NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In a room with only members from BIPOC communities present, and after grounding ourselves in somatic practice, we felt safe to share our experiences of living within a system built to extract our labor and resources at the expense of our lives, health, and wellbeing.

Nonprofit governance and management 108

Nonprofit governance and management Food Public and Nonprofit Management Environmental 108

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. I also come from a family of grocery workers and managers.

Food 95

Food Public and Nonprofit Management Medical Community Development 95

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 91

Civil Society Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Social Policy Leadership 91

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

Obachan (Grandma), will you tell me about your home from when you were young?” “The combination of racial injustice and climate disaster led to #LandBack campaigns that gave Indigenous forest stewards the resources to manage the land as they had since time immemorial.” But how would they know what the community needs?”

Public and Social Policy 117

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Taxation 117

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Connie Binkowitz, director of development and external policy at CTC, described how, in 2020, the organization received a grant from the Memphis Division of Housing and Community Development (DHCD). This grant came out of a program supported by federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) dollars.

Governance 80

Governance Community Development Collaborations Environmental 80

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

How Current Capital Systems Reinforce Inequality Foundations, philanthropists, and impact investors can do better by bridging gaps in crucial areas with flexible and patient…capital. Foundations, philanthropists, and impact investors can do better by bridging gaps in crucial areas with flexible and patient (long-term and low-cost) capital.

Finance 73

Finance Culture Foundations Public and Social Policy 73

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 2, 2023

Image Credit: Daniel Xavier on pexels This is the fourth article in NPQ ’s series titled Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. How does a small Latinx community organize itself to support homegrown businesses? Developing Community Leadership Entrepreneurs play a critical role as community builders.

Participation and motivation 52

Participation and motivation Nonprofit governance and management Community Development Leadership 52

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Nelson Colón of the Puerto Rico Community Foundation, and Clara Miller, president emerita of the Heron Foundation—come from philanthropy. Health inequities, crime levels, and immigration are all intrinsically linked to financial inequities, as are the failings of our criminal justice system. Two of them—Dr.

Public and Social Policy 124

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 124

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 21, 2023

The need to develop more childcare businesses is obvious, but how to build and sustain viable childcare businesses is not. the community development financial institution where I work, lends to families and businesses throughout the state of Maine. What can be done to address this gap? Coastal Enterprises, Inc.,

Curriculum and Teaching 92

Curriculum and Teaching Finance Children Recruitment 92

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 16, 2024

SD: At NPQ , we have long been interested in governance—how community groups make democratic decisions—and management, how you implement them. Could you talk more about what it means to approach community development as a producer and how that might lead you to approach the work differently?

Governance 121

Governance Culture Construction Community Development 121

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

And in so doing we are challenging the community development field to do better—by creating new tools to support truly equitable food-oriented development. Many large community development financial institutions , credit unions, and foundations present themselves as community-based food financing leaders.

Food 111

Food Finance Community Development Culture 111

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

But if we willfully exclude ourselves from Congressional processes, we leave money and resources on the table that will provide vital resources to our communities. We should not be naive about the resources of the government, which, like foundation endowments, are fueled by wealth that comes from our communities in the first place.

Public Policy 78

Public Policy Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 78

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 26, 2023

Hedge Funds That Conduct Classes Today, universities turn their research into lucrative commercial goods and patents in a range of fields, from the pharmaceutical industries and software products to health services and military defense weaponry.

Education 89

Education Education Universities Public and Nonprofit Management 89

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2023

Listen to the Cities@Tufts Podcast (or on the app of your choice): “The Imaginal Cells of the Solidarity Economy: Community Ownership” Transcript [The timestamps in the transcript correspond with the audio version of this lecture.] 00:03:54] A few notes. And so our first project was the Gem City market. Amaha Sellassie: [00:23:34] Yeah.

Public and Social Policy 94

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Food Nonprofit governance and management 94

Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

But if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang beyond the webinars, we are a provider of donor management software. So I always like to take a step back and say, “Okay, before we start to talk about writing, and management, and all of these other things, I think it’s really important to think about how do we get here?

Nonprofit governance and management 119

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development Foundations 119