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 124

Community Development Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management Leadership 124

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

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 107

Food Construction Public and Social Policy Governance 107

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 98

Community Development Finance Energy Nonprofit governance and management 98

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 107

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Community Development 107

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 104

Philanthropy Culture Agriculture Community Development 104

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 104

Culture Foundations Education Education 104

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 125

Philanthropy Homelessness Psychology Health 125

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 130

Energy Environmental Finance Governance 130

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2024

As a Puerto Rico-based nonprofit that leverages community-based abandonment inventories, community–municipal partnerships, a rehabilitation and construction team, and in-house legal expertise to convert abandoned buildings and lots into opportunities for community-led development, the lack of access to financing nearly destroyed the organization.

Finance 117

Finance Non-Profits Collaborations Public and Nonprofit Management 117

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 102

Agriculture Public and Social Policy Governance Construction 102

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 7, 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 114

Poverty Community Development Finance Construction 114

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 21, 2023

By Vurayayi Pugeni , Caroline Pugeni & Dan Maxson International community development has changed significantly over its history, shifting from primarily responding to disaster events to improving communities using a sectoral approach to issues like health, agriculture, and water and sanitation.

Culture 52

Culture Agriculture Values Health 52

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 94

Culture Cultural Diversity Community Development Public and Nonprofit Management 94

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 Governance Food 141

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2023

In response, our two groups—the Latino Support Network , a local community development corporation, and Grassroots Finance Action , a consortium of savings group experts—decided to test whether, with a small financial investment, the reach of these savings circles could be extended to immigrants in Lynn more broadly.

Finance 107

Finance Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management Construction 107

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 131

Governance Culture Construction Community Development 131

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2024

Nowhere is this more evident than in the construction and decimation of the social safety net. The myth of American meritocracy is not merely an occasional story; it is upheld daily by social systems, structures, and cultural narratives about who works hard and who is lazy. These racist stories then shape our policies for years and years.

Public and Social Policy 115

Public and Social Policy Poverty Law Children 115

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 107

Energy Children Insurance Construction 107

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 109

Finance Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Education 109

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 127

Food Medical Community Development Finance 127

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 26, 2023

11 Under the cover of “educational purposes,” research that has the potential to generate millions in patent revenues—let alone the revenues from construction or health services—benefits from the reduced overhead of sitting on property-tax-exempt campus land. The development buzzards currently circling include Wexford.)

Education 96

Education Education Universities Public and Nonprofit Management 96

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

And then, over the course of the next couple of years, I was able to move out of the policy creation side into policy implementation and worked on creating a new small autonomous school called the School of Social Justice and Community Development. From New Orleans, I learned how to go about constructing a community land trust.

Public and Social Policy 138

Public and Social Policy Education Education Recruitment 138

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

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 102

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