NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Making matters worse, as millions of Americans struggled to withstand the economic damage of COVID-19, private equity firms expanded into the housing market, in some cases buying entire neighborhoods. Social housing is not just about providing shelter, but creating high-quality, permanently affordable housing across a range of incomes.

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NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

That changed when a team from Reimagining the Civic Commons decided to reinvigorate public spaces in Akron’s systemically disinvested neighborhoods, including Summit Lake. Moving at the Speed of Trust Employing deep listening, engaging in meetings, and building one-on-one relationships with neighbors…helped inform public space design.

Public and Social Policy 142

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Pam Moore

JUNE 2, 2017

Do you have social media, digital marketing and branding problems? We have been working the past year on a game changing online social media training academy and member community to help solve your biggest problems and challenges related to social media marketing, digital marketing, and branding.

Manufacturing 168

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

JUNE 9, 2022

The base of every marketing education is learning how to define your target audience and deliver messages that will resonate with them, influencing them to complete some identified call to action. For the past 8 years, I have been nearly exclusively working with Black-led nonprofits and nonprofits that serve predominantly Black communities.

Public and Social Policy 224

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

MAY 23, 2024

Instead of allocating everyone’s salaries into an overhead budget, organizations should conduct a Functional Allocation Time Study about twice a year, where every employee will track what they do in 15-minute increments throughout the day and assign them to either programming, marketing, fundraising, or management/general.

Public and Social Policy 247

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 25, 2023

A salient example is of organizations that are focused on community development but invest in mass incarceration. Liquidity policies help organizations understand the resources needed to carry out ongoing operating activities, but even liquid assets can be managed with an eye towards mission.

Public and Social Policy 127

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

But I always had a sense of those organizations when I worked there, an internal critique of what kind of social change were we really bringing about. And why did we rely on private ones to solve what felt like public problems? But I wrote an op-ed saying…this is not a policy-based response to the affordable housing crisis in JP.

Public and Social Policy 106

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The idea that land banks and community land trusts (CLT) might both benefit by working more closely with each other is more than a decade old. Public entities with unique governmental powers, land banks acquire vacant, tax-delinquent properties that are causing harm , improve them, then dispose of the properties to support community goals.

Public and Social Policy 116

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NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Often, the very same nonprofit that is advocating for social justice policy may pay its own workers poverty-level wages. Nelson Colón of the Puerto Rico Community Foundation, and Clara Miller, president emerita of the Heron Foundation—come from philanthropy. The reality is more complicated.

Public and Social Policy 133

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The West Holmes Community Development Organization, which traces its origins to one of these farms, modernized their cooperative farm and started a farmer’s market , which now forms part of a youth-led, sustainable food system for Mileston and Holmes County. A New Strategy .

Food 127

Food Agriculture Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 127

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Yet despite these challenges, global philanthropy has much to learn from South Africa on democracy, development practice, and social justice. According to Afrobarometer, between 2011 and 2024, levels of public satisfaction with the democratic state also plummeted to 39 percent from 60 percent. Where is philanthropy?

Philanthropy 97

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NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2023

Image credit: Chris Briggs on unsplash.com Dr. 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. I was ready for that challenge and opportunity.

Civil Society 98

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MNA Association

OCTOBER 16, 2024

We also know that partnering with government and the public sector is critical to advance our missions and build thriving communities. Montana’s nonprofit sector strengthens the foundation of our communities, making them stronger, healthier, and more vibrant. Nonprofit leaders play an important role in shaping public policy.

Public and Social Policy 98

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NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 4, 2023

Ideally, sustainable farming efforts along with improved disaster-recovery policies that enable people to maintain their livelihoods and social structures will help people to stay in place, reducing the number of climate refugees. We now have enough for our consumption as well as to sell in the local markets,” says Chatterjee.

Agriculture 105

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

And, of course, there are always contingencies with public money. In response to the protests and adverse national publicity, Louisville put into place a civilian review board. Reporters and community members have also complained about LMPD’s failure to respond to records requests. We secured $3.5

Food 111

Food Construction Public and Social Policy Governance 111

Nonprofit Megaphone

AUGUST 9, 2024

Adhere to the program policies for using your Google Grant funding. Google Ads direct interested readers to volunteer opportunities, donation pages, pet adoptions, classes, webinars, events, or key information about community development. However, philanthropic arms of educational institutions may still be eligible.

Public and Nonprofit Management 98

Public and Nonprofit Management Public and Social Policy Nonprofits Management 98

Nonprofit Megaphone

AUGUST 26, 2024

Adhere to the program policies for using your Google Grant funding. Google Ads direct interested readers to volunteer opportunities, donation pages, pet adoptions, classes, webinars, events, or key information about community development. However, philanthropic arms of educational institutions may still be eligible.

Public and Social Policy 98

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NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2023

Over the course of our lecture series, we’ve talked a lot about the crucial role that community plays in building alternatives to capitalistic models of access, resource distribution and social equity. And Amaha Sellassie, who is co-executive director of Co-op Dayton and the board president of West Dayton’s Gem City Market. [00:03:54]

Public and Social Policy 106

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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.

Community Development 135

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This number is somewhat deceptive since it includes large public companies where the only employee benefit is stock ownership. Barriers to Capital: Many practices and policies limit potential employee-owners’ access to capital. According to NCEO , as of December 2021, the US was home to 6,482 ESOP companies with 10.2

Public and Social Policy 122

Public and Social Policy Finance Governance Non-Profits 122

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

SD: You have spoken before about your experience working in public education prior to moving to Mississippi. I was a teacher, a public high school teacher, working in the Oakland Unified School District. And eventually, I was able to help create…the New Small Autonomous Schools policy. They don’t have it anymore, unfortunately.…This

Public and Social Policy 139

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

2 It has been edited for publication here. The growth of these efforts required more access to nonextractive investment capital, creating a demand for public banks and democratic loan funds across the country.” With more local resources, child care became free, along with public school–provided breakfasts and lunches.” “How

Public and Social Policy 133

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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? We think it can. We think it can.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Decades of discriminatory housing, transportation, and land-use policy combined with economic disinvestment have resulted in communities that are residentially segregated by income, race, ethnicity, language, and immigration status. Learning About Community Power.

Health 106

Health Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Philanthropy 106

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

While the title of the book might belie the scope of inquiry, Dunning makes the case that using nonprofits as a “tool for addressing urban problems” has led to a form of “urban governance” that uses private organizations to fulfill public, democratic rights. Dunning smartly points out that this approach turned rights into privilege.

Public and Social Policy 125

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Governance 125

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Advocacy and organizing for racially equitable housing policies is a cornerstone of building a just housing system in the United States. COVID-19 has exacerbated this crisis, and the country’s recent racial reckoning has heightened awareness of the need for racially equitable housing policies to support healthier communities.

Public and Social Policy 112

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Poverty Health 112