NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 14, 2023

While many foundations screen their endowment investments based on environmental, social, and governance factors, only a few optimize their investment strategies for mission impact. From inception, the pool was centered on community development financing activities and emphasized racial, gender, and economic equity.

Community Development 111

Community Development Finance Energy Nonprofit governance and management 111

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 25, 2025

Todays model for funding nonprofits and social enterprises is fundamentally broken. This crisis has laid bare what nonprofit leaders have known for years: Todays model for funding nonprofits and social enterprises is fundamentally broken.

Social Enterprise 105

Social Enterprise Social Enterprise Nonprofit Administration and Development Finance 105

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 3, 2025

The capital markets that can invest in social enterprise are chaotic and low-impact. So how can we incentivize the creation and growth of mutualist social enterprise? Yet the future of mutualist organizations which today includes cooperatives, faith groups, credit unions, nonprofits, unionsis under threat.

Nonprofit governance and management 125

Nonprofit governance and management Governance Insurance Social Enterprise 125

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Image credit: Ian Nicole Reambonanza on Unsplash This is the fourth article in NPQ ’s series titled Building Power, Fighting Displacement: Stories from Asian Pacific America, coproduced with the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development ( National CAPACD ). How does a refugee community organize itself?

Race and Ethnicity 128

Race and Ethnicity Community Development Participation and motivation Culture 128

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 122

Marketing Marketing Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management 122

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 29, 2023

What if the tens of thousands of churches currently projected to close in the next few years put their assets into trusts deeply aligned with community development, versus stranding those assets and real estate as they shutter?

Nonprofit governance and management 119

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Community Development 119

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 1, 2023

million in renovations to support a community-developed plan to reopen this legacy site as a collectively owned community asset. BAMBD CDC is an arts-based organization invested in community development writ large. These spaces are now closed, and gentrification is encroaching upon the buildings that housed them.

Culture 128

Culture Retail Community Development Environmental 128