Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Educational challenges faced by inner-city communities in the U.S. There are many challenges that inner-city communities in the United States face when it comes to education. Provide education and training programs that are tailored to the needs of underserved communities.

Leadership 107

Leadership Poverty Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity 107

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 105

Food Finance Community Development Culture 105

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 13, 2023

They provide social services, healthcare screening, workforce development, and education.” Faith institutions, he noted, in many communities are often “the only game in town. They provide social services, healthcare screening, workforce development, and education. are often the only game in town.

Finance 85

Finance Homelessness Healthcare Foundations 85

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 10, 2023

The conference brings together hundreds of community activists, government officials, and bank community development officers. To assess risk, the newly formed Federal Housing Administration hired the University of Michigan’s Ernest Fisher and Prudential’s Frederick Babcock.

Finance 103

Finance Law Governance Entrepreneurship 103

Ann Green

APRIL 7, 2015

Create community. Develop a community. Prior to Kimbia, Lori spent six years at The San Diego Foundation where she served as Director of Nonprofit Programs, developing education resources and tools for more than 250 local nonprofits. in Finance from Georgetown University. People want to support you.

Universities 73

Universities Finance Community Development Foundations 73

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 11, 2023

Anna Kim at McGill University and I pursued this question through in-depth fieldwork in two Detroit-based business incubators, which sought to revitalize Detroit through entrepreneurship but employed contrasting approaches. Neighborhood book clubs were repurposed as platforms with which to educate pet owners.

Entrepreneurship 116

Entrepreneurship Collaborations Finance Food 116

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Video is an opportunity for NGOs to gain a foothold in the media universe. 144 donors whose top 5 causes are animals and wildlife (19%), children and youth (15%), environment (12%), education (9%), and community development (8%). Video: The rising consumption of online video (Instagram and Facebook stories, Snapchat, etc.)

Disaster Relief 77

Disaster Relief Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management Social Enterprise 77

The Agitator

MARCH 25, 2013

Children and Family Justice Center at Northwestern University – Chicago, Illinois ($750,000) protects the rights and well-being of young people in the juvenile justice system and advocates for fairer laws and policies. Housing Partnership Network – Boston, Massachusetts ($1.5

Foundations 79

Foundations Nonprofits Law Energy 79

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2023

Image credit: Chris Briggs on unsplash.com Dr. Akilah Watkins, who previously led the Center for Community Progress and has been a leader in the CEO Circle, a group of community development leaders of color, became president and CEO of Independent Sector in January 2023. I don’t want that just to stay in community development.

Civil Society 86

Civil Society Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Social Policy Leadership 86

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 25, 2023

A salient example is of organizations that are focused on community development but invest in mass incarceration. For example, when GirlVentures , an outdoor girl and gender non-conforming education adventure program, moved to Oakland, CA, they looked for a local bank with social responsibility as part of its mission.

Public and Social Policy 102

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Non-Profits 102

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 24, 2023

Organized by the Labor Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Wellspring Cooperative , a worker co-op network based in nearby Springfield, the conference set to develop deeper ties between unions and worker co-ops—and to advance organizing for a solidarity economy. I am an educator. We had to educate them.

Education 136

Education Education Governance Food 136

Care2

APRIL 22, 2013

and serves as the Blogger-In-Chief for Care2''s top-ranked nonprofit communications blog, Frogloop. She is a graduate of Valparaiso University where she focused on English & New Media Journalism, though her informal education is – thankfully – a varied and on-going, life-long journey.

Non-Profits 70

Non-Profits Public and Nonprofit Management Recruitment Technology 70

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

Historically, Pruitt noted that education and religion were the most common categories, with education receiving by far the largest share of DAF dollars. If you want to be a future [university development] leader, you better be able to close big gifts. As Birkholz put it, “We have built a model of focusing on the top.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 84

Nonprofit Administration and Development Universities Philanthropy Education 84

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 26, 2023

I found myself in the middle of a David and Goliath struggle between the citizens of the town and its biggest economic powerhouse: Yale University. 2 While immersed in organizing, this powerful coalition of residents, university wage-workers, city alders, and students were also reading. 1 That city was New Haven, Connecticut.

Education 84

Education Education Universities Public and Nonprofit Management 84

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. In many ways, I imagine a nonprofit sector committed to economic justice looking like a sector where the suggestions we made as we braced for the brunt of COVID are universal norms.

Public and Social Policy 117

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 117

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 12, 2023

But to build cooperative intelligence, cooperative education needs to start at a much earlier age. Such, at least, is the thesis of work I’ve been involved in to create a cooperative education curriculum at the high school level in the Bronx. In Dare the School Build a New Social Order? ,

Curriculum and Teaching 98

Curriculum and Teaching Education Education Public and Nonprofit Management 98

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Black women who volunteered for the Black Panther Party—like Vanetta Molson-Turner , a registered nurse who contributed her time and expertise to the Black Panther Party’s Community Survival Programs —pooled their resources to serve their people in response to underinvestment and discrimination.

Philanthropy 113

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Healthcare Universities 113

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2024

Black Americans especially have faced pervasive discrimination in education, the workforce, and the ability to build wealth through property ownership. In the words of President John Kennedy, welfare payments should be directed “toward prevention and rehabilitation.” That’s not what happened, of course. President George W.

Public and Social Policy 97

Public and Social Policy Poverty Law Children 97

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Courtney Berner, who directs the Center of Cooperatives at the University of Wisconsin, notes that nationally between 2016 and 2019, 47 percent of all new cooperatives were worker cooperatives, a stunning figure given that only 1 percent of cooperatives in the United States formed before 2010 were worker cooperatives.

Finance 88

Finance Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Education 88

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.

Food 113

Food Agriculture Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 113

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

And Northeastern University has collected this incredible collection…they had all these organizational records from big ones to small ones that included board minutes, correspondence, grant minutes, budgets over such a long period of time. CS : So why did you choose Boston as a case study? CD : A couple of reasons. I lived in the city.

Public and Social Policy 92

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance Public and Nonprofit Management 92

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

Efforts to organize workers into unions within the sector have been on the rise—including among universities, museums, and community advocacy groups. 46 Education in community economics is also key. 48 In a thriving community, this civic infrastructure acts as a kind of “shadow government.”

Public and Social Policy 73

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 73

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

The vehicle for the development of nonprofit infrastructure was government grants, beginning with President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty, which “expanded individual benefits related to health, education, and welfare and doubled down on the idea of working with nonprofit organizations.” Ibid, 247.

Public and Social Policy 109

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Governance 109

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2023

Listen to the Cities@Tufts Podcast (or on the app of your choice): “The Imaginal Cells of the Solidarity Economy: Community Ownership” Transcript [The timestamps in the transcript correspond with the audio version of this lecture.] So, well-being requires security of housing, food, education, meaningful pursuits in one’s life.

Public and Social Policy 88

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Food Nonprofit governance and management 88

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

This council served as our primary avenue for discussion, education, and mobilization about advocacy efforts. Building leadership through education and training is always a worthwhile investment in advancing social change. In the policy realm, we need to build the infrastructure to educate and empower advocates and co-op storytellers.

Public Policy 73

Public Policy Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 73

The NonProfit Times

MAY 1, 2024

House lawmakers requesting earmarks from money allocated to the federal Department of Transportation and the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (T-HUD) 2025 Economic Development Initiative will be restricted to doing so only for state, local and tribal governments and public colleges and universities.

Education 59

Education Education Community Development Governance 59