Nonprofits

A poem about “caretakers and waymakers,” which emerged from interviews with 13 frontline community workers in Memphis.

A temporary window of flexible funds in the early 2020s allowed many queer- and trans-led organizations to achieve long-held dreams of owning their own buildings and housing their members.

While affordable housing with some office space for nonprofits is relatively common, in Redmond, Washington, a group of human services organizations went the other way: they rebuilt their collective office space and added housing.

The results benefit residents, neighbors, and the organizations themselves.

Since the spring, the nonprofit’s funding has been delivered monthly instead of in full, leaving member organizations operating paycheck-to-paycheck and putting projects on hold.

Keeping our heads down and our language inoffensive is not the right response to the times we’re in. Solidarity and courage is.

Though it hasn’t taken any action yet, DOGE has officially assigned a team to NeighborWorks America. The congressionally chartered nonprofit provides resources and training to a network of hundreds of local organizations that develop affordable housing and support homeowners and communities.

Despite Enterprise Community Partners’ majority voting stake in Bellwether Enterprise, the nonprofit lender long insisted it couldn’t address its subsidiary commercial mortgage lender’s questionable lending for mobile home park purchases.

The president’s executive orders threaten the funding of a wide range of housing programs in the U.S. Over a dozen federal grantees told us how they’ve been affected, and how they’re planning for an uncertain future.

Many housing organizations are finding that educational programs are a logical—and valuable—addition to their offerings.

Four years after the pandemic first wrought havoc on the American economy, nonprofit housers are being overwhelmed by rental arrears. Can they balance their social mission against their operational realities?

San Francisco’s CounterPulse shows how arts organizations can take advantage of a lease-to-own model.