NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

One tool that is available to nonprofit housing developers to address this situation is the limited equity cooperative (LEC). Opportunities and Challenges LECs offer significant opportunities for community development practitioners and more importantly for low- and moderate-income households seeking to own a home.

Nonprofit governance and management 104

Nonprofit governance and management Manufacturing Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 104

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 25, 2025

Credit: Morgan Housel on Unsplash The funding landscape for nonprofits has undergone a seismic shift. Todays model for funding nonprofits and social enterprises is fundamentally broken. This means providing funding with the purpose of investing in the capacity of nonprofits to invest in their own enterprises.

Social Enterprise 105

Social Enterprise Social Enterprise Nonprofit Administration and Development Finance 105

Candid

JULY 15, 2025

This is a fundamental role shift for nonprofits from service delivery and advocacy to facilitating community ownership and wealth building—where communities build and own assets that generate sustainable resources. Shared governance: Sharing leadership across multiple nonprofits is difficult but worth it.

Culture 59

Culture Entrepreneurship Collaborations Governance 59

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 15, 2025

But if the goal is to build a solidarity economy or foster a structural shift in the economy so that US business owners of color have the same ability to finance and develop thriving businesses as White business owners, then investor willingness to sacrifice some degree of financial return for social impact is required.

Public and Social Policy 105

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Public Policy 105

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 6, 2025

Nonprofits canand ought toengage in a wide range of civic and election-related activities. Since 1973, I have started or led 14 nonprofit enterprises in the arts, community development, and civic engagement sectors. After all, 501c3 nonprofits cannot endorse candidates for public office.

Public and Social Policy 96

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Public Policy Nonprofit governance and management 96

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Addressing this requires intervention both by policymakers and nonprofit organizations. The most crucial asset that nonprofits can bring to the table is trust. Many nonprofits also operate successful credit repair and homebuyer preparation programs, which can improve mortgage access. CDFIs can help finance these efforts.

Construction 80

Construction Public and Social Policy Finance Poverty 80

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Floating Doctors similarly offers mobile healthcare, education, and community development to underserved communities worldwide. In Sierra Leone, for example, the nonprofit is currently serving a majority-Muslim population.

Medical 116

Medical Healthcare Nonprofit governance and management Health 116

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 3, 2025

By Sara Horowitz You can feel it when you walk into a mutualist space for the first timewhether its a worker cooperative in North Carolina , a community garden , a labor-housing cooperative , a cohousing group in New York City, a nonprofit building in Portland, Oregon , or a social cooperative in the Italian Alps. million children.

Nonprofit governance and management 125

Nonprofit governance and management Governance Insurance Social Enterprise 125

The Charity CFO

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Successful nonprofits and for-profit businesses alike use a variety of key performance indicators (KPIs) to help track their organizations performance. This guide will explore some of the most common nonprofit KPIsincluding how to calculate themto help you pick the right KPIs for your nonprofit.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 52

Nonprofit Administration and Development Retention Nonprofits Health 52

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 3, 2025

Image credit: AmnajKhetsamtip on iStock Community development financial institutions (CDFIs) have emerged as pivotal players in bridging financial gaps in underserved communities. They often operate as nonprofit loan funds, credit unions, or community-focused banks.

Finance 85

Finance Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management 85

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

What becomes critical here is to capture these rental units for public use by implementing tenant and community right of first refusal options and prioritizing access for nonprofits (such as community development corporations ). Nonprofit housing groups, in short, can be movement allies, not opponents.

Public and Social Policy 131

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 131

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 8, 2025

Unlike big commercial banks, most public banks (and all California public banks under state law) will be nonprofits and use their earnings from loan interest and fees to reinvest in local economies and large-scale community-wide projects. Instead, public banks partner with local banks to expand community-driven impacts.

Nonprofit governance and management 128

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance Finance 128

Candid

APRIL 22, 2025

nonprofit sector, yet it remains significantly underfunded. of nonprofit leaders say volunteers enable them to provide essential services they otherwise could not. Yet, without greater investment in volunteer engagement and infrastructure, nonprofits will continue to struggle to fully leverage this valuable resource.

Nonprofit governance and management 72

Nonprofit governance and management Recruitment Community Development Foundations 72

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 8, 2025

This reliance on external drivers did not sit comfortably with Neugebauer, whose background is in community development and social innovation. Bringing in money and resources to organizations is a really important thing to do, but we miss this opportunity to build a foundation of civic and community engagement, she told NPQ.

Children 63

Children Philanthropy Education Education 63

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 4, 2025

The report also highlights some of the economic impacts: Native peoples, communities, and enterprises are excluded from philanthropy, investments, capital, and banking, and other economic systems. Culture and language, and their preservation, are also critical to Native conceptions of justice and political strategy.

Public and Social Policy 113

Public and Social Policy Culture Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofit Administration and Development 113

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The city fully embraces Gemeinwesenarbeit, a German term that refers to community development. Social workers are deployed in eight quarters throughout Darmstadt to organize meetings, promote community engagement and provide assistance with government processes. But housing is just one layer.

Nonprofit governance and management 101

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 101

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 2, 2025

And so, I think that’s a key takeaway from some of the work in New York City and state is over time, as the pressures, the profit motives, that could come from privatizing existing social housing or commodifying it—as that grows, we need to have a reaction from the state, from residents, from our nonprofit partners.

Health 94

Health Community Development Nonprofits 94

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 3, 2025

Credit: melitas on iStock With over two decades of experience in the nonprofit sector, Venu Gupta has learned that key to building a strong democracy are strong connections—and, more specifically, strong friendships.

Leadership 99

Leadership Energy Activism Civil Society 99

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Enter community development financial institutions (CDFIs). These conditions allowed Communities Unlimited and PeopleFund time, space, and resources to make important early decisions about launching services, such as office location and staffing, uninhibited from pressures to deliver immediate, short-term results.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 111

Nonprofit Administration and Development Entrepreneurship Finance Agriculture 111

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 8, 2025

Confronting the US Political Crisis While Puerto Rico was at the center of the conference, an event focused on racial equity could not ignore recent developments in Washington, DC. Like the rest of the United States, Puerto Rico and Puerto Rican nonprofits have faced threatened freezes to federal aid, jeopardizing essential services.

Public and Social Policy 63

Public and Social Policy Participation and motivation Law Public and Nonprofit Management 63

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Typically, a one-megawatt solar array can power at least 400 homes for a year at a cost of about $4 million—making this cost-prohibitive to most community developers. What are some practical strategies for building local capacity and breaking a colonial mindset around community energy production?

Energy 132

Energy Environmental Community Development Public Policy 132

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 22, 2025

Image Credit: Brian Koellish on iStock Nearly a third of US communities are CDFI deserts. In these turbulent times, many leaders of the nations growing network of community development financial institutions (CDFIs)which now collectively manage $468 billion in assets, a 615 percent increase over the past decadehave high hopes.

Finance 105

Finance Nonprofit Administration and Development Poverty Public and Nonprofit Management 105

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 2, 2025

And I do think a lot of the times we’re thinking about nonprofit affordable housing developers and maybe some elected officials. Kristen Hackett: [To answer] the question of “How do we build broad support for the social housing movement or the housing movement in general?”—we we have to think about who’s the base here.

Activism 94

Activism Community Development Nonprofits 94

Anedot

APRIL 8, 2025

Work closely to develop a collaborative, symbiotic relationship with the Board of Directors to set goals and objectives for WMCS. Ensure adherence to nonprofit regulations and best practices. Nonprofit board experience, with the ability to articulate and collaborate with the board on a long-term vision for the organization.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 52

Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 52

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

A Personal Connection Ive worked in the nonprofit sector for two decades, but my commitment to the compassionate lending movement grew more recently, out of a family crisis. Her situation led me to ask myself: How could the educational nonprofit that I lead effectively intervene in cases like hers?

Education 110

Education Education Community Development Homelessness 110

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 30, 2025

Virtually everyone I know is finding ways to supportand celebrate the successes ofthe vital struggles being led by federal workers , nonprofit workers , and community development financial institutions. Such is the case with many struggles against the present administration of President Donald Trump.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 142

Nonprofit Administration and Development Agriculture Food Production 142

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 21, 2025

One place where affordable housing differs from renewables is a relative lack of openness to mergers, which places many nonprofit housing firms in a potentially vulnerable position. From where I stand, as the leader of the National Housing Trust, a national housing nonprofit, I think it might. Could that change?

Nonprofit Administration and Development 69

Nonprofit Administration and Development Finance Urban development Construction 69

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

MAY 15, 2025

President Trump's proposed budget eliminates much of the federal CDFI Fund, which since 1994 has enabled community development nonprofits to support millions of small businesses and housing efforts. Smaller borrowers are most at risk. By Alex Daniels NALCAB The Puerto Rican restaurant Chef Nieves, in Wimauma, Fla.,

Community Development 280

Community Development Associations Nonprofits 280

Candid

MAY 14, 2025

With a shortage of seven million affordable homes for the lowest-income families , cratering supply is leading to escalating housing costs, dampening economic prospects for people in urban, rural, Tribal, and suburban communities in every state and territory. Ensuring their success is key to guaranteeing that millions of families can thrive.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 66

Nonprofit Administration and Development Construction Urban development Finance 66

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

MAY 15, 2024

Prest Getty Images A commitment by Kataly Foundation and Bank of America is supporting the Inclusiv Impact Deposits Fund to enable $100 million in lending through community-development credit unions.

Community Development 280

Community Development Foundations Nonprofits 280

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 14, 2023

At the same time, many community development nonprofits face challenges in securing the capital needed to carry out their core missions and, importantly, to test new ideas and strategies. There is, however, a way for nonprofits to gain greater access to “flexible” capital and for foundations to generate a financial return.

Community Development 111

Community Development Finance Energy Nonprofit governance and management 111

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Also, the MassMutual Foundation committed $25 million to expand the reach of nonprofit community development financial institutions, and the Moody Foundation gave $25 million for neuroscience research.

Foundations 265

Foundations Universities Community Development Nonprofits 265

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

MAY 31, 2024

The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance is excited to share the commencement of the April CNP Cohort for the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) Professional Track program. This group of dedicated nonprofit leaders have begun their six-month journey, participating in one of only four cohorts offered annually. Learn more here!

Nonprofit Leadership 189

Nonprofit Leadership Leadership Nonprofits Foundations 189

Selfish Giving

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

ThrdPlace is a social platform for local action that brings consumers together with for-profits and non-profits to change the way community development projects get done. . 3P : How has the field of Cause Marketing evolved and where does it stand today?

Non-Profits 224

Non-Profits Marketing Marketing Community Development 224

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Here’s the latest installment in our series on the “Day in the Life” of nonprofit communicators, where we ask you to describe your day in your own words. . Tell us what you do in a typical day as a nonprofit communications pro. Tell us what you do in a typical day as a nonprofit communications pro.

Communication 183

Communication Advertising Production Community Development 183

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Image Credit: itsnnnoa on unsplash.com Nonprofit facilities communicate, and we need to be more conscious, thoughtful, and vocal about what they say about who and what our organizations value. For years, I have directed IFF , a community development financial institution that specializes in nonprofit facilities lending.

Values 122

Values Community Development Psychology Healthcare 122

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

MARCH 9, 2022

After my college internship at a national performing arts nonprofit was complete, I landed my first salaried job at a large financial services holding company that housed more than 80 different brands. If $54 is still a stretch for your budget, I recommend a free nonprofit account with Canva. To learn more about Jessica, click here.

Marketing 157

Marketing Marketing Advertising Production 157