Candid

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Examples of PRIs include investments in community development financial institutions, which make loans to small businesses owned by members of economically disadvantaged groups in underinvested communities. PRIs and MRIs are about investing in under-served businesses or aligning investments with values—within the current system.

Public and Nonprofit Management 98

Public and Nonprofit Management Environmental Foundations Philanthropy 98

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 26, 2023

Image Credit: Bruno Guerrero on unsplash.com This is the third article in NPQ ’s series titled Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. Given the demographics, it is likely that displacement effects associated with the Purple Line will be felt most intensely by the immigrant, Latinx, and Black communities.

Construction 96

Construction Community Development Governance Environmental 96

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 17, 2024

Other structural barriers lower the home’s value from the start—limiting opportunities to grow generational wealth. A Community Finance Solution While barriers to homeownership persist for households of color, these barriers are possible to overcome. The causes of the racial homeownership gap are multifaceted.

Finance 124

Finance Production Insurance Values 124

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 29, 2023

By Lisa Nutter & Tim Freudlich The simple physics equation, momentum = mass x velocity, tells us that momentum is a value we can control. What if corporations adopted commitments to maximize value for workers and communities, in addition to generating wealth for shareholders?

Nonprofit governance and management 108

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Community Development 108

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Image credit: AndreyPopov on istock.com How can frontline communities access public funding for climate solutions? But some needed elements are clear: these include expertise; values-aligned capacity-building partners; relationships that are built on trust, accountability, and transparency; and flexible funding.

Governance 80

Governance Community Development Collaborations Environmental 80

The Volunteer Hub

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

According to Nonprofit Source, 90% of company executives indicated that partnering with a reputable nonprofit organization enhanced their brand and 89% believe partnering leverages their ability to improve the community. Developing partnerships presents a win-win-win scenario for your nonprofit, the community, and your corporate partner.

Volunteerism 86

Volunteerism Volunteerism Non-Profits Public and Nonprofit Management 86

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 21, 2022

At a recent professional dinner, I struck up a fascinating conversation with a woman who has spent her legal career working in civil rights, housing, and community development. Such phenomena are root causes of many challenges facing urban communities of color today. Image Credit: Mustapha Saadouni on unsplash.com.

Finance 101

Finance Community Development Non-Profits Nonprofit governance and management 101

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 110

Culture Retail Community Development Collaborations 110

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

While these objectives differ, there is a clear overlap of priorities and opportunities to advance shared equitable community development goals. Different yet complementary objectives : Land banks focus on addressing large inventories of vacant and abandoned properties, while CLTs focus on creating and preserving affordability.

Public and Social Policy 108

Public and Social Policy Governance Community Development Agriculture 108

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2023

We believe that funders must lend artists an ear and commit to act on more of what they hear from artists and arts workers who have people-first values at their moral core. Artists are essential to any vision that calls the future into question.

Philanthropy 94

Philanthropy Culture Agriculture Community Development 94

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JANUARY 13, 2023

I served as the Program Director for community development and microenterprise development at MIFA. For seven years, I served as the Senior Program Officer for a financial intermediary providing grant making, technical assistance, and training for community development corporations, and grassroots organizations.

Nonprofit governance and management 90

Nonprofit governance and management Leadership Community Development Organizational Change 90

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2024

CRH’s salvation eventually came in the form of a collaborative approach, pivoting toward a combination of emergency funding provided by a small family foundation; a nonprofit, non-extractive loan fund; a third-party investment firm; and a coalition of Latinx community development financial institutions (CDFIs).

Finance 106

Finance Non-Profits Collaborations Public and Nonprofit Management 106

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 12, 2023

Image Credit: Abe Camacho on unsplash.com This article introduces a new NPQ series, Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. These are home values, rent prices, median household income, percentage of residents who are college educated, and percentage of residents who are White.

Culture 97

Culture Construction Community Development Education 97

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Amartya Sen suggested we should measure social context based on its ability to give individuals and communities the freedom and capability to pursue the things they value in life. Like Nussbaum’s framework for healthy context, researchers have developed comprehensive approaches applicable to individuals.

Philanthropy 127

Philanthropy Homelessness Psychology Health 127

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

Image Credit: Vyacheslav Dumchev on istock This is the second article in NPQ ’s series titled Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. In Long Beach, CA, Latinx renters face increasing threats of gentrification and displacement. “The

Law 98

Law Cultural Diversity Community Development Children 98

Candid

JUNE 9, 2021

Little did I know then that this work would form lasting bonds, and that years later I’d find myself still sharing space at conferences, on Zoom, in bylines, and most recently in the creation of the Participatory Grantmaking Community. .

Philanthropy 119

Philanthropy Community Development Foundations Collaborations 119

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 13, 2023

The Value of Faith Institutions Several church leaders—both from Jackson and beyond—spoke at a plenary session about the challenges and opportunities facing faith institutions. Stephanie Swepson-Twitty of Eagle Market Streets Development Corp. Jackson is not for the faint of heart.

Finance 91

Finance Homelessness Healthcare Foundations 91

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

Con Edison then ascribes the value of that energy, which is what gets discounted. That ascribed value will be at least 15 percent less than a standard Con Edison electricity bill. As a subscriber, a household or business owns a small portion of the solar array. All the energy produced by the array will be sent to the Con Edison grid.

Energy 127

Energy Environmental Finance Governance 127

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

While the National Center for Employee Ownership defines employee ownership as “any arrangement in which a company’s employees own shares in their company or the right to the value of shares in their company,” in a worker cooperative, ownership means not just sharing profits, but having a direct voice and vote in the workplace.

Public and Social Policy 105

Public and Social Policy Finance Governance Culture 105

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 21, 2023

By Vurayayi Pugeni , Caroline Pugeni & Dan Maxson International community development has changed significantly over its history, shifting from primarily responding to disaster events to improving communities using a sectoral approach to issues like health, agriculture, and water and sanitation.

Culture 52

Culture Agriculture Values Health 52

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Instead, most DEI efforts are led by human resource professionals with limited understanding of communities like Camden. This involves work in the following four areas: Transforming local food systems demands moving from a dependent charitable food pantry model to a sustainable local food system.

Food 136

Food Agriculture Poverty Public and Social Policy 136

Pam Moore

APRIL 1, 2019

I provide you some solid examples, recommendations and supporting free tools for how you can activate your audience with content, value and community building. This value packed podcast episode will help you activate your audience and better tap into the power of social media and online marketing this week – I promise!

Activism 97

Activism Values Marketing Marketing 97

Pam Moore

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

What is your core value proposition? What unique value do you offer your ideal customer that your competition does not? What will be the business value and benefit of you gaining the needed engagement on Facebook to win an honored news feed placement in the new Facebook algorithm? Who are you? What are you about?

Marketing 167

Marketing Marketing Values Advertising 167

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In 2018, we developed the Advancing Health Equity Through Housing (HEH) funding opportunity and supported 31 organizations working at the intersection of housing and health equity in cities across the United States. Creating a Learning Community.

Health 101

Health Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Philanthropy 101

Pam Moore

OCTOBER 3, 2016

It is clear social media marketing is delivering real and measurable business value for companies large and small today. They are often thrown to the wild pack of tweeting craziness as their management teams and leadership know less than they do in understanding how to drive business value using these new social tools and methodologies.

Marketing 167

Marketing Marketing Management Foundations 167

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Community development financial institutions (CDFIs) have a mission to counter redlining and support lending in low-income and BIPOC communities. Economic development spoke to the need to assess whether projects are likely to deliver on their job generation promises. Two years ago, the Washington Post analyzed some $49.5

Finance 127

Finance Leadership Associations Foundations 127

Pam Moore

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

They want value. Commitment to provide the highest value possible to all audience members, customers, partners and the larger ecosystem. Community development strategy and plan inclusive of social listening and engagement. Instead consumers and business decision makers today are eager for connection.

Governance 60

Governance Education Education Values 60

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Of the 20 lenders, 10 are community development financial institutions (CDFIs), five are banks, three are credit unions, and two are tribal-affiliated institutions. With collateral, the borrower will have something of value that the lender can use to sell for cash to help repay the loan if necessary.

Insurance 106

Insurance Production Foundations Community Development 106

Pam Moore

JULY 5, 2017

Do you know… What value Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and other social networks are providing to your bottom line? How to know the value of traffic from social networks such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. What content is converting to real business? What content is producing the most leads?

Marketing 167

Marketing Marketing Values Community Development 167

Pam Moore

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Although some very loud voices in the industry the past few years have been touting the “get out your firehose and spray the world with your spam” mentality, the truth is quality content that delivers value, engages your audience in a meaningful way to take action is what will win.

Advertising 164

Advertising Marketing Marketing Values 164

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 22, 2023

Globally, the ecological value of mangrove forests is becoming more recognized, but solutions like nurseries and replanting still struggle to gain momentum. At last year’s COP27, the UN established the Mangrove Breakthrough , which aims to catalyze financial support for mangrove restoration solutions projects.

Education 96

Education Education Foundations Environmental 96

Pam Moore

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Know what you want to get out of the community as well as what members want to achieve. When it comes to offering value to the community, don't hold back. A community of value is a community set to grow and succeed. Be patient and acknowledge where in life cycle of community member growth the person is.

Marketing 60

Marketing Marketing Values Governance 60

Pam Moore

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Know what you want to get out of the community as well as what members want to achieve. When it comes to offering value to the community, don't hold back. A community of value is a community set to grow and succeed. Be patient and acknowledge where in life cycle of community member growth the person is.

Marketing 60

Marketing Marketing Values Governance 60

Pam Moore

OCTOBER 9, 2017

It requires having a solid brand architecture and message foundation as well as knowing your audience and how you can serve them real value. Brand storytelling requires both art and science. Take a listen to episode 161 of the Social Zoom Factor podcast to learn 10 key foundational elements to successful brand storytelling.

Foundations 166

Foundations Marketing Marketing Communication 166

Pam Moore

JUNE 2, 2017

Or maybe you have a Facebook business Group but it's not delivering any value for your business. Have you ever thought about how you can tap into the power of Facebook Groups to grow your business? People don't just buy things, they join things. As humans we want to be part of something bigger than we can be all by ourselves.

Advertising 167

Advertising Production Foundations Marketing 167

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

With an emphasis on community building, it has provided hundreds of families with affordable produce. This organizing wave taught Louisville food activists the value of persistent, deep organization and informed co-op organizing as people began to gather at kitchen tables, public libraries, and churches in 2015. Notes See also L.

Food 105

Food Construction Public and Social Policy Governance 105

Pam Moore

APRIL 1, 2019

I provide you some solid examples, recommendations and supporting free tools for how you can activate your audience with content, value and community building. This value packed podcast episode will help you activate your audience and better tap into the power of social media and online marketing this week – I promise!

Activism 60

Activism Values Marketing Marketing 60