NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 17, 2024

One driver of this ongoing inequality is the current federal system of financing, which largely depends on two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs)— Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Other structural barriers lower the home’s value from the start—limiting opportunities to grow generational wealth.

Finance 127

Finance Production Insurance Values 127

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 17, 2023

Coproduced by Partners for Rural Transformation, a coalition of six regional community development financial institutions, and NPQ , the authors highlight efforts to address multigenerational poverty in Appalachia, the rural West, Indian Country, South Texas, and the Mississippi Delta.

Poverty 128

Poverty Finance Community Development Philanthropy 128

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. These are home values, rent prices, median household income, percentage of residents who are college educated, and percentage of residents who are White.

Culture 98

Culture Construction Community Development Education 98

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

Con Edison then ascribes the value of that energy, which is what gets discounted. That ascribed value will be at least 15 percent less than a standard Con Edison electricity bill. This is a noticeable shift in how the government and the energy industry has historically interacted with communities.

Energy 130

Energy Environmental Finance Governance 130

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

JANUARY 18, 2023

We believe that funders must lend artists an ear and commit to act on more of what they hear from artists and arts workers who have people-first values at their moral core. Artists are essential to any vision that calls the future into question.

Philanthropy 99

Philanthropy Culture Agriculture Community Development 99

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 in grant funding for LCG to build a community-owned grocery.

Food 107

Food Construction Public and Social Policy Governance 107

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. Such phenomena are root causes of many challenges facing urban communities of color today. Image Credit: Mustapha Saadouni on unsplash.com.

Finance 105

Finance Community Development Non-Profits Nonprofit governance and management 105

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 13, 2023

The Value of Faith Institutions Several church leaders—both from Jackson and beyond—spoke at a plenary session about the challenges and opportunities facing faith institutions. Stephanie Swepson-Twitty of Eagle Market Streets Development Corp. Hollenback argued there is a need to “take the same approach, but for community.”

Finance 96

Finance Homelessness Healthcare Foundations 96

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 112

Finance Non-Profits Collaborations Public and Nonprofit Management 112

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 15, 2023

By Tiffany Manuel & Dana Bourland What if government, the philanthropic sector, and community advocates could pull a policy lever and advance housing, climate, and racial justice all at once? Change the narrative.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Environmental Finance Governance 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 11, 2023

The city’s animal rights organizations and municipal government became channels through which the founder’s unique approach could reach all city residents by shaping city regulations to ban animal abuse. Neighborhood book clubs were repurposed as platforms with which to educate pet owners.

Entrepreneurship 125

Entrepreneurship Collaborations Finance Food 125

Pam Moore

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

They want value. Governance with a balance of risk management and employee empowerment. Commitment to provide the highest value possible to all audience members, customers, partners and the larger ecosystem. Community development strategy and plan inclusive of social listening and engagement. They want experiences.

Governance 60

Governance Education Education Values 60

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 100

Health Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Philanthropy 100

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 is your core value proposition? He liked the photos with our family, team and communities we serve.

Marketing 167

Marketing Marketing Values Advertising 167

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

The concept paper elaborates that the trust mechanism itself is “designed to provide an on-ramp to personal savings by facilitating investment in a community asset, creating a safety net for those in asset poverty and, at the same time, spreading the value of appreciating property in a gentrifying neighborhood across the larger community” (11).

Public and Nonprofit Management 102

Public and Nonprofit Management Participation and motivation Nonprofit governance and management Poverty 102

Pam Moore

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

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. Be supportive of the OPC (other people’s communities.) When it comes to offering value to the community, don't hold back.

Marketing 60

Marketing Marketing Values Governance 60

Pam Moore

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

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. Be supportive of the OPC (other people’s communities.) When it comes to offering value to the community, don't hold back.

Marketing 60

Marketing Marketing Values Governance 60

Pam Moore

AUGUST 31, 2018

Do they not understand the value or the real risk? Do they not understand that there is also risk by ignoring social networks where their current customers, dream customers and community is hanging out? Social Profit Factor will help you develop your plan with goals, objectives and priorities within 30 days!

Management 147

Management Leadership Marketing Marketing 147

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 25, 2023

A salient example is of organizations that are focused on community development but invest in mass incarceration. Key IPS components may include scope and purpose, governance, investment asset classes, return and risk objectives, investment benchmarking, and risk management.

Public and Social Policy 116

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Non-Profits 116

Pam Moore

DECEMBER 21, 2020

What you'll learn… The #1 thing that is keeping you from success The #1 thing you must have before posting even 1 social network update 7 Essential steps to develop a profitable social media strategy & plan that delivers results How to get from strategy to plan to execution to measurable results The difference between strategy, plan and (..)

Marketing 78

Marketing Marketing Foundations Technology 78

Pam Moore

DECEMBER 21, 2020

What you'll learn… The #1 thing that is keeping you from success The #1 thing you must have before posting even 1 social network update 7 Essential steps to develop a profitable social media strategy & plan that delivers results How to get from strategy to plan to execution to measurable results The difference between strategy, plan and (..)

Marketing 78

Marketing Marketing Foundations Technology 78

Pam Moore

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Why it's critical that you take time to “ideate” to explore the options that will drive the most value for you and your target audience. How to integrate influencer marketing into your digital marketing strategies and social media marketing plans. How to tap into the power of paid, earned and owned media.

Marketing 78

Marketing Marketing Foundations Technology 78

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 108

Marketing Marketing Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management 108

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Image credit: Drew Beamer on Unsplash For community development financial institutions (CDFIs), these are extraordinary times. A true partnership between banks and CDFIs would be…organized around the idea of restoring the value of the local banking relationship. Grzywinski added that government regulators, too, have a role.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 110

Nonprofit Administration and Development Finance Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 110

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. It also laid out the building blocks to achieving three key goals: Establish the infrastructure and processes to drive inclusive equitable community development. A falta de pan, casabe.

Community Development 94

Community Development Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Cultural Diversity 94

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Despite their shortcomings, these communities represent a major source of unsubsidized affordable housing for low-income people. The Value of Resident-Owned Communities (ROCs) Opportunities for landlord exploitation of manufactured housing residents remain high….There The short answer: it is—through resident land ownership.

Manufacturing 111

Manufacturing Finance Nonprofit governance and management Law 111

Pam Moore

AUGUST 31, 2018

Do they not understand the value or the real risk? Do they not understand that there is also risk by ignoring social networks where their current customers, dream customers and community is hanging out? Social Profit Factor will help you develop your plan with goals, objectives and priorities within 30 days!

Management 60

Management Leadership Marketing Marketing 60

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? The other five work for nonprofit intermediary organizations. If not, why not?

Public and Social Policy 128

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 128

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Building a just transition from our present unsustainable, extractive economy to one that is regenerative (and therefore sustainable) is deeply relational and must be anchored in values of solidarity. Our organizations have started to map and build these networks in the Seattle area and Washington state.

Nonprofit governance and management 114

Nonprofit governance and management Food Public and Nonprofit Management Environmental 114

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 101

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance Public and Nonprofit Management 101

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Back in 2019, I published a study on what I called “cooperative cities” in which I wrote about how local governments in a dozen US cities create enabling environments for developing and sustaining worker cooperatives. Only a handful of municipal leaders at the time referred to this work as “community wealth building.”

Finance 102

Finance Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Education 102

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2024

In 1935, the Social Security Act, introduced by the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, established an idea that expressed the value that (some) Americans deserve a government that will not allow them to slide into poverty if they fall on hard times, become ill, and/or age out of the workforce.

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Poverty Law Children 111

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 22, 2022

As a result of the movements of the 1960s, the US government and nonprofit agencies strengthened social safety nets. This was especially true at the county and municipal levels, where community organizing resulted in policy wins that benefited the most vulnerable, despite a conservative backlash that eventually defunded many federal programs.

Philanthropy 126

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Healthcare Universities 126

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2022

But while the DRA is a valued partner for community groups, food justice activism in the delta, particularly among Black farmers and community organizations, precedes the authority’s creation. In 2000, Congress created the Delta Regional Authority (DRA) to address these issues.

Food 122

Food Agriculture Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 122

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 12, 2023

It requires seeding education in diverse educational spaces and developing pedagogical practices capable of building coherent cultures of democracy that align with movement values of cooperation and democracy. Their reflections reinforced the value of what I call coherence, or integrated, learning.

Curriculum and Teaching 103

Curriculum and Teaching Education Education Public and Nonprofit Management 103