NonProfit Leadership Alliance

MAY 31, 2024

Effective leadership is crucial for these organizations to thrive and continue to serve their communities. The CNP program is designed to challenge and inspire these leaders, equipping them with the tools to excel in a sector known for its dynamic and demanding nature.

Nonprofit Leadership 189

Nonprofit Leadership Leadership Nonprofits Foundations 189

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 3, 2025

Shaila Agha of the Regen Foundation has documented how this community-centric financing addresses gaps in the formal banking systemalong with its growth to over 300,000 participants. Foundation PRIs are ideally suited to mutualist organizations that need to grow because they provide below-market loans. million children.

Nonprofit governance and management 125

Nonprofit governance and management Governance Insurance Social Enterprise 125

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 25, 2025

Despite a growing movement toward trust-based philanthropy , the majority of foundations continue to provide grants that are project-specific and time-limited. With a proven track record of impact in this area, Working Credit set a goal of expanding its services nationwide and bolstering its programming in target communities.

Social Enterprise 97

Social Enterprise Social Enterprise Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management 97

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

MAY 21, 2012

In my fundraising work with smaller nonprofit organizations, the number one thing I see hindering our grantwriting projects is staff members’ fear of calling potential foundation funders to introduce the organization and to inquire about the possible fit of project(s) with the funder’s interests. small development shop.

Homelessness 227

Homelessness Foundations Community Development Children 227

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 15, 2025

But while the report makes various calls to action (for foundations, donors, donor-advised-fund sponsors, lawyers, and policymakers, among others), it also offers a snapshot of the state of the field today, highlighting initial successes and indicating where further change in the field is required.

Public and Social Policy 106

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Public Policy 106

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 6, 2025

Since 1973, I have started or led 14 nonprofit enterprises in the arts, community development, and civic engagement sectors. He wrote, [P]rogressive advocacy organizations continue to work within their policy silos, often hampered as much by their foundation funding as helped.

Public and Social Policy 85

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Public Policy Nonprofit governance and management 85

Candid

APRIL 22, 2025

According to Points of Lights report, of the $1 trillion in grant dollars awarded by foundations from 2016 to 2025, only 0.19% was allocated to volunteer engagement. Among the top 10 largest (by total giving) institutional foundations, just 0.07% of their grant portfolios were allocated to support volunteer engagement.

Nonprofit governance and management 72

Nonprofit governance and management Recruitment Community Development Foundations 72

Ann Green

APRIL 7, 2015

Create community. Develop a community. With an extensive background working with nonprofit organizations, Lori is uniquely suited in her role of managing relationships with Kimbia’s community foundation clients and partners, helping to ensure their success. People want to support you.

Universities 188

Universities Finance Community Development Foundations 188

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Set up meetings with the community development/foundation executives or mission committees to keep relationships going strong. ” – schedule your first hour of the day to work your plan – to make calls, and do house visits before the daily emails and other tasks get in the way.

Fundraising 212

Fundraising Fundraising Community Development Foundations 212

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The result of their work is more places for people to gather and experience nature, increased social cohesion, restored civic trust, and perhaps most importantly, community development that benefits all residents. In Akron, more than 20 public, nonprofit, and community groups came together to form the Civic Commons team.

Public and Social Policy 141

Public and Social Policy Construction Community Development Governance 141

Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

Similar to the list I shared for nonprofits focusing on education , arts and culture tends to be a very popular issue area for American foundations. So, while there are a few global and national options below, most are targeted to their communities. Ford Foundation. Mellon Foundation. The Shubert Foundation.

Culture 109

Culture Foundations Education Education 109

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 25, 2023

A salient example is of organizations that are focused on community development but invest in mass incarceration. To date, discussion on mission-aligned investing has largely focused on wealthy foundations and endowed institutions, but over half of all charitable organizations have total assets of less than $1 million.

Public and Social Policy 127

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Non-Profits 127

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. But the hype persists.

Marketing 122

Marketing Marketing Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management 122

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

While we don’t believe philanthropy alone will be sufficient to address the many crises we face, we think there are many steps foundations can and must take to help even the odds for social movement organizations. Some foundations are stepping up to this reality. Where does social justice philanthropy fit in? Their main finding?

Philanthropy 139

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Health 139

Bloomerang

JUNE 17, 2022

Elton John AIDS Foundation. Prism Foundation. Pride Foundation. PFund Foundation. Horizons Foundation. The Vermont Community Foundation. The New York Women’s Foundation. Stonewall Community Foundation. New York Foundation. Maine Community Foundation.

Foundations 130

Foundations Culture Charitable Contribution Nonprofits 130

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This is a question animating much of our work in East Texas, where a local family foundation ( T.L.L. Temple ) and a community development financial institution ( Communities Unlimited ) are teaming to develop bottom-up structural solutions to building rural capacity.

Entrepreneurship 127

Entrepreneurship Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations 127

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 29, 2023

Corporations and institutional philanthropy began issuing passionate statements about “meeting the moment” and “showing up” in communities in ways that they hadn’t done before, making financial commitments that now total $340 billion. Heron Foundation offers an example of 100 percent impact endowment alignment.

Nonprofit governance and management 119

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Community Development 119

Candid

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Giving circles can be catalysts for social change The evolution of HERitage Giving Fund reflects a rich tradition of collective action that is anchored in community organizing and advocacy, and many giving circles are taking similar action.

Philanthropy 59

Philanthropy Education Education Community Development 59

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

For years, I have directed IFF , a community development financial institution that specializes in nonprofit facilities lending. A Hierarchy of Nonprofit Facilities’ Needs After 30 years in community development, I have come to think of nonprofit facilities as existing on a continuum of need.

Values 122

Values Community Development Psychology Healthcare 122

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 31, 2023

Coproduced by Partners for Rural Transformation, a coalition of six regional community development financial institutions, and NPQ , authors highlight efforts to address multi-generational poverty in Appalachia, the rural West, Indian Country, South Texas, and the Mississippi Delta. We have a population of less than 400.We

Values 130

Values Poverty Nonprofit Administration and Development Community Development 130

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 5, 2024

By recognizing that the organizations that foundations fund are best positioned to inform the solution, a trust-based approach proceeds by presuming that maximum impact is created when the organizations doing the work are fully empowered and when operational and funding barriers are removed. This is all well understood.

Philanthropy 126

Philanthropy Culture Foundations Leadership 126

Pam Moore

AUGUST 2, 2017

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Marketing 165

Marketing Marketing Foundations Community Development 165

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 19, 2025

Thompson, Twin Pines Cooperative Foundation There is an accessible alternative to a lifetime of high rent payments to landlords: limited-equity housing cooperatives (LEHCs). The San Francisco Community Land Trust , Asian Law Caucus , and Chinatown Community Development Center teamed up to buy the building and transform it into a cooperative.

Construction 70

Construction Law Governance Finance 70

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 21, 2022

At a recent professional dinner, I struck up a fascinating conversation with a woman who has spent her legal career working in civil rights, housing, and community development. I once heard a CDFI leader remark that when the borrowers we need in the community don’t exist, we as CDFIs need to go out there and create them.

Finance 112

Finance Community Development Non-Profits Nonprofit governance and management 112

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

MARCH 20, 2017

Kallie Rollenhagen is the Communications Coordinator at Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation. A Minnesota native, Kallie moved back to the land of lakes in 2015 to join the Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation (SMIF). SMIF is a rural economic development foundation serving a 20 country region of southern Minnesota.

Communication 107

Communication Finance Community Development Foundations 107

Pam Moore

JUNE 14, 2017

The core foundational issue is they have the wrong intention. You will learn why intention and trust are foundational requirements to earning attention for your digital, social media and marketing strategies and tactics. Some of them may not know better as they are not savvy on the new ways of social and digital marketing.

Foundations 166

Foundations Marketing Marketing Values 166

Pam Moore

AUGUST 28, 2017

Download this Facebook Messenger 101: Get Started Guide for Business for some quick steps to help you setup and optimize the foundations Facebook Messenger on your business Page. Facebook Pages using Messenger – 20 million. 2 billion messages sent between users and businesses on Facebook messenger monthly. 50% US teens use Messenger daily.

Advertising 167

Advertising Foundations Marketing Marketing 167

Candid

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Once the preserve of large foundations and mega-donors, impact investing is growing in popularity, including among women and younger generations. Of course, whether we’re writing checks to local charities, endowing a scholarship at our alma mater, or establishing a family foundation, we’re investing for impact. In 2023 alone, U.S.

Public and Nonprofit Management 98

Public and Nonprofit Management Environmental Foundations Philanthropy 98

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 1, 2023

million in renovations to support a community-developed plan to reopen this legacy site as a collectively owned community asset. She is also the curator and founder of Betti Ono Foundation. BAMBD CDC is an arts-based organization invested in community development writ large.

Culture 128

Culture Retail Community Development Collaborations 128

Pam Moore

OCTOBER 3, 2016

They lack the necessary training to understand data and measurement, conversion funnels, content marketing, foundational digital and visual marketing skills and the list goes on. Why social marketers must understand the foundation of business and marketing. Sign up here-> You are the Media – Building Your Media Foundation.

Marketing 167

Marketing Marketing Management Foundations 167

Candid

JUNE 9, 2021

They have created a community, which itself has been a labor of love. . One of the first projects I was assigned to after joining Candid (then Foundation Center) was the guide on participatory grantmaking, now a seminal work in the growing body of literature on participatory grantmaking.

Philanthropy 119

Philanthropy Community Development Foundations Collaborations 119

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In its first two years, the NEW Fellowship was funded by Communities of Opportunity (which receives support from King County and the Seattle Foundation) and the New Economy Washington Funders Collaborative. The Seattle Foundation has been a leader in a national movement to build Black funds.

Nonprofit governance and management 125

Nonprofit governance and management Food Public and Nonprofit Management Environmental 125

Candid

MAY 2, 2023

This is why, today, in partnership with Candid, we are pleased to announce the launch of the most comprehensive report of its kind, Philanthropy and HBCUs: Foundation funding to historically Black colleges and universities. They are “anchor” institutions that also serve as economic engines for Black and low-income communities.

Universities 98

Universities Education Education Philanthropy 98

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 22, 2023

Although too early to probe, the carbon market could also prove to be a viable economic opportunity for conservation nonprofits and coastal communities like Alligator Head. The foundation employs fishermen as sanctuary wardens, which serves as a nursery for not just fish but also the island’s most unique forest—mangroves.

Education 111

Education Education Foundations Environmental 111

Pam Moore

JUNE 2, 2017

Facebook Advertising Foundations: 5 Things You Must Do Before Spending a Dime. Increase sales by generating more leads using social media to nurture relationships. Supporting Resources: Facebook Image Sizing Reference Guide and Adobe Photoshop Templates. Facebook Advertising Policies in a Nutshell.

Advertising 167

Advertising Production Marketing Marketing 167

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2023

Akilah Watkins, who previously led the Center for Community Progress and has been a leader in the CEO Circle, a group of community development leaders of color, became president and CEO of Independent Sector in January 2023. I don’t want that just to stay in community development.

Civil Society 98

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Leadership 98

The Agitator

MARCH 25, 2013

Just got around to reading about the 13 organizations that recently won recognition (and $$) from the MacArthur Foundation for their creativity and effectiveness. million) enables peer learning and collaboration among more than 100 affordable housing and community development leaders. Here are the 13 winners for 2013.

Foundations 79

Foundations Nonprofits Law Energy 79