NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

Leadership, as it should, is likely to come from movement organizations and equity-oriented power builders directly. As a result, the North Star for both organizing and giving needs to be enhancing governing power. Rather, there are interests that benefit from current arrangements that need to be disrupted.

Philanthropy 135

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Health 135

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JANUARY 13, 2023

I served as the Program Director for community development and microenterprise development at MIFA. For seven years, I served as the Senior Program Officer for a financial intermediary providing grant making, technical assistance, and training for community development corporations, and grassroots organizations.

Nonprofit governance and management 90

Nonprofit governance and management Leadership Community Development Organizational Change 90

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? Now López uses her leadership and empathy to drive the business. How does this all work in practice?

Participation and motivation 52

Participation and motivation Nonprofit governance and management Community Development Leadership 52

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

After seven years of kitchen-table and Zoom organizing, a multi-stakeholder, cooperative, community-owned grocery store is taking shape in Louisville, KY. In October, the metro council of Louisville’s combined city-county government voted to allocate $3.5 million to help make a co-op grocery a reality. We secured $3.5

Food 106

Food Construction Public and Social Policy Governance 106

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The resources involved were modest ($240,000 total) but the ambition was large—namely, to assist Native nations to “regain control of their land and natural resources, revitalize traditional stewardship practices, and build sustainable stewardship initiatives that contribute to tribal economic and community development opportunities.”

Nonprofit governance and management 138

Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Environmental Food 138

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 12, 2023

Image Credit: Abe Camacho on unsplash.com This article introduces a new NPQ series, Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. Advocacy and organizing: None of this would be possible without advocacy—an essential avenue to build public awareness and marshal government support.

Culture 96

Culture Construction Community Development Education 96

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

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 100

Finance Community Development Non-Profits Nonprofit governance and management 100

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

This is a noticeable shift in how the government and the energy industry has historically interacted with communities. State agencies are finally taking direction on how to engage with communities and making it possible for community-based organizations like UPROSE to share input.

Energy 128

Energy Environmental Finance Governance 128

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 18, 2023

Rural communities, already with access to fewer resources , are experiencing increased climate disasters like tornadoes, hurricanes, wildfires, and floods.

Philanthropy 92

Philanthropy Poverty Governance Environmental 92

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 89

Curriculum and Teaching Finance Children Recruitment 89

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In 2018, we developed the Advancing Health Equity Through Housing (HEH) funding opportunity and supported 31 organizations working at the intersection of housing and health equity in cities across the United States. Creating a Learning Community.

Health 98

Health Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Philanthropy 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 21, 2023

By Vurayayi Pugeni , Caroline Pugeni & Dan Maxson International community development has changed significantly over its history, shifting from primarily responding to disaster events to improving communities using a sectoral approach to issues like health, agriculture, and water and sanitation.

Culture 52

Culture Agriculture Values Health 52

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2024

CRH’s salvation eventually came in the form of a collaborative approach, pivoting toward a combination of emergency funding provided by a small family foundation; a nonprofit, non-extractive loan fund; a third-party investment firm; and a coalition of Latinx community development financial institutions (CDFIs).

Finance 105

Finance Non-Profits Collaborations Public and Nonprofit Management 105

Pam Moore

AUGUST 31, 2018

Do they not understand that there is also risk by ignoring social networks where their current customers, dream customers and community is hanging out? Often times executive management and organizational leadership may not clearly understand how they can use social media, digital marketing or even personal branding for business advantage.

Management 147

Management Leadership Marketing Marketing 147

Pam Moore

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Be supportive of organic role development. If people in the community volunteer to take a leadership role for a specific area or task, openly invite, encourage and empower them to do such. Some of the best communities are self governed.

Marketing 60

Marketing Marketing Values Governance 60

Pam Moore

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Be supportive of organic role development. If people in the community volunteer to take a leadership role for a specific area or task, openly invite, encourage and empower them to do such. Some of the best communities are self governed.

Marketing 60

Marketing Marketing Values Governance 60

Pam Moore

AUGUST 31, 2018

Do they not understand that there is also risk by ignoring social networks where their current customers, dream customers and community is hanging out? Often times executive management and organizational leadership may not clearly understand how they can use social media, digital marketing or even personal branding for business advantage.

Management 60

Management Leadership Marketing Marketing 60

Pam Moore

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

What about the LED lighting brands, oil and gas, manufacturing, government regulated, healthcare and the hundreds of other industries, products and services that simply are not something we all go to Facebook to talk about? What if Your Target Audience Doesn’t Want to Talk About or With Your Brand on Facebook? What about the boring brands?

Marketing 167

Marketing Marketing Values Advertising 167

Pam Moore

DECEMBER 21, 2020

· 7 Steps to a Profitable Digital and Social Media Marketing Plan Developing a digital marketing and social media marketing plan that delivers measurable results requires more than a few pretty visuals or snazzy bite size videos you post on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.

Marketing 78

Marketing Marketing Foundations Technology 78

Pam Moore

DECEMBER 21, 2020

· 7 Steps to a Profitable Digital and Social Media Marketing Plan Developing a digital marketing and social media marketing plan that delivers measurable results requires more than a few pretty visuals or snazzy bite size videos you post on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.

Marketing 78

Marketing Marketing Foundations Technology 78

Pam Moore

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Developing a digital marketing and social media marketing plan that delivers measurable results requires more than a few pretty visuals or snazzy bite size videos you post on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram. · 7 Steps to a Profitable Digital and Social Media Marketing Plan.

Marketing 78

Marketing Marketing Foundations Technology 78

Pam Moore

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

SocialZoomFactor · Sales and Marketing Conversion Funnels – How to Get Started. One of the best ways to attract more of your dream customers and turn them into paying customers is to learn how to create and optimize sales and marketing conversion funnels.

Marketing 78

Marketing Marketing Advertising Production 78

Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And just some areas I wanted to share with you just so that you know the kind of funding that’s going to be out there is that 65 billion is going to be directed towards counties, and many of them are going to be in the form of community development block grants. And how are you sort of looking at this beyond leadership?

Nonprofit governance and management 114

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development Foundations 114

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 118

Governance Culture Construction Community Development 118

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. After a few months, they added regular and dedicated volunteer Jennifer Cheung to the leadership team.

Nonprofit governance and management 107

Nonprofit governance and management Food Public and Nonprofit Management Environmental 107

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. What would it take to fully fund the human capital, governance, and advocacy costs of nonprofits? We build community and coalition with others. If not, why not? But we still have work to do.

Public and Social Policy 123

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 123

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

We know it’s a story of extraction, [of] government reliance on the nonprofit world, but that felt like a whole lot bigger than TBF. And there’s a way that that language gets co-opted as anti-government. It’s structurally incentivized—foundations and government funders are keeping this inadequate system churning. And that hurts.

Public and Social Policy 96

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance Public and Nonprofit Management 96

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

First, democratic funds like Seed Commons, 4 Ujima Fund, 5 and the Just Transition Integrated Capital Fund gave us a new model for how communities could steward and govern capital together. These new laws channeled philanthropic assets into municipal bonds and community development loan funds, which stabilized local municipalities.

Public and Social Policy 115

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Taxation 115

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2022

A former 10,000-acre plantation, Mileston was purchased by the federal government in 1940 as part of the Resettlement Administration and redistributed to African Americans in the region, who formed 13 cooperative farms, which are owned by their descendants today. One of those programs is the Bennie G.

Food 119

Food Agriculture Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 119

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 22, 2022

They collectively pooled resources—such as skills, leadership, and knowledge—for the love of their communities and to advance social movements and uplift humankind. As a result of the movements of the 1960s, the US government and nonprofit agencies strengthened social safety nets.

Philanthropy 119

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Healthcare Universities 119

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 12, 2023

My colleagues and I began having conversations with educators, some of which were facilitated by our close partnership with two youth leadership-development and power-building Bronx institutions: Sistas and Brothas United (of the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition) and The POINT Community Development Corporation in the South Bronx.

Curriculum and Teaching 101

Curriculum and Teaching Education Education Public and Nonprofit Management 101

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

The effort resulted in a shift from a White-led nonprofit to an organization that reflects the majority people of color communities that it serves—not just in terms of staffing and leadership but also in terms of overall movement practice. 48 In a thriving community, this civic infrastructure acts as a kind of “shadow government.”

Public and Social Policy 75

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 75

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

While the title of the book might belie the scope of inquiry, Dunning makes the case that using nonprofits as a “tool for addressing urban problems” has led to a form of “urban governance” that uses private organizations to fulfill public, democratic rights. And over time, private foundations emerged and issued grants in a similar way.

Public and Social Policy 115

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Governance 115

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2023

The first Community Land Trust was and is in southwest Georgia, Albany, Georgia, founded in 1969 called New Communities Inc. But that was a group of African American families who came together to own, co-govern, control land resources and have an agricultural cooperative and really come together to self-determine.

Public and Social Policy 92

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Food Nonprofit governance and management 92

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 74

Public Policy Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 74