Create Mass Affordable Homeownership

How Black Entrepreneurs Forged a Community Path to Business Success

Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

Seeding Solidarity Economies: What’s Behind the Emerging Ecosystems

Cooperation Jackson at 10: Lessons for Building a Solidarity Economy

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[VIDEO] Building a Better Grants Strategy Post-COVID

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