NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

We asked ourselves, “What else can we do if indeed we fundamentally believe that positive health outcomes—positive life outcomes—result from good jobs, good education, safe housing, healthy, affordable foods, and safe, prosperous communities? One HEZ lead is a community health center with multiple sites.

Health 110

Health Race and Ethnicity Food Children 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. Black Lives Matter or Pride Month marketing campaigns might lead us to believe these movements are attracting all the funding they need, but they are not. If not, why not?

Public and Social Policy 109

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 109

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Image credit: Matthew Moloney on unsplash.com This is the third 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 ). What does gentrification look like?

Community Development 102

Community Development Leadership Food Governance 102

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 25, 2023

A salient example is of organizations that are focused on community development but invest in mass incarceration. Key IPS components may include scope and purpose, governance, investment asset classes, return and risk objectives, investment benchmarking, and risk management.

Public and Social Policy 94

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Non-Profits 94

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.

Participation and motivation 52

Participation and motivation Nonprofit governance and management Community Development Leadership 52

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. How are ROCs Created? But this increases the cost of servicing the resultant larger loans.

Manufacturing 101

Manufacturing Finance Nonprofit governance and management Law 101

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. Latinx and other immigrant community commercial corridors allow residents to access foods and products native to their country of origin and, therefore, help preserve their cultural identity.

Culture 91

Culture Construction Community Development Education 91

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 11, 2023

Regardless of their original vision, ACCEL founders—like many who seek venture capital financing—changed their ideas (or pivoted) so that their ventures could reach a national, if not global, market in three to five years, following a typical venture capital timeframe. A How-to Guide for Scaling Deep.

Entrepreneurship 109

Entrepreneurship Collaborations Finance Food 109

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

If investors were coming into a community to buy land, we thought, why couldn’t we assemble a new approach to take properties off the speculative market first? For many immigrants, entrepreneurialism is the sole way to make a decent living in the United States due to the structures designed to lock them out of the job market.

Culture 94

Culture Community Development Collaborations Activism 94

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

It was something that I knew existed, but I didn’t know how dependent I was on it until I got to college and started to pay my own food bills. Rather than waiting in a generalized sense for the market to “create jobs,” we had to create the means of taking care of our basic sustenance on our own. Probably not.

Public and Social Policy 130

Public and Social Policy Education Education Recruitment 130

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.

Health 100

Health Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Philanthropy 100

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.

Education 78

Education Education Universities Public and Nonprofit Management 78

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.

Public and Social Policy 82

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Food Nonprofit governance and management 82

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

“From Owing to Owning,” reads a sign at the entrance of Plaza 122, a 29,000-square-foot strip mall near the corner of SE 122nd Avenue and SE Market Street in Portland, OR. What makes the strip mall unique is its community ownership. This farm supports 20 immigrant and refugee farmers and emerging food entrepreneurs.

Public and Nonprofit Management 89

Public and Nonprofit Management Participation and motivation Nonprofit governance and management Poverty 89

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 17, 2023

By Jim Bildner In 2012, more than a decade ago, in response to a growing wave of impact investing obsession, Kevin Starr warned that impact investing was doomed to fail: “Few solutions that meet the fundamental needs of the poor will get you your money back,” he observed, and “overcoming market failure requires subsidy.”

Marketing 107

Marketing Marketing Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management 107

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

15 Today’s economy places a premium on being able to access social networks to jump from job to job, which reinforces existing privilege, because the very definition of social networks in the job market depends on having connections in high places. Moving Toward Liberation Changing the present dynamic is challenging.

Public and Social Policy 68

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 68

Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And just some areas I wanted to share with you just so that you know the kind of funding that’s going to be out there is that 65 billion is going to be directed towards counties, and many of them are going to be in the form of community development block grants. Generally, not government funding, but that doesn’t mean.

Nonprofit governance and management 114

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development Foundations 114