NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

For years, I have directed IFF , a community development financial institution that specializes in nonprofit facilities lending. A Hierarchy of Nonprofit Facilities’ Needs After 30 years in community development, I have come to think of nonprofit facilities as existing on a continuum of need.

Values 106

Values Community Development Psychology Healthcare 106

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Increasingly, people of color are becoming leaders of national community development organizations. Michael Bochnovic and Courtney Knox, Championing Leaders of Color in Housing Equity and Community Development , Washington, DC: Center for Community Progress, April 2022. .

Leadership 93

Leadership Community Development Associations Nonprofits 93

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 14, 2023

At the same time, many community development nonprofits face challenges in securing the capital needed to carry out their core missions and, importantly, to test new ideas and strategies. From inception, the pool was centered on community development financing activities and emphasized racial, gender, and economic equity.

Community Development 83

Community Development Finance Energy Nonprofit governance and management 83

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 26, 2023

Image Credit: Bruno Guerrero on unsplash.com This is the third article in NPQ ’s series titled Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. Among the coalition participants is the organization I work for, the Latino Economic Development Corporation.

Construction 96

Construction Community Development Governance Environmental 96

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The result of their work is more places for people to gather and experience nature, increased social cohesion, restored civic trust, and perhaps most importantly, community development that benefits all residents. In Akron, more than 20 public, nonprofit, and community groups came together to form the Civic Commons team.

Public and Social Policy 139

Public and Social Policy Construction Community Development Governance 139

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Image credit: Matthew Moloney on unsplash.com This is the third article in NPQ ’s series titled Building Power, Fighting Displacement: Stories from Asian Pacific America, coproduced with the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development ( National CAPACD ). What does gentrification look like?

Community Development 111

Community Development Leadership Food Governance 111

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 3, 2024

In Washington, DC, the city’s Department of Housing and Community Development reports that 18,300 units of affordable housing of this kind became unaffordable between 2006 and 2017. This is no small matter. This loss of affordability is related to other challenges that DC renters and the city have been facing.

Values 121

Values Public and Nonprofit Management Construction Finance 121

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 17, 2023

Coproduced by Partners for Rural Transformation, a coalition of six regional community development financial institutions, and NPQ , the authors highlight efforts to address multigenerational poverty in Appalachia, the rural West, Indian Country, South Texas, and the Mississippi Delta.

Poverty 121

Poverty Finance Community Development Philanthropy 121

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 24, 2023

Coproduced by Partners for Rural Transformation, a coalition of six regional community development financial institutions, and NPQ , authors highlight efforts to address multi-generational poverty in Appalachia, the rural West, Indian Country, South Texas, and the Mississippi Delta.

Poverty 101

Poverty Agriculture Culture Community Development 101

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Adiza is passionate about policy and advocacy, housing affordability, community development, and creating equitable, inclusive, and cost-effective solutions to long-standing societal problems. What are you reading right now? Currently, I am reading The Injustice of Place. What do you love most about Tennessee Nonprofit Network?

Public Policy 77

Public Policy Public and Social Policy Collaborations Community Development 77

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 21, 2022

At a recent professional dinner, I struck up a fascinating conversation with a woman who has spent her legal career working in civil rights, housing, and community development. I once heard a CDFI leader remark that when the borrowers we need in the community don’t exist, we as CDFIs need to go out there and create them.

Finance 99

Finance Community Development Non-Profits Nonprofit governance and management 99

Amy Eisenstein

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Can I get one or two about community development or Environmental conservation? Can you help me get a donor. Running an organization organization without one is not a walk in the park. Will really appreciate it. Best regards Jennipher

Environmental 52

Environmental Community Development 52

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 25, 2021

Join major giving expert and ACFRE, Amy Eisenstein, as she delves into the trending topics your organization needs to tune into this year including: Discovering major donors within your donor community. Developing donor relationships in the age of social-distancing. Learning how to ask for gifts remotely and in-person.

Community Development 131

Community Development Fundraising Fundraising Nonprofits 131

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 29, 2023

What if the tens of thousands of churches currently projected to close in the next few years put their assets into trusts deeply aligned with community development, versus stranding those assets and real estate as they shutter?

Nonprofit governance and management 98

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Community Development 98

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

While these objectives differ, there is a clear overlap of priorities and opportunities to advance shared equitable community development goals. Different yet complementary objectives : Land banks focus on addressing large inventories of vacant and abandoned properties, while CLTs focus on creating and preserving affordability.

Public and Social Policy 106

Public and Social Policy Governance Community Development Agriculture 106

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Connie Binkowitz, director of development and external policy at CTC, described how, in 2020, the organization received a grant from the Memphis Division of Housing and Community Development (DHCD). This grant came out of a program supported by federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) dollars.

Governance 77

Governance Community Development Collaborations Environmental 77

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In the series, urban and rural grassroots leaders from across the United States share how their communities are developing and implementing strategies—grounded in local places, cultures, and histories—to shift power and achieve systemic change.

Food 92

Food Public and Nonprofit Management Medical Community Development 92

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Temple ) and a community development financial institution ( Communities Unlimited ) are teaming to develop bottom-up structural solutions to building rural capacity. When we talk about economic development in East Texas, we often like to start with a the figure below, which comes from a T.L.L.

Entrepreneurship 110

Entrepreneurship Philanthropy Foundations Public and Social Policy 110

Candid

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Examples of PRIs include investments in community development financial institutions, which make loans to small businesses owned by members of economically disadvantaged groups in underinvested communities. The intent of a PRI is not financial gain but to provide loans where they might not be otherwise accessible.

Public and Nonprofit Management 98

Public and Nonprofit Management Environmental Foundations Philanthropy 98

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 8, 2017

International development: 6.2%. Community development: 5.2%. Community development: 5.1%. International development: 4.2%. International development: 4.9%. Community development: 4.8%. Women and girls: 8.5%. Health and safety: 8%. Education: 7.4%. Arts and culture: 6.8%.

Public Policy 92

Public Policy Volunteerism Volunteerism Children 92

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 2, 2023

Image Credit: Daniel Xavier on pexels This is the fourth article in NPQ ’s series titled Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. How does a small Latinx community organize itself to support homegrown businesses? Developing Community Leadership Entrepreneurs play a critical role as community builders.

Participation and motivation 52

Participation and motivation Nonprofit governance and management Community Development Leadership 52

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The journey since then has been an adventure, offering important lessons for us that I believe are valuable for the community development field. Our project was catalyzed by Genesis LA, a Community Development Financial Institution that was willing to bet on our idea. Traditional views of “risk.”

Culture 105

Culture Community Development Collaborations Activism 105

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 1, 2023

million in renovations to support a community-developed plan to reopen this legacy site as a collectively owned community asset. BAMBD CDC is an arts-based organization invested in community development writ large. These spaces are now closed, and gentrification is encroaching upon the buildings that housed them.

Culture 105

Culture Retail Community Development Collaborations 105

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 107

Food Finance Community Development Culture 107

Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

The animating principle of Kresge’s Arts & Culture Program is equitable Creative Placemaking, which elevates arts, culture, and community-engaged design as central elements of community development and planning. Areas served: US. Knight Foundation. Areas served: Tennessee (*specific counties only – listed on website).

Culture 106

Culture Foundations Education Education 106

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JANUARY 13, 2023

I served as the Program Director for community development and microenterprise development at MIFA. For seven years, I served as the Senior Program Officer for a financial intermediary providing grant making, technical assistance, and training for community development corporations, and grassroots organizations.

Nonprofit governance and management 90

Nonprofit governance and management Leadership Community Development Organizational Change 90

Selfish Giving

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

ThrdPlace is a social platform for local action that brings consumers together with for-profits and non-profits to change the way community development projects get done. . Dawn Wilcox is the Managing Director of Social Impact at Allison+Partners with nearly two decades of experience helping brands make our world a better place. .

Non-Profits 224

Non-Profits Marketing Marketing Community Development 224

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 12, 2023

Image Credit: Abe Camacho on unsplash.com This article introduces a new NPQ series, Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities.

Culture 97

Culture Construction Community Development Education 97

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

Law 98

Law Cultural Diversity Community Development Children 98

Candid

MAY 2, 2023

They are “anchor” institutions that also serve as economic engines for Black and low-income communities. For that reason, any foundation or donor focused on educational attainment, neighborhood and community development, and wealth building in these communities should leverage their work by partnering with an HBCU.

Universities 98

Universities Education Education Philanthropy 98

Candid

JANUARY 21, 2022

Treasury-certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) and serves as a vital capital provider in low-income communities across California. New York Life has announced investments totaling $50 million in long-term capital in Century Housing Corporation for?the Century is a U.S.

Civil Society 52

Civil Society Manufacturing Community Development Governance 52

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 21, 2023

The need to develop more childcare businesses is obvious, but how to build and sustain viable childcare businesses is not. the community development financial institution where I work, lends to families and businesses throughout the state of Maine. What can be done to address this gap? Coastal Enterprises, Inc.,

Curriculum and Teaching 90

Curriculum and Teaching Finance Children Recruitment 90

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 17, 2024

A Community Finance Solution While barriers to homeownership persist for households of color, these barriers are possible to overcome. Closing gaps in mortgage lending is critical to closing racial homeownership gaps.

Finance 119

Finance Production Insurance Values 119

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

In 2021, the TCE Board approved a $300 million social bond (to be paid back over 30 years) to invest in the infrastructure for power building over a three-year period —and then turned over its design to California’s leading movement organizers.

Philanthropy 133

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Health 133

Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

International development and relief – 6%. Community development – 3%. Arts, cultural preservation, and humanities – 6%. Education and literacy – 5%. Women and girls – 4%. Human and civil rights / racial justice – 3%. Disability rights – 2%. Corporate accountability – 0%.

Public and Social Policy 145

Public and Social Policy Public Policy Homelessness Charitable Organizations 145

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2023

Artists are essential to any vision that calls the future into question.

Philanthropy 91

Philanthropy Culture Agriculture Community Development 91

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 12, 2023

Students also engaged in community asset mapping, an approach to community development that focuses on existing resources and strengths. The course team hopes that students will be able to advocate in response to the environmental challenges they and their communities may face.

Environmental 114

Environmental Education Education Community Development 114