NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 15, 2025

billion) in assets under management and a 30-year track record, isnt wrong per se. That is the central conclusion of a new report released last December by Boston Impact Initiative , a nonprofit place-based investor in the Boston area and a promoter of the field nationwide. Each fund is unique.

Public and Social Policy 106

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

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 82

Construction Law Governance Finance 82

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 25, 2023

Many in the nonprofit sector look at their income statements (also known as the “profit and loss” report), but unless you’re a chief financial officer or perform a similar role, you may spend far less time looking at your organization’s overall financial position. These assets help nonprofits deliver on their missions by generating income.

Public and Social Policy 127

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

Candid

APRIL 22, 2025

nonprofit sector, yet it remains significantly underfunded. of nonprofit leaders say volunteers enable them to provide essential services they otherwise could not. Yet, without greater investment in volunteer engagement and infrastructure, nonprofits will continue to struggle to fully leverage this valuable resource.

Nonprofit governance and management 72

Nonprofit governance and management Recruitment Community Development Foundations 72

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Image credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” W hat would a nonprofit sector that pursued economic justice look like? The other five work for nonprofit intermediary organizations. Two of them—Dr.

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 132

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

Anedot

APRIL 8, 2025

Emergency Assistance & Case Management: Financial and resource support for crises. Thrift Store: Generating funds for community programs. Abriendo Caminos: Strengthening engagement and leadership within the Latino community. Ensure adherence to nonprofit regulations and best practices.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 52

Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 52

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

My whole trajectory through the nonprofit sector and analysis of race and power comes from working with those organizations and having the reality of that work hit up against the visions for liberation that I had. That when the foundation called, people took my call. Why was the nonprofit sector doing this? CS : I know Geeta!

Public and Social Policy 106

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

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

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In the nonprofit sector, it requires transcending the standard hierarchical funder-nonprofit dynamics and replacing them with norms of power sharing and reciprocity. 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

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Not only is it possible to access federal funds, but the same elements that are needed for frontline and underinvested, predominantly BIPOC communities to benefit from public funding are also the most promising approaches to address more broadly the impacts of climate change at the local level.

Governance 110

Governance Community Development Environmental Collaborations 110

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

One is that many foundations, under the guise of philanthropic pluralism , have supported a status quo that has harmed South Africa’s Black majority. A Government of National Unity As a response to the dwindling support, the ANC agreed to form a coalition government. Today, that democracy is fraying.

Philanthropy 97

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Poverty Civil Society 97

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 9, 2024

To find out, NPQ interviewed Malik Kenyatta Yakini, cofounder of the Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network (DBCFSN); Lanay Gilbert-Williams, current co-op board president; and Akil Talley, the co-op’s first full-time permanent general manager. We did a lot of community engagement sessions.”

Food 134

Food Nonprofit governance and management Finance Governance 134

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Founded in 2008 with backing from the Ford Foundation, NeighborWorks America, New Hampshire Community Loan Fund, Capital Impact Partners, and Prosperity Now, ROC USA and its affiliates have assisted 22,000 residents in over 300 communities in 21 states to collectively purchase and manage their ROCs.

Manufacturing 116

Manufacturing Finance Nonprofit governance and management Law 116

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. One avenue is to expand “community ownership” of property, a strategy that has received increased attention in recent years.

Finance 112

Finance Community Development Non-Profits Nonprofit governance and management 112

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 111

Food Public and Nonprofit Management Medical Community Development 111

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. After raising $4.5

Food 131

Food Community Development Medical Finance 131

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 16, 2023

Image credit: Corey Agopian on unsplash.com This article concludes NPQ’s series Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. Those who’ve managed to scratch out a way to stay are at risk every day of being erased. Boost cultural economic development with commercial district revitalization strategies.

Community Development 98

Community Development Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Cultural Diversity 98

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 122

Food Finance Community Development Culture 122

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 106

Curriculum and Teaching Finance Children Recruitment 106

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

The complex is modest, but it houses an estimated 27 primarily immigrant-led small businesses and nonprofits. What makes the strip mall unique is its community ownership. Each community also has its own specific reasons for seeking community ownership. Paul, New Orleans, Anchorage, and Los Angeles.

Public and Nonprofit Management 106

Public and Nonprofit Management Participation and motivation Nonprofit governance and management Poverty 106

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 2, 2023

Coproduced with the National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders , a national network of Latinx community development groups, this series highlights community preservation, land ownership, and business development efforts in Latinx and immigrant communities across the country.

Participation and motivation 52

Participation and motivation Community Development Nonprofit governance and management Leadership 52

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2023

All Moderated by Steve Dubb of the Nonprofit Quarterly. Below you’ll find the graphic recording, audio, video, and transcript from “The Imaginal Cells of the Solidarity Economy: Community Ownership” presented by the U.S. Steve Dubb: [00:02:31] Welcome to Imagining Cells of the Solidarity Economy: Community Ownership.

Public and Social Policy 106

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Food Nonprofit governance and management 106

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 4, 2025

We hear a lot about justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion from foundations. One involves the unfilled legal, moral, and economic obligations established by hundreds of treaties with the US government. And a third are limits on Native representation in the US government itself. Image courtesy of First Nations.

Public and Social Policy 114

Public and Social Policy Culture Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofit Administration and Development 114

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 118

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

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

Image credit: Yannick Lowery / www.severepaper.com Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s fall 2023 issue, “How Do We Create Home in the Future? But how would they know what the community needs?” Two things changed how wealth was managed. Reshaping the Way We Live in the Midst of Climate Crisis.”

Public and Social Policy 133

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Taxation 133

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 16, 2024

The interview that follows explores the history of the Clayborn Temple, the project to restore it, and the vision of Troutman and her colleagues to use the temple as a hub for developing a community-based economy in Memphis that i s Black-owned, Black-governed, and which sustains a thriving culture rooted in the Black imagination.

Governance 135

Governance Culture Construction Community Development 135

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 24, 2023

It was a smaller autonomous school called the School of Social Justice and Community Development. However, eight months after Lumumba was elected, he died of heart failure, and the anticipated alliance with the city government did not materialize. That day management got on their ass—we were there. We had to educate them.

Education 141

Education Education Food Governance 141

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Image credit: Christian Ouellet on istock.com Financing challenges often stymie nonprofits. Executive Director Luis Gallardo calculated that the nonprofit would need half a million dollars in the best-case scenario and, more likely, a million dollars to reach the first milestones. Yet even after having been awarded an $11.2

Non-Profits 125

Non-Profits Finance Collaborations Public and Nonprofit Management 125

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

With the WORK Act, tens of millions of dollars in government resources will be disbursed to employee-ownership centers around the country, fundamentally changing the playing field for worker-owners, freelancers, and cooperative innovators. What if that scale of resources flowed to our communities instead of to Wall Street?

Public Policy 98

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Separating people from who and what they need causes trauma not just individually, but at the community level, which has negative consequences for people’s health. Both the foundation and grantees participated in developing learning questions, sensemaking, and application of learning to practice.

Health 105

Health Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Philanthropy 105

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 26, 2023

Image Credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” At the height of the pandemic, I was swept up in a titanic battle being waged over the right to a city. 1 That city was New Haven, Connecticut.

Education 98

Education Education Universities Public and Nonprofit Management 98

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 7, 2025

How can community development promote inclusive growth, while avoiding displacement? An emerging community development tool, known as a perpetual purpose trust (sometimes referred to as a PPT), seeks to address that challenge. A strip of property on Kensington Street in Philadelphia, owned by Kensington Corridor Trust.

Nonprofit governance and management 92

Nonprofit governance and management Non-Profits Environmental Governance 92

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

Image Credit: cottonbro studio on pexels.com It’s not often that a body of work comes along that makes us ask big questions about the nonprofit sector. Claire Dunning’s new book, Nonprofit Neighborhoods , is one. In it, she not only traces the development of the nonprofit sector.

Public and Social Policy 125

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Governance 125

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. million businesses nationally.

Finance 89

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

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Darmstadt, a city of more than 168,000, is striving to balance the influx of newcomers while also managing the social and economic implications of diversifying populations. Yulia Ihnatieva, 42, cooks okroshka, a Ukrainian summer soup, inside her government-sponsored apartment in Darmstadt, Germany in July. It is rarely straightforward.

Nonprofit governance and management 102

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 102

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 29, 2024

amb: I started doing this election time conversation series because the narrative I have had is that the left is incredibly fractured, and the nonprofit world is incredibly fractured. It has been really beautiful to watch this local community develop a choir. And develop a group called Mothers for Cease Fire.

Culture 124

Culture Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management 124