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.

Food 101

Food Finance Community Development Culture 101

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?

Race and Ethnicity 111

Race and Ethnicity Community Development Participation and motivation Culture 111

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.

Culture 98

Culture Retail Community Development Collaborations 98

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

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. In this area, one strategy is being tested by Integrity Community Solutions, Inc.

Manufacturing 104

Manufacturing Finance Nonprofit governance and management Law 104

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. At the same time, one of us, Lizzy Baskerville, managed a community garden for elder Asian neighbors.

Nonprofit governance and management 96

Nonprofit governance and management Food Public and Nonprofit Management Environmental 96