NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

What becomes critical here is to capture these rental units for public use by implementing tenant and community right of first refusal options and prioritizing access for nonprofits (such as community development corporations ). Construction of new rental social housing will be more challenging.

Public and Social Policy 131

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 131

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Image credit: Photo by Raychan on Unsplash This article introduces a new NPQ 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 Is Comprehensive Community Development?

Values 127

Values Community Development Race and Ethnicity Culture 127

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In the 1960s, the construction of interstate highway I-76 and state Route 59 disconnected Summit Lake from the rest of Akron. 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.

Public and Social Policy 141

Public and Social Policy Construction Community Development Governance 141

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 3, 2024

For new construction, larger buildings can result in smaller per-unit costs. 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. units per building between 1987 and 1994 to 80.3

Values 137

Values Public and Nonprofit Management Construction Finance 137

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 31, 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.

Values 130

Values Poverty Nonprofit Administration and Development Finance 130

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 17, 2024

So as folks have talked about, there’s predevelopment financing, acquisition, rehab or construction, and then the long-term permanent financing. “We’re so concerned…with saving the property in the first place that we often forget we need long-term support for building management and sustainability.” The third piece is financing.

Finance 128

Finance Construction Management Education 128

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 2, 2025

The campaigns—particularly the second one around the Crenshaw Line—generated many wins, including an agreement with the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority in 2013 to work with the Los Angeles Black Worker Center to train and hire Black construction workers from the neighborhood to build the line.

Culture 72

Culture Law Energy Associations 72

Candid

MAY 14, 2025

First, were seeing technological and construction innovations that are helping bring down costs for renters, homeowners, and housing providers. Despite these challenges, mission-driven housing providers are eager to meet the moment by advancing housing preservation and production and supporting hard-working families.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 66

Nonprofit Administration and Development Construction Urban development Finance 66

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 23, 2025

Oscar Perry Abello: In my work as an economic justice correspondent at Next City, I had written all these stories about credit unions, community banking, and CDFIs [ Community Development Financial Institutions ]. For example, a construction loan is too risky for the credit union, so the loan fund handles that.

Insurance 95

Insurance Non-Profits Governance Finance 95

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

It can create secure, well-paying construction and repair jobs and ensure that housing is green, energy-efficient, and more resilient to climate disasters. Social housing campaigns look different in different communities.

Public and Social Policy 143

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development 143

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 119

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Community Development 119

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

We are under pressure to meet agreed-upon timelines for site preparation, store design, permitting, and construction. Construction is anticipated to start in the third quarter of 2023. In 2024, the Louisville Community Grocery should open its doors in Smoketown , a downtown neighborhood and the first of the city’s Black settlements.

Food 112

Food Construction Public and Social Policy Governance 112

Candid

MAY 8, 2025

From eastern Tennessee to Californias Central Valley, we at Save the Children have seen how community-led approaches deliver resultsfrom education to housing to community development. Here are some dos and donts for supporting community-led impact. positive change. Simplify applications, agreements, and reporting.

Civil Society 52

Civil Society Children Construction Collaborations 52

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 10, 2024

Image credit: Drew Katz Black Bostonian communities citywide have more than just something to say for themselves: their economies are building institutions that prioritize asset-based community development and are creating the foundations for a local solidarity economy.

Food 131

Food Community Development Medical Finance 131

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. All too often, development seems to be designed solely for a new crop of incoming residents. Meanwhile, the longtime residents who were the “early investors” are cut out.

Culture 98

Culture Construction Community Development Education 98

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 110

Culture Foundations Education Education 110

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2023

The community is incubating cooperative enterprises based on leveraging the untapped skills of residents, rooted in members’ art and creativity. Artists are essential to any vision that calls the future into question.

Philanthropy 111

Philanthropy Culture Agriculture Community Development 111

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

“We continued to fight against the site and citing environmental burdens while also looking forward to how we bring renewable energy to the community.” The first phase involved funding project construction—which Working Power is financing. Sunset Park Solar is looking at two phases of financing.

Energy 132

Energy Environmental Finance Governance 132

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 9, 2023

Image credit: Kenny Eliason on unsplash.com This is the fifth article in NPQ ’s series titled Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. Eviction is a common occurrence in San Francisco due to rising rents and frequent real estate ownership changes.

Culture 98

Culture Cultural Diversity Public and Nonprofit Management Community Development 98

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Construction, by contrast, took only two years. Maintaining community support between 2014 and 2022 was not easy. Yakini notes that co-op advocates operated “against a backdrop of a certain degree of community skepticism. This challenge is a good part of why securing funding takes so much time.

Food 134

Food Nonprofit governance and management Finance Governance 134

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 27, 2023

billion towards expanding, modernizing, and securing the rural electric grid though the Electric Infrastructure Loan Program , which gives insured loans and loan guarantees to electric cooperatives and other nonprofits for the construction of renewable-energy projects. Earlier this year, the USDA announced that it would put $2.7

Energy 112

Energy Children Construction Insurance 112

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. These themes of relationship building, seeking coalition partners, linking to Black community values, and creating structures of support show up throughout the series.

Finance 122

Finance Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Education 122

MNA Association

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Try to make grants available for nonprofit Research and Development into Compressed Agricultural Fiber and Cross-Laminated timber for carbon-sequestering construction materials.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofits 98

The NonProfit Times

MAY 3, 2024

Eliminating earmarks allowed under the program could jeopardize charitable programs related to early learning and childcare, youth sports and recreation, community health services, affordable housing, and other critical services affecting underserved and vulnerable populations including survivors of domestic violence, according to the letter.

Construction 64

Construction Education Education Nonprofits 64

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 4, 2023

Some of the measures taken include the construction of embankments to contain or control the flow of water, and the use of geobags, which are filled with soil and sand to form a barrier against waves and currents in erosion-prone areas.

Agriculture 106

Agriculture Public and Social Policy Governance Construction 106

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Image credit: Matt Briney on unsplash.com This is the second 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 ).

Community Development 128

Community Development Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management Leadership 128

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 6, 2023

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. That was part of the problem.

Community Development 135

Community Development Public and Social Policy Governance Production 135

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2023

That’s when we’re doing new construction. You still need to put together all the construction financing with a developer like we don’t ourselves develop as CLTs, typically, but we’ll partner with the developer so that all the constraints of low-cost housing, affordable housing development, are the same for a CLT.

Public and Social Policy 106

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Food Nonprofit governance and management 106

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The 21st-century ger initiative applied a transdisciplinary approach to understanding the context, bringing together community members, experts, and various organizations from the private and public sectors. The concept of community development has been around for decades, supported by extensive literature and numerous case studies.

Health 118

Health Public and Social Policy Medical Governance 118

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 8, 2025

Public bankscreated by governments and chartered to serve the public interestoffer a powerful model to advance racial equity, public accountability, and community self-determination. In New York, the public banking movement has taken root.

Finance 136

Finance Law Poverty Governance 136

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 4, 2025

Tara Evonne Trudell (Santee Sioux/Rarmuri/Xicana), a visual artist interviewed for the report, notes that Western justice feels like a colonial construct imposed upon Indigenous people. Among the Din (Navajo) people, a core concept is hozho, which roughly translates as peace, balance, beauty, and harmony (19). What does Native justice demand?

Public and Social Policy 114

Public and Social Policy Culture Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofit Administration and Development 114

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Over the past decade, both secular building interests and dozens of churches and religious organizations have planned, financed, and constructed affordable housing and community development projects across the United States and Canada.

Community Development 130

Community Development Finance Production Homelessness 130

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 12, 2025

Unfortunately, far too often, elitesour local oligarchs, if you willuse fancy tools of municipal finance like tax increment financing to expense development costs onto taxpayers, even as they profit. The research compiled by DPP and its allies was folded into community meetings and candidate forums for the 2021 municipal elections.

Public and Social Policy 83

Public and Social Policy Finance Community Development Homelessness 83

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 16, 2024

You said: “I don’t need to know historic preservation; I need to know how to hire architects and construction teams. I know how to impart vision, build a team, and build community. SD: At NPQ , we have long been interested in governance—how community groups make democratic decisions—and management, how you implement them.

Governance 135

Governance Culture Construction Community Development 135

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Assuming positive traits and emotions like joy, love, intimacy, and hope provide an opportunity to build constructive thoughts and ideas about the future. Like Nussbaum’s framework for healthy context, researchers have developed comprehensive approaches applicable to individuals.

Philanthropy 139

Philanthropy Homelessness Psychology Medical 139

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 131

Poverty Community Development Finance Philanthropy 131

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 24, 2023

It was a smaller autonomous school called the School of Social Justice and Community Development. Ultimately, this self-questioning convinced Akuno that changing ownership of the economy was critical to liberation; that there had to be a pivot in strategy toward cooperatives and toward the construction of a solidarity economy.

Education 141

Education Education Food Governance 141