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 101

Food Finance Community Development Culture 101

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 1, 2023

So too is collaboration. BlacSpace is a cooperative that brings together expertise in real-estate ownership and development, cooperative structures, business systems, art making, activism, and cultural anchoring, stimulating conversations about cultural kitchens and a unique collaboration to cultivate them.

Culture 98

Culture Retail Community Development Collaborations 98

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 16, 2023

Image credit: Corey Agopian on unsplash.com This article concludes NPQ’s series Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. It also laid out the building blocks to achieving three key goals: Establish the infrastructure and processes to drive inclusive equitable community development. A falta de pan, casabe.

Community Development 85

Community Development Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Cultural Diversity 85

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

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. Black excellence abounds here.

Food 86

Food Public and Nonprofit Management Medical Community Development 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

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Sara Razavi: Within the CDFI [ community development financial institution ] space, we are a nonprofit loan fund. But I find I draw on it quite a bit because theater is such a collaborative art, and I am talking more about the collaborative nature of theater. So, that’s where the collaboration comes in.

Nonprofit Management 104

Nonprofit Management Management Sociology Collaborations 104

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 11, 2023

Regardless of their original vision, ACCEL founders—like many who seek venture capital financing—changed their ideas (or pivoted) so that their ventures could reach a national, if not global, market in three to five years, following a typical venture capital timeframe. As a result, the ventures’ growth was not fast, but steady and durable.

Entrepreneurship 112

Entrepreneurship Collaborations Finance Food 112

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 17, 2024

That dismal track record raised the ire of the US Small Business Administration’s inspector general, who condemned the agency’s failure to prioritize rural and underserved markets as the PPP program was rolled out. The people of Massachusetts are also pushing for a public bank to benefit small businesses and community development.

Public and Social Policy 125

Public and Social Policy Finance Governance Disaster Relief 125

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In its first two years, the NEW Fellowship was funded by Communities of Opportunity (which receives support from King County and the Seattle Foundation) and the New Economy Washington Funders Collaborative. The Seattle Foundation has been a leader in a national movement to build Black funds.

Nonprofit governance and management 96

Nonprofit governance and management Food Public and Nonprofit Management Environmental 96

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Decades of discriminatory housing, transportation, and land-use policy combined with economic disinvestment have resulted in communities that are residentially segregated by income, race, ethnicity, language, and immigration status. Flexible, Collaborative Learning. Creating a Learning Community.

Health 100

Health Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Philanthropy 100

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. A New Strategy .

Food 109

Food Agriculture Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 109

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2023

There are specific funding strategies that philanthropy can employ to shield artists from the capitalist market. Too often, funders aim to create a harmonious society through diversity, equity, and inclusion practices that only put more people into problematic systems. Artists are essential to any vision that calls the future into question.

Philanthropy 84

Philanthropy Culture Agriculture Community Development 84

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

“From Owing to Owning,” reads a sign at the entrance of Plaza 122, a 29,000-square-foot strip mall near the corner of SE 122nd Avenue and SE Market Street in Portland, OR. What makes the strip mall unique is its community ownership. Ownership is through a limited liability company.

Public and Nonprofit Management 93

Public and Nonprofit Management Participation and motivation Nonprofit governance and management Poverty 93

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. In Long Beach, CA, Latinx renters face increasing threats of gentrification and displacement.

Law 97

Law Cultural Diversity Community Development Children 97

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Ohers suffered from short planning horizons or insufficient community outreach. Meanwhile, a proliferation of farmers markets fueled the local food movement but marginally addressed food access. The volunteers also shopped for land, investigating at least 14 different properties, and commissioned market analyses for many of them.

Food 101

Food Construction Public and Social Policy Governance 101

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 22, 2023

But in 2016, a group of marine scientists and conservation managers collaborated with the community of Alligator Head to establish the East Portland Fishing Sanctuary , with the goal of restoring the island’s coast. This makes them extra-valuable in the newly emerging carbon credits market.

Education 87

Education Education Foundations Environmental 87

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. Black Lives Matter or Pride Month marketing campaigns might lead us to believe these movements are attracting all the funding they need, but they are not.

Public and Social Policy 113

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 17, 2023

By Jim Bildner In 2012, more than a decade ago, in response to a growing wave of impact investing obsession, Kevin Starr warned that impact investing was doomed to fail: “Few solutions that meet the fundamental needs of the poor will get you your money back,” he observed, and “overcoming market failure requires subsidy.”

Marketing 107

Marketing Marketing Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management 107

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

These new laws channeled philanthropic assets into municipal bonds and community development loan funds, which stabilized local municipalities. Notes Resonance: A Framework for Philanthropic Transformation (Oakland, CA: Justice Funders and The Resonance Collaborative).

Public and Social Policy 104

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Taxation 104

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Massive investments in climate solutions such as carbon markets, CO2 sequestration, and energy alternatives had no material effect on slowing global warming. Like Nussbaum’s framework for healthy context, researchers have developed comprehensive approaches applicable to individuals. Real progress seems elusive.

Philanthropy 125

Philanthropy Homelessness Psychology Health 125

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The primary employee-ownership technical assistance providers in the state—the Center for Community Wealth Building , Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center , and Rocky Mountain Farmers Union Cooperative Development Center —now have direct support from OEDIT to advance conversions.

Public and Social Policy 94

Public and Social Policy Finance Governance Culture 94

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

15 Today’s economy places a premium on being able to access social networks to jump from job to job, which reinforces existing privilege, because the very definition of social networks in the job market depends on having connections in high places. Robert Frank, “Soaring markets helped the richest 1% gain $6.5

Public and Social Policy 72

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 72

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

How do we think about and tell a story where individual organizations and some of the leaders I write about are talking increasingly over the 1970s and the 1980s about markets, about market-oriented policies, about celebrating the private sector? It’s a collaborative facilitation and consulting firm. CD : It is, and it isn’t.

Public and Social Policy 91

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance Public and Nonprofit Management 91

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. 00:03:54] A few notes. First, we’re very excited to take your questions. Thanks, Mindy.

Public and Social Policy 86

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Food Nonprofit governance and management 86

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 26, 2023

12 Today’s schools redirect to cities and college towns what used to be known as “suburban research parks” 13 and now are termed “innovation districts,” in which academic research and corporate sponsors bring together real estate development, various forms of retail, and relatively cheap knowledge labor.

Education 82

Education Education Universities Public and Nonprofit Management 82

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. Rachel: Great.

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