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What Is a Community Development Corporation?

NonProfit Quarterly

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. CDCs are dead.

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Nonprofit Marketing Jobs: March 23, 2012

Getting Attention

3) Communications Associate and Director of Development and Communications. National Alliance to End Homelessness (Washington, D.C.). 4) Communications Coordinator , EMILY’S List (Washington, D.C.). 5) Communications Director , Progress Michigan (Lansing, MI). Project Vote Smart (Philipsburg, MT).

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Seven Steps to Overcoming the Fear of Calling Potential Funders

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

In my fundraising work with smaller nonprofit organizations, the number one thing I see hindering our grantwriting projects is staff members’ fear of calling potential foundation funders to introduce the organization and to inquire about the possible fit of project(s) with the funder’s interests. small development shop.

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Driving Change in Housing Policies With Advocacy and Organizing

Stanford Social Innovation Review

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.