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How Guarantees Can Advance Community Development and Racial Equity

NonProfit Quarterly

While many foundations screen their endowment investments based on environmental, social, and governance factors, only a few optimize their investment strategies for mission impact. At the most basic level, a guarantee is akin to automobile insurance. At the most basic level, a guarantee is akin to automobile insurance.

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Local Solutions to Federal Problems: Moving Climate Dollars to Communities

NonProfit Quarterly

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.

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Organizing a Community Around Food Sovereignty

NonProfit Quarterly

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.

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¡Adelante! A Latinx Community Organizes to Generate Community Wealth

NonProfit Quarterly

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.

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“Educational Purposes”: Nonprofit Land as a Vital Site of Struggle

NonProfit Quarterly

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.

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The Imaginal Cells of the Solidarity Economy: Community Ownership

NonProfit Quarterly

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.