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 106

Food Finance Community Development Culture 106

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 116

Race and Ethnicity Community Development Participation and motivation Culture 116

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 104

Culture Retail Community Development Collaborations 104

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 107

Manufacturing Finance Nonprofit governance and management Law 107

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 109

Marketing Marketing Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management 109

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 102

Nonprofit governance and management Food Public and Nonprofit Management Environmental 102