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A Political Roadmap to Social Housing: How Do We Win?

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Roman Kraft on Unsplash It’s becoming increasingly hard to find a housing justice organizer who hasn’t been to Vienna or extolled the virtues of its social housing sector, and wants to do something similar in the United States. What is Social Housing? What’s harder to find is a political strategy to achieve as much.

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US Nonprofit Sector Documents Its Own Powerlessness, but What Will We Do?

NonProfit Quarterly

Since 1973, I have started or led 14 nonprofit enterprises in the arts, community development, and civic engagement sectors. I have been a managing director, a board member, a board president, a consultant to nonprofits, and taught college courses on nonprofit management and policy at several Chicago universities.

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Get to Know Our Public Policy Intern, Adiza Hamda!

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

Welcome Adiza Hamda, our new Public Policy Intern We’re excited to welcome Adiza Hamda our new public policy intern for Tennessee Nonprofit Network! Her long-term goal is to contribute her skills and knowledge towards ameliorating pervasive social challenges and improving the quality of life of the human race.

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From Impact Investing to “Impact-First” Investing—What Is the Field Learning?

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: PeopleImages on iStock What does impact investingthat is, investing with social benefit in minddemand of investors? Many in the field have long held it demands virtually nothing, that an investor can have a social impact without sacrificing a penny of their own.

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A Banker’s Case for Public Banking

NonProfit Quarterly

This has led me to the conclusion that if we want to close the racial wealth gap, we need to get serious about public banking. Public banking could help change these dynamics. Public banking could help change these dynamics. How did I come to adopt this position? My journey began far from the financial world.

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Co-op Federation Seeks to Shift Worker Co-op Movement into a Passing Gear

NonProfit Quarterly

In Chicago, speakers surveyed the growth of the past 20 years while setting forth goals to bring worker co-ops fully into the economic mainstream through movement infrastructure, public policy, and culture building. Increasingly, worker co-ops are making public policy gains.

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22 Statistics About #GivingTuesday Donors Worldwide

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Human and social services – 8%. International development and relief – 6%. Community development – 3%. Research and public policy – 1%. Public media and communications – 0%. Social media – 25%. Faith and spirituality – 8%. LGBTQIA+ – 1%.