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What’s Next for Community Development Finance?

NonProfit Quarterly

Posters at the conference highlighted that the first OFN conference in 1985 attracted 21 community development loan funds with a combined $27 million in assets under management. By contrast, according to the US SIF (Sustainable Investment Forum), the CDFI industry (including community development banks and credit unions) had $457.9

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Busting the Overhead Myth

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

How can nonprofits convince stakeholders to invest in capacity building? Capacity building is whatever is needed to bring a nonprofit to the next level of operational, programmatic, financial, or organizational maturity, so it may more effectively and efficiently advance its mission into the future. What is the Overhead Myth?

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KPIs You Should Be Tracking in a Nonprofit

The Charity CFO

Successful nonprofits and for-profit businesses alike use a variety of key performance indicators (KPIs) to help track their organizations performance. This guide will explore some of the most common nonprofit KPIsincluding how to calculate themto help you pick the right KPIs for your nonprofit.

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Credit Unions, Race, and Equity: A Conversation with Michael McCray and Cliff Rosenthal

NonProfit Quarterly

In 1979, I discovered financial cooperatives—namely, credit unions—and I joined the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions in 1980. Michael McCray: I was born into community development finance. Lots of credit unions were created that were associated with anti-poverty associations.

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2024 Nonprofit Voter Guide

MNA Association

We know that decisions made in Helena and in Washington, DC have an enormous impact on our work as nonprofits. We also know that partnering with government and the public sector is critical to advance our missions and build thriving communities. We are excited to share the responses with you in our Nonprofit Voter Guide.

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Building Social Housing from the Ground Up: Grassroots Perspectives

NonProfit Quarterly

Social housing is not just about providing shelter but creating high-quality, permanently affordable housing across a range of incomes that are owned or controlled by a public agency, a nonprofit, or a cooperative of tenants themselves. There is also resistance within the affordable housing community.

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” W hat would a nonprofit sector that pursued economic justice look like? The other five work for nonprofit intermediary organizations. Two of them—Dr.