NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In the series, urban and rural grassroots leaders from across the United States share how their communities are developing and implementing strategies—grounded in local places, cultures, and histories—to shift power and achieve systemic change. I also come from a family of grocery workers and managers.

Food 100

Food Public and Nonprofit Management Medical Community Development 100

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

They want the freedom to move how they want to move, to manage schedules how they want to manage them, and to show up for the life they want, not some version of life imagined by a society that excludes and negates their contributions and even their humanity. Is there an entertainment district on MLK Drive?”

Insurance 131

Insurance Universities Finance Foundations 131

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 16, 2023

Image credit: Corey Agopian on unsplash.com This article concludes NPQ’s series Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. Those who’ve managed to scratch out a way to stay are at risk every day of being erased. Boost cultural economic development with commercial district revitalization strategies.

Community Development 95

Community Development Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Cultural Diversity 95

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 92

Community Development Finance Energy Nonprofit governance and management 92

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2023

As Eliya Imtiaz, former managing editor of the “Michigan in Color” section of the Michigan Daily , put it last year, “Similar to most ideals in this country, the current notion of DEI heightens the façade that everything occurs on an individual level.” Artists are essential to any vision that calls the future into question.

Philanthropy 99

Philanthropy Culture Agriculture Community Development 99

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

The complex is modest, but it houses an estimated 27 primarily immigrant-led small businesses and nonprofits. What makes the strip mall unique is its community ownership. Each community also has its own specific reasons for seeking community ownership. Paul, New Orleans, Anchorage, and Los Angeles.

Public and Nonprofit Management 101

Public and Nonprofit Management Participation and motivation Nonprofit governance and management Poverty 101

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 10, 2023

The conference brings together hundreds of community activists, government officials, and bank community development officers. It’s an odd mix, but one that NCRC has managed for the past 33 years. This year’s event was easily the group’s largest since before the COVID-19 pandemic. billion, which works out to only 4.9

Finance 109

Finance Law Governance Entrepreneurship 109

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Image credit: Christian Ouellet on istock.com Financing challenges often stymie nonprofits. This reality became starkly evident in the journey of the Center for Habitat Reconstruction (CRH) seeking supplemental funding to keep a large public contract it had won. Yet even after having been awarded an $11.2

Finance 111

Finance Non-Profits Collaborations Public and Nonprofit Management 111

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Participating students learn about controlled environment agricultural management and the underlying technologies—eg, sensors, data collection, and data analytics—and the operations and maintenance of an indoor hydroponic farm. The figure below describes the innovative hub and its components.

Food 141

Food Agriculture Poverty Public and Social Policy 141

Getting Attention

AUGUST 3, 2012

Please post your nonprofit marketing position here for full-time or part-time staff, consulting or internship opportunities. 1) Assistant Director of Communications. 2) Awareness and Community Relations Manager. 3) Communications Coordinator , The Immunization Partnership (Houston, TX). Website Manager.

Public and Nonprofit Management 61

Public and Nonprofit Management Food Energy Associations 61

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 25, 2023

Many in the nonprofit sector look at their income statements (also known as the “profit and loss” report), but unless you’re a chief financial officer or perform a similar role, you may spend far less time looking at your organization’s overall financial position. These assets help nonprofits deliver on their missions by generating income.

Public and Social Policy 115

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Non-Profits 115

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Image credit: Brandon on Unsplash The murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police three and a half years ago ignited a months-long period of mass social mobilization and intense public engagement. After all, financial institutions that understand their clients’ backgrounds can more effectively respond to their needs.

Finance 73

Finance Culture Foundations Public and Social Policy 73

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The home you can afford also determines the neighborhood you can live in—a neighborhood with access to public transportation that can connect you with jobs and opportunities, grocery stores with nutritious foods, and safe spaces to exercise or one filled with pollutants, high-traffic roads, and crime, all of which have an impact on health.

Health 101

Health Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Philanthropy 101

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2023

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.

Civil Society 95

Civil Society Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Social Policy Leadership 95

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 109

Manufacturing Finance Nonprofit governance and management Law 109

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

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. It was a real estate development company. It was a nonprofit.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 109

Nonprofit Administration and Development Finance Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 109

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 111

Marketing Marketing Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management 111

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 9, 2023

Image credit: Kenny Eliason on unsplash.com This is the fifth article in NPQ ’s series titled Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. This is housing that was part of the public housing system that since 2014 has been directly managed by MEDA. The community response is multifaceted.

Culture 90

Culture Cultural Diversity Community Development Public and Nonprofit Management 90

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2023

How can nonprofits help immigrants build community wealth? Nonprofit and public sector programs to promote savings are common. One of the more common forms is the matched savings account, often referred to as the individual development account, or IDA. Image Credit: Armand Khoury on unsplash.com.

Finance 105

Finance Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management Construction 105

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The US Water Alliance —a national nonprofit that aligns various stakeholders to solve this current water crisis—is tackling this issue head on. Addressing contamination that threatens our water supplies and escalates that need for poor communities to bear the burdens and the costs are of significant concern,” said Hara.

Public and Social Policy 134

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Collaborations Universities 134

Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

But if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang beyond the webinars, we are a provider of donor management software. So I always like to take a step back and say, “Okay, before we start to talk about writing, and management, and all of these other things, I think it’s really important to think about how do we get here?

Nonprofit governance and management 114

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development Foundations 114

Care2

APRIL 22, 2013

Amy and I will provide concrete advice from our new book Social Change Anytime Everywhere on what you need to be doing to build and mobilize your communities through multifaceted campaigns and by integrating social media into your online communications and outreach. How to manage an Online Crisis and avoid alienating your community.

Non-Profits 70

Non-Profits Public and Nonprofit Management Recruitment Technology 70

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

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.

Public and Social Policy 126

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 126

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In the nonprofit sector, it requires transcending the standard hierarchical funder-nonprofit dynamics and replacing them with norms of power sharing and reciprocity. Unlike many funding opportunities, qualifying projects did not need to have nonprofit tax status or be fiscally sponsored by a nonprofit.

Nonprofit governance and management 112

Nonprofit governance and management Food Public and Nonprofit Management Environmental 112

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

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. And we were relying on nonprofits that at the same time were losing their balance sheets. I kept thinking, yes!

Public and Social Policy 100

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance Public and Nonprofit Management 100

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

Image credit: Yannick Lowery / www.severepaper.com Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s fall 2023 issue, “How Do We Create Home in the Future? 2 It has been edited for publication here. 2 It has been edited for publication here. Two things changed how wealth was managed. The year is 2053.

Public and Social Policy 122

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Taxation 122

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Of the food grown in the delta and the overall $6 billion in food that is grown in Mississippi, 90 percent is exported, as a 2014 report from the nonprofit, Crossroads Resource Center , documents. TAGI grows and sells fruit and vegetables while centering community engagement. They come with their own challenges.

Food 119

Food Agriculture Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 119

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

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.”

Nonprofit Administration and Development 94

Nonprofit Administration and Development Universities Philanthropy Education 94

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 12, 2023

This question was front of mind when, in February 2020, right before the COVID lockdown began, the Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative , co-hosted an “innovation encuentro.” Notably absent is a focus on public K-12 education, which educates nearly 50 million Americans a year. Ditto for coding and software development.

Curriculum and Teaching 102

Curriculum and Teaching Education Education Public and Nonprofit Management 102

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The diffusion of new and innovative models of community-owned commercial real estate is enhancing resident power and self-determination. The strongest co-ops offered or required trainings and courses in cooperative economics and management. Enabling environments offer co-ops direct assistance and support.

Finance 102

Finance Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Education 102

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 26, 2023

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.” At the height of the pandemic, I was swept up in a titanic battle being waged over the right to a city. 1 That city was New Haven, Connecticut.

Education 94

Education Education Universities Public and Nonprofit Management 94

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

“RULER OF THE EARTH” BY YUET-LAM TSANG Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” How do social movements come to make the language of economic systems change their own? Nonprofits often play quasi-governmental roles.

Public and Social Policy 84

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 84

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

Image Credit: cottonbro studio on pexels.com It’s not often that a body of work comes along that makes us ask big questions about the nonprofit sector. Claire Dunning’s new book, Nonprofit Neighborhoods , is one. In it, she not only traces the development of the nonprofit sector.

Public and Social Policy 117

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Governance 117

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

Public policy wasn’t really a part of our culture. Why Prioritize Public Policy and Advocacy? 6 Engaging in public policy advocacy is not without its dangers. Public policy and advocacy work, for most movement organizations, can feel like a luxury. Until it was.

Public Policy 84

Public Policy Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 84

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2023

All Moderated by Steve Dubb of the Nonprofit Quarterly. Below you’ll find the graphic recording, audio, video, and transcript from “The Imaginal Cells of the Solidarity Economy: Community Ownership” presented by the U.S. Steve Dubb: [00:02:31] Welcome to Imagining Cells of the Solidarity Economy: Community Ownership.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Food Nonprofit governance and management 98