NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 15, 2025

generate social or environmental returnor doing wellthat is: make a financial return. There are indeed many investments where social or environmental goals dont harm earnings (and, arguably, even improve earnings). As one firm states , investors do not have to choose between doing goodi.e.

Public and Social Policy 106

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Public Policy 106

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Politicians are influenced by money as much as or, frankly, often much more than votes, and public policy is the product of calculating trade-offs between the two. Policy changes without accompanying operational support and infrastructure are like trees without roots.

Public and Social Policy 131

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

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 17, 2024

Despite their best intentions, minority deposit institutions (MDIs) and community development financial institutions (CDFIs), like other small banks, simply lack the capital base to close the racial gap. The Push for Public Banks Today, more public banks are being launched and planned.

Public and Social Policy 135

Public and Social Policy Finance Governance Disaster Relief 135

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

Additionally, Duranti-Martinez points out, “Community ownership also means that the people most impacted by racial, economic, and environmental injustice have meaningful decision-making power over development” (7). Paul, tells Duranti-Martinez, for public policy to go beyond funding community ownership “experiments.”

Public and Nonprofit Management 106

Public and Nonprofit Management Participation and motivation Nonprofit governance and management Poverty 106

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. Worker-owned co-ops and benefit corporations are additional public policy frameworks for a just economy. The drug epidemic has devastated our most poverty-stricken communities.

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 132

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Typically, a one-megawatt solar array can power at least 400 homes for a year at a cost of about $4 million—making this cost-prohibitive to most community developers. What are some practical strategies for building local capacity and breaking a colonial mindset around community energy production?

Energy 132

Energy Environmental Community Development Public Policy 132

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 4, 2025

Legal justice, environmental justice, racial and social justice. The report also highlights some of the economic impacts: Native peoples, communities, and enterprises are excluded from philanthropy, investments, capital, and banking, and other economic systems. Credit: Zoe Urness (Tlingit Alaskan Native and Cherokee).

Public and Social Policy 114

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