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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Massive investments in climate solutions such as carbon markets, CO2 sequestration, and energy alternatives had no material effect on slowing global warming. Climate change as an undesirable side-effect of the fantastic innovation of using fossil fuels for energy is an example. The problem has gotten worse.”

Philanthropy 127

Philanthropy Homelessness Psychology Health 127

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 18, 2023

For example, Brooklyn-based nonprofit UPROSE is helping to bring local residents sustainable clean energy and is creating equitable frameworks for wind energy development in the area. The people most impacted by the climate crisis generate some of the most innovative and transformative solutions, born out of their lived reality.

Philanthropy 91

Philanthropy Poverty Governance Environmental 91

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The resources involved were modest ($240,000 total) but the ambition was large—namely, to assist Native nations to “regain control of their land and natural resources, revitalize traditional stewardship practices, and build sustainable stewardship initiatives that contribute to tribal economic and community development opportunities.”

Nonprofit governance and management 135

Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Environmental Food 135

Getting Attention

AUGUST 3, 2012

3) Communications Coordinator , The Immunization Partnership (Houston, TX). 6) Manager, Community Development , Arthritis Foundation (Philadelphia, PA). 7) Marketing and Sales Intern and Media and Communications Intern. California Center for Sustainable Energy (San Diego, CA). Website Manager. or Chicago, IL).

Public and Nonprofit Management 61

Public and Nonprofit Management Food Energy Associations 61

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Mission: To help eradicate extreme poverty through community development projects in urban sanitation, water filtration, health, alternative energy, and economic empowerment. Mission: To promote the right to education and to preserve the environment and cultural heritage of Brazil. Grassroots Pakistan ● grassrootspakistan.ngo.

Non-Profits 58

Non-Profits Poverty Children Education 58

The Agitator

MARCH 25, 2013

million) enables peer learning and collaboration among more than 100 affordable housing and community development leaders. International Rivers – Berkeley, California ($750,000) opposes destructive dams in critical conservation regions and offers feasible alternatives to meet energy and water needs.

Foundations 79

Foundations Nonprofits Law Energy 79

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Image credit: Drew Beamer on Unsplash For community development financial institutions (CDFIs), these are extraordinary times. Special attention was placed on the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund , a $27 billion clean-energy loan fund created by last year’s Inflation Reduction Act. [Today] CDFI assets total $457.9

Nonprofit Administration and Development 99

Nonprofit Administration and Development Finance Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 99

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 24, 2023

It was a smaller autonomous school called the School of Social Justice and Community Development. How do you balance the need to keep the energy up at the Staten Island facility, even as time and resources are employed to help organize union locals elsewhere? As he detailed, “I was in the process of organizing a school.”

Education 136

Education Education Governance Food 136

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The pilot also showed the importance of building staff capacity, which can look like hiring from and developing leadership in impacted communities. Water affordability intersects with energy and housing justice as water shutoffs have led to children being separated from their families and people becoming unhoused.

Public and Social Policy 124

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Collaborations Universities 124

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 27, 2023

Image Credit: Wilson Vitorino on pexels.com Rural America is primarily powered by electric cooperatives , which have tripled their renewable energy capacity over the last decade. Nigeria’s rural electrification expansion can teach the US the importance of meeting communities where they are as we move away from our dependence on fossil fuels.

Energy 97

Energy Children Insurance Construction 97

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Not only is this operation more energy efficient than municipal composting, but it also deepens relationships within the neighborhood. Photo courtesy of Daniel Tran. Since the beginning of their compost operations, R2G has donated over 4,000 pounds of compost to more than 50 elder Asian gardeners.

Nonprofit governance and management 101

Nonprofit governance and management Food Public and Nonprofit Management Environmental 101

Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And I always like to point this out because I think mental health is extremely important, especially as the fact that you’re dealing with populations who might be they’re doing one of the most vulnerable parts of their lives, or maybe there’s a cause that is really, really necessary to focus on and requires all your mental energy.

Nonprofit governance and management 115

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development Foundations 115

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

These new laws channeled philanthropic assets into municipal bonds and community development loan funds, which stabilized local municipalities. The passage of the THRIVE Act prioritized renewable, environmentally sound, ethically sourced energy production, from development to deployment.

Public and Social Policy 110

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Taxation 110

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. Notes Akilah Watkins-Butler, “Community Development Is Crucial in This Moment,” Shelterforce , March 27, 2020, shelterforce.org/2020/03/27/community-development-is-crucial-in-this-moment.

Public and Social Policy 117

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

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. My home city of Chicago also has a deep history of resistance, incredible community organizing, and creative energy—most recently reflected in the election this year of movement-backed mayor Brandon Johnson.

Finance 89

Finance Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Education 89

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 114

Food Medical Community Development Finance 114

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

Can this movement energy coalesce into a cohesive vision? 4 We see, too, movement energy in the organizing at Amazon, at the over 200 Starbucks branches that have unionized, in the new vigor behind the pursuit of worker cooperatives and community land trusts. Can this movement energy coalesce into a cohesive vision?

Public and Social Policy 76

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 76

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

Projects like Los Angeles for All point toward collective governance, working with the current system in order to transform it to center the needs of the community. Over the 20-year history of the USFWC, we have invested increasing energy in training leaders from the worker co-op ecosystem to be ambassadors outside of it.

Public Policy 75

Public Policy Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 75