Community Development Food Insurance 
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.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
APRIL 3, 2025
In what is now the United States, Benjamin Franklin created the first mutual bank and mutual insurance company in 1752, after a devastating fire destroyed much of Philadelphia. Like Hemstreet, Pastor Brown just got started, and worked to build community. His church organized vegetable gardens on the church property.
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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.
NonProfit Quarterly
OCTOBER 25, 2023
Image credit: TuiPhotoengineer on istock.com This is the fifth and final 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 ).
NonProfit Quarterly
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Image credit: Ian Nicole Reambonanza on Unsplash This is the fourth 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 ). How does a refugee community organize itself?
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 25, 2023
A salient example is of organizations that are focused on community development but invest in mass incarceration. To choose an adviser, they convened a committee of staff and board members to issue a request for proposals and interview advisers who would uphold their organizational priorities to fight food insecurity. “In
MNA Association
OCTOBER 16, 2024
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. Make sure there are no roadblocks in place preventing non-profits from acquiring services or setting up systems in financial markets, including the insurance markets.
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