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Impact Investing for the Missing Middle in Agri-Finance

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It directly limits future growth and also makes it harder for the cooperative to borrow sufficiently to finance its day-to-day activities or operating expenses. Is external financing available? In other words, 70 percent of the global needs for rural finance are currently unmet. But how and where? Affordable?

Finance 89
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Learning That Changes Lives: Local Leader Shares Journey to Nonprofit Success

NonProfit Leadership Center

Collaborative. After studying finance in college and then receiving her law degree from Florida State University, Erin practiced law for 13 years — first as in-house counsel for a multi-family housing company, then in private practice at a law firm, and finally as a prosecutor at the state attorney’s office. “I Empowering.

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Getting Federal Money to Communities: A Story from Puerto Rico

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Christian Ouellet on istock.com Financing challenges often stymie nonprofits. The lack of access to financing [meant that the grant] nearly destroyed the organization. Gallardo’s closest collaborators include a tight-knit group of other passionate directors of new nonprofits with systems change missions.

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Reshaping the Idea of Rural America: Stories from Our Communities

NonProfit Quarterly

This article is the second in the series Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. In America’s rural areas of deep poverty, over 60 percent of the residents are BIPOC. However, in America’s rural areas of deep poverty, over 60 percent of the residents are BIPOC. This disproportionality demands systemic solutions.

Poverty 102
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Being and Building Beloved Community: The Intersection of Culture and Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

The poverty rate is 52.4 Located at the convergence of downtown and historically Black South Memphis, in the neighborhood that Church built, Clayborn was the headquarters for the sanitation workers’ strike of 1968, the action King saw as the future of his multiracial movement to end US poverty.

Culture 108
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Shifting the Harmful Narratives and Practices of Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

This series— Ending Work Requirements — based on a report by the Maven Collaborative, the Center for Social Policy, and Ife Finch Floyd, will explore the truth behind work requirements. A job that pays less than childcare costs, imposes schedules on short notice, and doesn’t offer benefits cannot help people escape poverty.

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Methodist Unveils $181 Million Investment

The NonProfit Times

Strategic Operating Initiatives: In addition to the annual grants to partners, MHM has allocated nearly $28 million toward strategic initiatives that amplify its overall strategic goals and disrupt the cycle of intergenerational poverty.