NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 13, 2023

Through collaborative action, Mothers Out Front East Boston is fighting for the right to breathe clean air and live and work in a community that is safe and healthy. Though our neighbor, Massport is inaccessible to our community. We are demanding equal protection and equal enforcement of environmental laws and regulations.

Race and Ethnicity 124

Race and Ethnicity Health Environmental Children 124

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

And in so doing we are challenging the community development field to do better—by creating new tools to support truly equitable food-oriented development. Many large community development financial institutions , credit unions, and foundations present themselves as community-based food financing leaders.

Food 117

Food Finance Community Development Culture 117

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2023

For instance, Art.coop and Grantmakers in the Arts are collaborating to educate funders about power-shifting and solidarity principles, creating shared language and frameworks that funders can draw on as they develop and implement funding strategies. Artists are essential to any vision that calls the future into question.

Philanthropy 104

Philanthropy Culture Agriculture Community Development 104

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Since January 2020, I’ve had the honor of leading the United Northeast Community Development Corporation (UNEC), a neighborhood-based community development corporation founded and led by residents of Northeast Indianapolis, a center of Black life in this Midwestern city for generations.

Food 105

Food Public and Nonprofit Management Medical Community Development 105

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 16, 2023

NGOs scaled solutions to educational problems in India for decades without sufficient reading or math improvement. The proposed work would integrate fundamental changes in programs and policies to transform driver education, active and latent safety measures, and the built environment. No one wants to become homeless.

Philanthropy 125

Philanthropy Homelessness Psychology Health 125

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 11, 2023

Also, because successful collaborations with local actors benefited all collaborators, one success bred another, creating a chain reaction of more local bricolage that extended the ventures’ duration. Neighborhood book clubs were repurposed as platforms with which to educate pet owners.

Entrepreneurship 126

Entrepreneurship Collaborations Finance Food 126

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

AUGUST 20, 2023

Advocacy is a powerful tool in a nonprofit’s toolkit that can be used to mobilize the community, develop effective solutions, and educate those who have the authority to draft and enact legislation. That measure seeks to foster much need for collaboration by and with governments.

Public and Social Policy 87

Public and Social Policy Governance Recruitment Nonprofits 87

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Given this recent investment in outreach and education efforts, coupled with heightened interest from local governments, we expect to see many more employee-owned businesses statewide in the next five years. OEDIT has successfully incorporated community wealth building as a pillar of its economic development toolkit.

Public and Social Policy 115

Public and Social Policy Finance Governance Culture 115

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The addition of more classes in the multi-stakeholder framework reflects lessons learned over seven years of self-education, activism, and fundraising. Moving Forward LACE and the Law School Diversity Committee worked together to host a series of events to educate the community about cooperatives and their history in Black communities.

Food 107

Food Construction Public and Social Policy Governance 107

Bloomerang

JUNE 17, 2022

Pride Foundation provides critical funding to the community organizations that are actively addressing the needs of and expanding opportunities for LGBTQ+ people in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. Priority is given to projects that collaborate with and center LGBTQ+ voices and communities. PFund Foundation.

Foundations 121

Foundations Culture Health Charitable Contribution 121

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

To participate, community members can purchase an ownership share in the enterprise, contingent on completing an eight-hour financial education course. Duranti-Martinez highlights the “strong local ecosystems, public support, and collaboration among cooperatives” (21) that are enabling such rapid growth.

Public and Nonprofit Management 103

Public and Nonprofit Management Participation and motivation Nonprofit governance and management Poverty 103

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

AUGUST 20, 2023

Advocacy is a powerful tool in a nonprofit’s toolkit that can be used to mobilize the community, develop effective solutions, and educate those who have the authority to draft and enact legislation. That measure seeks to foster much need for collaboration by and with governments.

Public and Social Policy 52

Public and Social Policy Governance Recruitment Nonprofits 52

The Agitator

MARCH 25, 2013

million) enables peer learning and collaboration among more than 100 affordable housing and community development leaders. Southwest Organizing Project – Chicago, Illinois ($750,000) educates, mobilizes, and empowers communities in Chicago to help overcome foreclosures and violence.

Foundations 79

Foundations Nonprofits Law Energy 79

GiveGab

JUNE 14, 2022

So start with the suggestions we’ve covered in this article, and keep in mind that there are plenty of other great strategies out there that you can implement in addition that will help you make your community a better place. Sophie Konewko, Community Development Executive at Social Solutions. About the Author.

Management 52

Management Sociology Technology Urban development 52

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Fast forward to my family’s move to Portugal, where my mother was born, then to the United States, where, in 1998, I found a job with the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) as an education and outreach coordinator. Connecticut and Delaware have also created similar community-rooted collaboratives.

Health 120

Health Race and Ethnicity Food Children 120

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 17, 2023

Most practitioners working in community development have accepted this as the reality of impact investing: The harder you drive for social impact in disadvantaged communities, the farther away you get from unbuffered full market return.

Marketing 108

Marketing Marketing Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management 108

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. There’s more in there. So that’s great.

Nonprofit governance and management 114

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

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 12, 2023

But to build cooperative intelligence, cooperative education needs to start at a much earlier age. Such, at least, is the thesis of work I’ve been involved in to create a cooperative education curriculum at the high school level in the Bronx. In Dare the School Build a New Social Order? ,

Curriculum and Teaching 103

Curriculum and Teaching Education Education Public and Nonprofit Management 103

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 17, 2024

Despite their best intentions, minority deposit institutions (MDIs) and community development financial institutions (CDFIs), like other small banks, simply lack the capital base to close the racial gap. The people of Massachusetts are also pushing for a public bank to benefit small businesses and community development.

Public and Social Policy 133

Public and Social Policy Finance Governance Disaster Relief 133

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 26, 2023

We have largely presumed that higher education is an inherent public good, most clearly marked by its tax-exempt status. Because higher education institutions provide the public good of education to surrounding communities, their property holdings are exempt from taxation in all 50 states.

Education 96

Education Education Universities Public and Nonprofit Management 96

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. One way that solidarity economy groups, such as worker cooperatives, have done this is through study groups and education and training programs.

Finance 109

Finance Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Education 109

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 129

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 129

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The West Holmes Community Development Organization, which traces its origins to one of these farms, modernized their cooperative farm and started a farmer’s market , which now forms part of a youth-led, sustainable food system for Mileston and Holmes County.

Food 122

Food Agriculture Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 122

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

These new laws channeled philanthropic assets into municipal bonds and community development loan funds, which stabilized local municipalities. We witnessed huge shifts to public education with dramatic differences in per-pupil spending, because resources were no longer allocated by zip code.

Public and Social Policy 128

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Taxation 128

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

It’s a collaborative facilitation and consulting firm. That a charter school here or there can do really important work is not the same thing as investing at a deep level in public education. It brings up a lot of questions that are practical. I remember there was a competition for a big initiative.

Public and Social Policy 102

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance Public and Nonprofit Management 102

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

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

If nonprofit and community organizations were able to restore the self-financing that was once the norm for social movements, they could begin to do the work of moving society away from its extractive and exploitative practices. 41 Mutualism harnesses the human tendency to collaborate, share, and construct institutions that last.

Public and Social Policy 89

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 89

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. So that is part of community ownership and wealth and well-being. [00:15:58]

Public and Social Policy 102

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Food Nonprofit governance and management 102