NonProfit Quarterly
JUNE 14, 2023
While many foundations screen their endowment investments based on environmental, social, and governance factors, only a few optimize their investment strategies for mission impact. From inception, the pool was centered on community development financing activities and emphasized racial, gender, and economic equity.
NonProfit Quarterly
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Image credit: Ian Nicole Reambonanza on Unsplash This is the fourth article in NPQ ’s series titled Building Power, Fighting Displacement: Stories from Asian Pacific America, coproduced with the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development ( National CAPACD ). How does a refugee community organize itself?
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NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
As of 2019, there are approximately 1,000 ROCs—that’s about 2 percent of the national market, which is significant but still an admittedly modest share. ROC USA can make this work because it can extend financing via its community development financial institution (CDFI) subsidiary. How are ROCs Created?
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
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.
NonProfit Quarterly
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Fellows include an Indigenous creatives’ collective, food share programs, a systems design consultancy, a driver’s union, and a community-owned real estate developer. Like Restaurant 2 Garden, The Apsara Palace finds a nonprofit structure unsuitable for its goals.
NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 1, 2023
million in renovations to support a community-developed plan to reopen this legacy site as a collectively owned community asset. BAMBD CDC is an arts-based organization invested in community development writ large. These spaces are now closed, and gentrification is encroaching upon the buildings that housed them.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
MAY 17, 2023
By Jim Bildner In 2012, more than a decade ago, in response to a growing wave of impact investing obsession, Kevin Starr warned that impact investing was doomed to fail: “Few solutions that meet the fundamental needs of the poor will get you your money back,” he observed, and “overcoming market failure requires subsidy.”
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