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A Social Movement Requires Momentum

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This speaks directly to the central paradox: While the traditional approach to money management is part of the problem in philanthropy and impact investing, chosen strategies have also played an outsized role in where we are. What if DAFs and foundations relied on fund allocators and managers who are proximate to communities and their issues?

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Getting to Know Our Consultants: Olliette Murry-Drobot

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

That’s why Momentum Nonprofit Partners launched our consultant directory in 2017 and have linked hundreds of nonprofits to qualified consultants in Memphis and across the country. Tell us about your previous experience working in the nonprofit sector. Interests are intersectionality, colorism, and leadership.

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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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¡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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What Does Tribal Land Stewardship Look Like?

NonProfit Quarterly

Editors’ note: This article is from the fall 2022 issue of the Nonprofit Quarterly , “The Face of Climate Change,” and was first published on May 1, 2022. The costs of resource extraction for Native American communities are hard to overstate. The Crow are Montana’s largest Native community. Cargill Philanthropies.

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A Primer for Incubating Child Care Businesses

NonProfit Quarterly

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.,

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Making Food Systems Work for People of Color: Six Action Steps

NonProfit Quarterly

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.

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