NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Activists directly confronted new art galleries with protests and headline-grabbing disputes over who has the right to live and work in a community that has been the center of Mexican-American history and culture for generations. Was our advocacy for community members, including the most marginalized—such as immigrant entrepreneurs—enough?

Culture 103

Culture Community Development Collaborations Activism 103

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Position : Monitor Sector : Childcare Bill : SB1053 / HB1336 Bill Summary : As introduced, enacts the "Workers Need Child Care Act"; establishes the child care infrastructure fund from which the department of economic and community development disperses grants to nonprofit entities for establishing new licensed child care agencies in this state.

Children 52

Children Nonprofit Administration and Development Law Education 52

Bloomerang

JUNE 17, 2022

Pride Month is a great time to celebrate and reflect on the work activists and nonprofit organizations are doing to support the LGBTQ+ community. With that in mind, I wanted to share a list of funding and grant resources available for nonprofits serving that community. Alliance for Full Acceptance.

Foundations 123

Foundations Culture Health Charitable Contribution 123

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

Portland is unique among these examples in that the motivation for creating community ownership, as described by the nonprofit, Mercy Corps Northwest , is less focused on supporting local BIPOC-owned businesses and more on helping BIPOC residents invest directly in joint community-land ownership.

Public and Nonprofit Management 96

Public and Nonprofit Management Participation and motivation Nonprofit governance and management Poverty 96

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 4, 2023

However, locals and nonprofits are working to sustain their traditional livelihoods. In particular, farming communities have found ways to cope with increased flooding and erosion by using strategies such as floating farms. It’s a structural measure, which always has a timeline for its functions.

Agriculture 91

Agriculture Public and Social Policy Governance Construction 91

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Government, philanthropy, and community members all relied on nonprofits during the COVID pandemic. Nonprofits organized food drives and distributed other necessities to people who were sick or at risk or had lost jobs due to the pandemic.

Governance 94

Governance Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit Administration and Development Finance 94

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Provide diversity and inclusion training for all staff and board members, to increase awareness and understanding of the issues faced by underserved communities. Develop partnerships and alliances with other organizations that serve BIPOC communities, and collaborate on initiatives that promote diversity and inclusion.

Leadership 107

Leadership Poverty Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity 107

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 15, 2023

Working through the state agencies gave us a platform to support state agencies’ implementation and developers’ compliance, and that’s exactly the kind of lever AFFH offers in the realm of fair housing now. Rally philanthropic support to leverage public investment.

Public and Social Policy 99

Public and Social Policy Environmental Finance Governance 99

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 11, 2023

The scaling-deep ventures that we observed in Detroit raised funds from various sources, most prominently value-aligned grants from nonprofit organizations. Crucially, for scaling-deep ventures, securing financial resources does not drive business model design but complements local bricolage.

Entrepreneurship 116

Entrepreneurship Collaborations Finance Food 116

Ann Green

APRIL 7, 2015

Create community. Develop a community. Lori Finch is the Vice President of Community Giving, Kimbia and the General Manager of Give Local America. People want to support you. You just have to be, as Gail Perry says, “ cheerfully aggressive ” about asking. If you’re excited about what you’re doing, they will be too.

Universities 73

Universities Finance Community Development Foundations 73

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

MAY 21, 2012

In my fundraising work with smaller nonprofit organizations, the number one thing I see hindering our grantwriting projects is staff members’ fear of calling potential foundation funders to introduce the organization and to inquire about the possible fit of project(s) with the funder’s interests. small development shop.

Homelessness 89

Homelessness Foundations Community Development Children 89

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 89

Civil Society Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Social Policy Leadership 89

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 17, 2023

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.

Marketing 109

Marketing Marketing Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management 109

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Founded in 2008 with backing from the Ford Foundation, NeighborWorks America, New Hampshire Community Loan Fund, Capital Impact Partners, and Prosperity Now, ROC USA and its affiliates have assisted 22,000 residents in over 300 communities in 21 states to collectively purchase and manage their ROCs.

Manufacturing 105

Manufacturing Finance Nonprofit governance and management Law 105

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Set up meetings with the community development/foundation executives or mission committees to keep relationships going strong. Somya Qureshi is the Resident Ninja and CEO of Nonprofit Ninja , a marketing and fundraising consulting firm. Some donors might respond quickly and favorably, while some others may not.

Fundraising 83

Fundraising Fundraising Community Development Foundations 83

Care2

APRIL 22, 2013

and serves as the Blogger-In-Chief for Care2''s top-ranked nonprofit communications blog, Frogloop. Amy has worked in private philanthropy, advocacy nonprofit organizations, web design companies, and as a consultant. She started the Radical Tech blog for Fast Company focusing on trends in technology and Web 2.0

Non-Profits 70

Non-Profits Public and Nonprofit Management Recruitment Technology 70

Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And just some areas I wanted to share with you just so that you know the kind of funding that’s going to be out there is that 65 billion is going to be directed towards counties, and many of them are going to be in the form of community development block grants. But I don’t know about that online.

Nonprofit governance and management 115

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development Foundations 115

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Nelson Colón of the Puerto Rico Community Foundation, and Clara Miller, president emerita of the Heron Foundation—come from philanthropy. The other five work for nonprofit intermediary organizations. The tendency of most nonprofits to stick to discrete subject areas misses out on a collective opportunity.

Public and Social Policy 117

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 117

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

And what’s happening in Boston—they’re experimenting with making grants to ABCD, to thinking about urban renewal through nonprofit organizations, groups like Freedom House. But one of the core arguments of the book is that the growth of the nonprofit sector is precisely because it avoids structural change.

Public and Social Policy 94

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance Public and Nonprofit Management 94

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 26, 2023

3 In this book, I explored what happens to host communities when wealthy nonprofit organizations control exorbitant amounts of land in our cities and towns. Colleges, universities, and their medical centers are registered with the Internal Revenue Service as 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit organizations.

Education 86

Education Education Universities Public and Nonprofit Management 86

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

Another approach—and one that can also face resistance—is what is known as the worker self-directed nonprofit, which applies management strategies in the worker co-op sector to nonprofits. 45 There are additional steps as well that movements can and must take beyond the nonprofit sector.

Public and Social Policy 76

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 76

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

The vehicle for the development of nonprofit infrastructure was government grants, beginning with President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty, which “expanded individual benefits related to health, education, and welfare and doubled down on the idea of working with nonprofit organizations.”

Public and Social Policy 109

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Governance 109

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2023

I’m the coordinator of the Greater Boston CLT — Community Land Trust Network, as Steve said. [00:05:05] 00:05:05] I think I’ll just briefly define a community land trust, and I can talk about the work of the network. So there are about 315 of these nonprofit organizations worldwide. You have to live in our neighborhood.

Public and Social Policy 90

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Food Nonprofit governance and management 90