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.

Food 85

Food Public and Nonprofit Management Medical Community Development 85

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.

Food 101

Food Construction Public and Social Policy Governance 101

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.

Food 109

Food Medical Community Development Finance 109

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 110

Race and Ethnicity Community Development Participation and motivation Culture 110

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

I could see those patients in my office, give them some medication, and see them again at their follow-up appointment a month later, their situation basically unchanged—or I could do something different. Connecticut and Delaware have also created similar community-rooted collaboratives. Preliminary Signs of Success.

Health 111

Health Race and Ethnicity Food Children 111

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.

Marketing 110

Marketing Marketing Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management 110

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 82

Education Education Universities Public and Nonprofit Management 82