NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Image credit: Ahmad Odeh on Unsplash In this interview, the CEO of a California-based CDFI offers her observations on what her work as a theater director has taught her about nonprofit management. Sara Razavi: Within the CDFI [ community development financial institution ] space, we are a nonprofit loan fund.

Nonprofit Management 103

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Image credit: Drew Beamer on Unsplash For community development financial institutions (CDFIs), these are extraordinary times. One was the rise of nonprofits within the CDFI sector. An overwhelming majority of CDFIs today, however, are nonprofits. ShoreBank’s influence persists.

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Nonprofit Administration and Development Finance Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 94

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 112

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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 84

Civil Society Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Social Policy Leadership 84

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Of the food grown in the delta and the overall $6 billion in food that is grown in Mississippi, 90 percent is exported, as a 2014 report from the nonprofit, Crossroads Resource Center , documents. By contrast, the fruit and vegetables that community members eat are, as noted above, largely imported. A New Strategy .

Food 109

Food Agriculture Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 109

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

Image Credit: Sivani Bandaru on unsplash.com The common headline in the nonprofit press has been simple: Giving declined in 2022 for only the fourth time in 40 years. Nonprofit reliance on wealthy donors has other, perhaps less obvious implications. For further details, see this recent NPQ article ). The short answer is: “Unlikely.”

Nonprofit Administration and Development 83

Nonprofit Administration and Development Universities Philanthropy Education 83

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

My whole trajectory through the nonprofit sector and analysis of race and power comes from working with those organizations and having the reality of that work hit up against the visions for liberation that I had. There was a lot of administrative work, but then I also got to sit in on some of the meetings. I kept thinking, yes!

Public and Social Policy 90

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance Public and Nonprofit Management 90