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Local Solutions to Federal Problems: Moving Climate Dollars to Communities

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: AndreyPopov on istock.com How can frontline communities access public funding for climate solutions? But some needed elements are clear: these include expertise; values-aligned capacity-building partners; relationships that are built on trust, accountability, and transparency; and flexible funding.

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Building Infrastructure to Support Equity: A Conversation with Dr. Akilah Watkins

NonProfit Quarterly

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.

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Industry Founders Challenge CDFIs to Embrace a More Expansive Vision

NonProfit Quarterly

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. And it would include a large technical assistance component. That’s true.

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Impact Investing Can’t Deliver by Chasing Market Returns

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Most practitioners working in community development have accepted this as the reality of impact investing: The harder you drive for social impact in disadvantaged communities, the farther away you get from unbuffered full market return.

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

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.

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Behind the Numbers: Giving USA Panel Sheds Light on Longer Term Trends

NonProfit Quarterly

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.”

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The Nonprofit Sector and Social Change: A Conversation between Cyndi Suarez and Claire Dunning

NonProfit Quarterly

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!