NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

For years, I have directed IFF , a community development financial institution that specializes in nonprofit facilities lending. A Hierarchy of Nonprofit Facilities’ Needs After 30 years in community development, I have come to think of nonprofit facilities as existing on a continuum of need.

Values 112

Values Community Development Psychology Healthcare 112

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Developing Healthy Individuals “Positive psychology is the scientific study of what makes individuals and communities thrive.”— International Positive Psychology Association When focusing on a healthy context, there is a risk of falling into naïve holism, an ineffective mindset commonly seen in system perspectives.

Philanthropy 139

Philanthropy Homelessness Psychology Health 139

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

At LIFE, we provide such help through microlending and small business lending, both of which offer different ways of accessing capital, which helps many of the people we work with become business owners and develop businesses that sustain families and community. CDFIs across the nation offer similar financial services.

Poverty 92

Poverty Children Culture Food 92

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 16, 2024

This is basic psychology. SD: At NPQ , we have long been interested in governance—how community groups make democratic decisions—and management, how you implement them. Could you talk more about what it means to approach community development as a producer and how that might lead you to approach the work differently?

Governance 123

Governance Culture Construction Community Development 123

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

After the War on Poverty came Urban Renewal, Model Cities, the development of CDCs (Community Development Corporations) and LISC (Local Initiatives Support Corporation), an intermediary launched by the Ford Foundation to finance CDCs.

Public and Social Policy 116

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Governance 116