Getting Attention

MARCH 22, 2012

2) Communications Associate. 3) Communications Associate and Director of Development and Communications. National Alliance to End Homelessness (Washington, D.C.). 4) Communications Coordinator , EMILY’S List (Washington, D.C.). 5) Communications Director , Progress Michigan (Lansing, MI).

Marketing 58

Marketing Marketing Homelessness Associations 58

Getting Attention

JULY 31, 2013

House homeless individuals, veterans and others with special needs. Are a community development org in Trenton, and foster self-reliant families in sustainable communities. Are in lower Fairfield county, CT, and provide emergency assistance to help keep people in their homes.

Homelessness 72

Homelessness Community Development Children Education 72

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

In Los Angeles, a broad coalition of housing, labor, climate, and interfaith groups went to the ballot and won the United to House LA measure , a “mansion tax” on property sales of over $5 million to fund social housing and homelessness prevention programs.

Public and Social Policy 143

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development 143

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

Image Credit: Vyacheslav Dumchev on istock This is the second article in NPQ ’s series titled Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. In Long Beach, CA, Latinx renters face increasing threats of gentrification and displacement.

Law 98

Law Community Development Cultural Diversity Children 98

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Provide diversity and inclusion training for all staff and board members, to increase awareness and understanding of the issues faced by underserved communities. Develop partnerships and alliances with other organizations that serve BIPOC communities, and collaborate on initiatives that promote diversity and inclusion.

Leadership 121

Leadership Poverty Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity 121

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. In a massive charitable response, vast networks of locally supported food pantries, coat drives, homeless shelters, community clinics, and free schools have been launched and sustained.

Public and Social Policy 132

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

GiveGab

JUNE 14, 2022

From food banks to homeless shelters, nonprofit service organizations are the driving forces behind building better communities. They do the admirable and time-intensive work that makes our communities a better place to live, and technology plays an undeniable role in that. About the Author.

Management 52

Management Technology Sociology Urban development 52

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Image credit: coffeekai on istock.com Community is one of humanity’s great achievements. Yet community development corporations , a $28 billion sector of over 6,200 nonprofits that support local community economic development, are largely invisible in the national conversation. That was part of the problem.

Community Development 135

Community Development Public and Social Policy Governance Production 135

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 16, 2023

CNN recently reported that “California has spent billions to fight homelessness. The second example illustrates an important intermediary step towards eliminating homelessness from a Zero-Problem Philanthropy vision. Yet, replicating this transformation in many other hotels in New York did not lower the number of homeless people.

Philanthropy 139

Philanthropy Homelessness Psychology Medical 139

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 30, 2024

For example, initiatives that seek to develop the lives of people from homeless communities have discovered how living in a private apartment with no prior requirements can have dramatic effects on unhoused people. I4HC is community development that is grounded in an explicit development focus on healthy context.

Health 118

Health Public and Social Policy Medical Governance 118

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Limited housing stock impacts families by raising their housing costs to unaffordable levels, forcing people to move or face homelessness. Since 2013, over 100 churches have sought housing and community development assistance and financing from the United Church of Christ Church Building & Loan Fund (CB&LF) that I direct.

Community Development 130

Community Development Finance Production Homelessness 130

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 12, 2025

Detroiters did not widely know these numbers before, and their repetition over the past three years has changed the conversation on community development in Detroit. The research compiled by DPP and its allies was folded into community meetings and candidate forums for the 2021 municipal elections.

Public and Social Policy 83

Public and Social Policy Finance Community Development Homelessness 83

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Housing instability—whether through homelessness or frequent evictions and moves—creates chronic, toxic stress and exposes people to traumatic and unhealthy situations. Creating a Learning Community. When housing is unaffordable, it leaves little money left over to buy healthy foods and critical medicines.

Health 105

Health Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Philanthropy 105

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. Okay, so I’m just going to talk about some examples here.

Nonprofit governance and management 118

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

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

For example, through its partnership with FNL, UPILF was able to assist a young man on the verge of homelessness after the death of his infant son. UPILF also partners with NEST , a community development organization that offers loans and financial education to first-time homeowners in underserved Connecticut communities.

Education 110

Education Education Community Development Homelessness 110

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Mike Koprowski: Success will be when race no longer predicts one’s likelihood of experiencing unaffordable rent, homelessness, and living in areas of concentrated poverty—when we have eliminated those things altogether for all people.

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Poverty Health 111