NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The nonprofit sector, along with community-based mutual aid networks , stepped up to meet immediate needs. If we want nonprofits to support us in the next crisis, they must have sufficient resources. And to know what nonprofits need to do their jobs effectively, we must ask them directly. It wasn’t for-profit companies.

Governance 111

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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

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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. The nonprofit sector is hugely important both economically and socially to this country.

Civil Society 98

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NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 13, 2023

As such, it is no surprise that East Boston sits in a flood zone and is burdened by high levels of air pollution and industrial hazards, the newest being an electrical substation being built near a playground despite years of community opposition. We also need our government agencies to protect us.

Race and Ethnicity 128

Race and Ethnicity Health Environmental Children 128

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Monitor Legislation that Impacts Your Nonprofit and the Children and Families You Serve Nonprofits must be legislative watchdogs for three key reasons: Impact awareness: New laws affect funding, operations, and beneficiary eligibility. Advocacy opportunity: Proactive engagement shapes legislation to better serve communities.

Children 52

Children Nonprofit Administration and Development Law Education 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.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 4, 2025

Michael Roberts (Tlingit), First Nations Development Institute What does justice mean in Native American communities? Those are two of the big questions asked in a new report from the First Nations Development Institute (First Nations). Our voices are invisible. The issue of sovereignty, the authors note, has multiple facets.

Public and Social Policy 113

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The labor-intensive, extractive industries paradigm that has long powered rural economies—think agriculture, manufacturing, mining, timber—has fundamentally changed due to automation and globalization , and the search for new rural development models is coalescing around a new vision.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 111

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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. None of this was an accident.

Public and Social Policy 122

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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

Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And I operate a grants and fundraising consulting business, and we support nonprofits all over the country, started off primarily with those in the DMV area but it’s expanded since then. So really just trying to see how nonprofits have managed and how you’ve really been able to thrive. . And nonprofits are no exception.

Nonprofit governance and management 118

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NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

5 This history of successful community-building economic development positions pro-solidarity economy efforts, uniquely, to engage the state in ways that materially transfer resources to grassroots communities and build worker power—and with it, our own base of economic power. My co-op] is like my second family.

Public Policy 98

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

“RULER OF THE EARTH” BY YUET-LAM TSANG Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” How do social movements come to make the language of economic systems change their own? Nonprofits often play quasi-governmental roles.

Public and Social Policy 98

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NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 21, 2025

One place where affordable housing differs from renewables is a relative lack of openness to mergers, which places many nonprofit housing firms in a potentially vulnerable position. From where I stand, as the leader of the National Housing Trust, a national housing nonprofit, I think it might. Could that change?

Nonprofit Administration and Development 71

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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.

Finance 89

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NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 7, 2023

Image Credit: edgeeffectmedia.com on unsplash.com Leah Rothstein has been a consultant to nonprofit housing developers, local government, and private firms. We interviewed housing policy experts, fair housing experts, and community development experts. The community can use that plan to hold officials accountable.

Law 122

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NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 29, 2024

If you come in solidarity, you recognize that your future, your fate, your destiny, your health, your wellbeing, your safety, everything is tied up with mine. But then she is part of an administration that is sending billions of dollars advancing their devastation. And develop a group called Mothers for Cease Fire.

Culture 124

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