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Community Development Food Foundations 
NonProfit Quarterly
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Image credit: Steve Dubb Food is the cover story. Malik Kenyatta Yakini, Up & Coming Food Co-op C onference panel September 15, 2023 There is a wave of food co-ops opening in majority-Black communities, as NPQ has covered. But organizing a food co-op is not easy. The real story is Black self-determination.
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NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
In the series, urban and rural grassroots leaders from across the United States share how their communities are developing and implementing strategies—grounded in local places, cultures, and histories—to shift power and achieve systemic change. Over the years, I’ve seen corporate food giants pack up and leave our neighborhoods.
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A New Look At Running Grants & Programs: Why Use A System When You Have Excel?
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NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Image Credit: Oladimeji Odunsi on unsplash.com How do you support development across the food system in a way that builds community ownership and power for Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities? This is a question that a group of food system activists of color have come together to address.
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NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
And, as in so many other cities, Louisville’s predominantly Black neighborhoods are subject to food apartheid. Downtown grocery stores have recently disappeared, exacerbating food apartheid: between 2016 and 2018, five grocery stores in Louisville’s urban core closed. Some of these projects were top-down in conception and execution.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
APRIL 3, 2025
Just as Hemstreets community built Opportunity Threads, Reverend Dr. Pastor Heber Brown organized within his community of Black parishioners in Baltimore to help form the Black Church Food Security Network. Like Hemstreet, Pastor Brown just got started, and worked to build community. million children.
NonProfit Leadership Alliance
MAY 31, 2024
Effective leadership is crucial for these organizations to thrive and continue to serve their communities.
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 8, 2025
Today, our communities face multiple challengesranging from accelerating climate change to growing income inequality, from refugee crises to housing crises, and from basic food access to self-serving financial systems. Instead, public banks partner with local banks to expand community-driven impacts.
Ann Green
APRIL 7, 2015
Create community. Develop a community. Some organizations participating in Give Local America, like Infinite Hands Initiative and the East Hampton Food Pantry , use flyers and other print materials. People want to support you. You just have to be, as Gail Perry says, “ cheerfully aggressive ” about asking. Go old school.
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Candid
APRIL 22, 2025
Volunteers comprise one-third of the nonprofit workforce ; voluntary human capital plays a critical role in delivering essential local services such as food security, disaster response, and youth mentorship. Advocate: Emphasize the vital role of volunteering in driving broader societal change and community development.
NonProfit Quarterly
OCTOBER 4, 2023
To transform our economy, we need to network, learn, ideate, iterate, and resource the work together as nonprofits, for-profits, community leaders and members, philanthropic institutions, governments, donors, and investors. The Seattle Foundation has been a leader in a national movement to build Black funds.
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. In his eyes, “We can’t pilot this stuff anymore.
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NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 25, 2023
A salient example is of organizations that are focused on community development but invest in mass incarceration. To date, discussion on mission-aligned investing has largely focused on wealthy foundations and endowed institutions, but over half of all charitable organizations have total assets of less than $1 million.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
MAY 17, 2023
Most practitioners working in community development have accepted this as the reality of impact investing: The harder you drive for social impact in disadvantaged communities, the farther away you get from unbuffered full market return.
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Anedot
APRIL 8, 2025
Organization Overview With over 40 years of service, West Marin Community Services (WMCS) provides essential assistance such as food distribution, emergency financial aid, referrals to social services, and equity-driven community engagement to residents in West Marin. Thrift Store: Generating funds for community programs.
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
For years, I have directed IFF , a community development financial institution that specializes in nonprofit facilities lending. A Hierarchy of Nonprofit Facilities’ Needs After 30 years in community development, I have come to think of nonprofit facilities as existing on a continuum of need.
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NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 8, 2025
This reliance on external drivers did not sit comfortably with Neugebauer, whose background is in community development and social innovation. Bringing in money and resources to organizations is a really important thing to do, but we miss this opportunity to build a foundation of civic and community engagement, she told NPQ.
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NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 1, 2023
Honoring the memory of our ancestors, BlacSpace is cooking up a savory dish with the intention of feeding communities for generations. Our food is not scarcity-based stone soup but rather a rich, sumptuous, and nourishing gumbo for transforming struggle into an open, connected, and creative way of being—into livity.
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NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
When schools and daycares shuttered, when food and other supply chains broke, who delivered baby supplies to parents juggling virtual work and young children? Who brought food to housebound elders? The nonprofit sector, along with community-based mutual aid networks , stepped up to meet immediate needs.
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Getting Attention
AUGUST 3, 2012
3) Communications Coordinator , The Immunization Partnership (Houston, TX). Food & Water Watch (Washington, D.C.). 6) Manager, Community Development , Arthritis Foundation (Philadelphia, PA). 7) Marketing and Sales Intern and Media and Communications Intern. Please Touch Museum (Philadelphia, PA).
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 a massive charitable response, vast networks of locally supported food pantries, coat drives, homeless shelters, community clinics, and free schools have been launched and sustained.
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 11, 2023
For example, we followed a team of founders who were committed to supporting “cottage” food entrepreneurs—mostly women of color who had excellent cooking skills but lacked business skills and ready access to fresh ingredients and licensed kitchens. A How-to Guide for Scaling Deep.
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NonProfit Quarterly
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
Mission-Driven Land Acquisition In communities all over the country, commercial corridors are lined with small mom-and-pop establishments that provide communities with food and services but also hire locally and act as ambassadors for culture. We encountered five challenges along the way: Patchwork fundraising.
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Getting Attention
MARCH 22, 2012
4) Communications Coordinator , EMILY’S List (Washington, D.C.). 5) Communications Director , Progress Michigan (Lansing, MI). 6) Communications Manager , PENCIL (New York, NY). 7) Communications Manager , Starlight Children’s Foundation (Los Angeles, CA). 13) Event Coordinator and Program Manager.
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NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
Image credit: “ Nature, food, landscape, travel ” on istock.com Creating and preserving quality affordable housing is notoriously difficult, with the number of available units declining each year as landlords raise rents ever higher. But this increases the cost of servicing the resultant larger loans.
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NonProfit Quarterly
DECEMBER 14, 2023
A cohort of 20 lending institutions from across the country and varying widely in size and scope came together for the pilot launch in February 2023, hosted by Beneficial State Foundation. Your company that creates healthy pre-prepared food has achieved regional recognition and won prestigious awards.
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MNA Association
OCTOBER 16, 2024
Montana’s nonprofit sector strengthens the foundation of our communities, making them stronger, healthier, and more vibrant. In towns like Big Sandy, nonprofits like our health centers, food pantries, and Rotary clubs are a big part of the fabric of our communities. What do you see as the value of nonprofits in Montana?
NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 5, 2023
For instance, the Anchorage Community Land Trust , which began in 2003 and is the oldest example reviewed in the report, acquired land in a BIPOC neighborhood that had a 25.1 Seeded with an initial $5 million grant from a local foundation, the land trust acquired nine parcels between 2005 and 2011. percent poverty rate (as of 2001).
NonProfit Quarterly
AUGUST 2, 2023
Image Credit: Daniel Xavier on pexels This is the fourth article in NPQ ’s series titled Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. How does a small Latinx community organize itself to support homegrown businesses? Looking to expand and develop a permanent storefront, they participated in the food business course.
Top Nonprofits
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Through CSR initiatives, companies aim to give back to society by addressing various issues such as sustainability, community development, employee welfare, ethical business practices, and philanthropic involvement. by donating food, funds, and resources to local food banks.
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NonProfit Quarterly
JUNE 27, 2023
Neighborhood Initiativ e, a community-led housing and land trust in Boston. And we’ll also hear from Amaha Selassie of Gem City , a food cooperative in Dayton, Ohio. 00:01:38] We’ll be hearing from Minnie McMahon of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, a community-led Housing and land trust in Boston.
NonProfit Quarterly
JUNE 4, 2025
We hear a lot about justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion from foundations. More broadly, the report authors note, Disconnection from land, Native food systems, birthing practices, and cultural practices contribute to physical health harm as well. Credit: Zoe Urness (Tlingit Alaskan Native and Cherokee). The effects are manifold.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
OCTOBER 30, 2024
Enter community development financial institutions (CDFIs). This lack of access spiraled into a crisis, as the pandemic shined a glaring light on the structural barriers facing rural communities, including the lack of broadband access and how it impeded rural communities’ shift to online financial transactions and lending.
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 4, 2024
“In cities like Richmond, California, and Boston, Massachusetts, which had experienced ‘food apartheid,’ the need for locally grown, healthy food supported the rise of urban farms that employed returning citizens. But how would they know what the community needs?” Mom says that democratic loan funds used to be rare.”
Bloomerang
JULY 31, 2021
There is a big difference between a federal application and then a private corporate foundation application. And if you’re not familiar with those, you can take a look at that within your community. This is through the Kellogg Foundation. And it’s also just centrally located in the community.
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Last month, the Opportunity Finance Network (OFN), the nation’s leading community development financial institution (CDFI) trade association, held its first in-person national conference in three years in New York City. In other words, is the phrase a call for government—and corporate donors and foundations—to invest in CDFIs?
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
In vibrant and thriving communities, people have the power and resources to realize their vision of health and well-being. Residents, regardless of zip code or how much money they have, can breathe clean air, eat healthy and culturally appropriate food, and have a safe, affordable place to call home.
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NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 24, 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. One way is by discouraging philanthropic investment.
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NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 24, 2023
It was a smaller autonomous school called the School of Social Justice and Community Development. Akuno emphasized that the central foundation of Cooperation Jackson’s work is not the worker cooperatives it helps develop per se, but rather the community land trust, because the latter ensures Cooperation Jackson’s ownership of land.
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NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
In stark contrast to the venture capital approach, collective action has been foundation for the success of Black people and Black-owned businesses. In stark contrast to the venture capital approach, collective action has been foundational for the success of Black people and Black-owned businesses.
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NonProfit Quarterly
AUGUST 8, 2023
But if we willfully exclude ourselves from Congressional processes, we leave money and resources on the table that will provide vital resources to our communities. We should not be naive about the resources of the government, which, like foundation endowments, are fueled by wealth that comes from our communities in the first place.
NonProfit Quarterly
JULY 26, 2023
4 Once on Prospect, I was awash in a sea of excitement and activity as over 150 residents, labor activists, students, and onlookers buzzed about, handing out food and water, playing with young children, stewarding informational tables, dancing to the music, and finishing a massive art project that immediately drew my attention.
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NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
A Model Rooted in Partnerships To pursue this vision, UPILF has developed many partnerships like the one that we now have with the African American Christian Clergy Coalition (AACCC) in Arizona, where Pastor Aubrey Barnwell of First New Life Church (FNL) in Phoenix, partnered with UPILF to address financial needs among his church members.
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NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 30, 2025
Virtually everyone I know is finding ways to supportand celebrate the successes ofthe vital struggles being led by federal workers , nonprofit workers , and community development financial institutions. Support community production employing both digital fabrication technologies and regenerative agriculture-based materials and energy.
NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 3, 2025
Image credit: AmnajKhetsamtip on iStock Community development financial institutions (CDFIs) have emerged as pivotal players in bridging financial gaps in underserved communities. They often operate as nonprofit loan funds, credit unions, or community-focused banks.
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