NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 4, 2025

Michael Roberts (Tlingit), First Nations Development Institute What does justice mean in Native American communities? Those are two of the big questions asked in a new report from the First Nations Development Institute (First Nations). Our voices are invisible. The issue of sovereignty, the authors note, has multiple facets.

Public and Social Policy 113

Public and Social Policy Culture Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofit Administration and Development 113

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The labor-intensive, extractive industries paradigm that has long powered rural economies—think agriculture, manufacturing, mining, timber—has fundamentally changed due to automation and globalization , and the search for new rural development models is coalescing around a new vision.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 111

Nonprofit Administration and Development Entrepreneurship Finance Agriculture 111

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2024

In 1935, the Social Security Act, introduced by the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, established an idea that expressed the value that (some) Americans deserve a government that will not allow them to slide into poverty if they fall on hard times, become ill, and/or age out of the workforce. None of this was an accident.

Public and Social Policy 122

Public and Social Policy Poverty Children Law 122

Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And I operate a grants and fundraising consulting business, and we support nonprofits all over the country, started off primarily with those in the DMV area but it’s expanded since then. So really just trying to see how nonprofits have managed and how you’ve really been able to thrive. . And nonprofits are no exception.

Nonprofit governance and management 118

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development Foundations 118

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

5 This history of successful community-building economic development positions pro-solidarity economy efforts, uniquely, to engage the state in ways that materially transfer resources to grassroots communities and build worker power—and with it, our own base of economic power.

Public Policy 98

Public Policy Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 98

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

“RULER OF THE EARTH” BY YUET-LAM TSANG Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” How do social movements come to make the language of economic systems change their own? Nonprofits often play quasi-governmental roles.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 98

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 8, 2025

By partnering with community development financial institutions (CDFIs)mission-driven lenders focused on underserved communitiesand community banks, BND channels taxpayer dollars back to the neighborhoods theyre meant to uplift, not into shareholders pockets. percent return on investment in 2023. The need is undeniable.

Finance 142

Finance Nonprofit Administration and Development Governance Energy 142

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 21, 2025

One place where affordable housing differs from renewables is a relative lack of openness to mergers, which places many nonprofit housing firms in a potentially vulnerable position. From where I stand, as the leader of the National Housing Trust, a national housing nonprofit, I think it might. Could that change?

Nonprofit Administration and Development 71

Nonprofit Administration and Development Finance Urban development Construction 71

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 30, 2025

Such is the case with many struggles against the present administration of President Donald Trump. 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.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 142

Nonprofit Administration and Development Agriculture Food Production 142

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.

Finance 89

Finance Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management 89

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 23, 2025

The Trump administration executive order, under the pretense of streamlining federal investments, painted the CDFI Fundand, by extension, Native CDFIsas programs in need of review, despite longstanding bipartisan support and overwhelmingly positive performance. It is, as she points out , nation building work.

Governance 93

Governance Culture Community Development Finance 93