Community First resident Tim Shea outside his home. Neighbor Christina Hite’s home is in background. Credit: Amy Costello Amy Costello: Welcome to Tiny Spark, a podcast of the Nonprofit Quarterly. We focus on what is required to build a more just society—in matters of race, health, the environment, and the economy. I’m Amy Costello.
Nicolas Nova / Soft Infrastructure interruption This article is the third in our series—Community Development: National Leaders’ Visions—that NPQ, in partnership with the CEO Circle, an informal network of BIPOC community economic development leaders, is publishing in the coming weeks. The series focuses on identifying what is required to address key transformational challenges and to
I first read about the Historic Clayborn Temple in history books. The church served as the home base for Memphis sanitation workers organizing and striking against unsafe and inhumane working conditions faced by Black garbage collectors. This strike took place during the height of the Civil Rights Movement in 1968 and produced the powerful “I
End-of-year fundraising season is upon us, and if you’re like most fundraisers out there, you’re probably frantically trying to write killer appeals. I bet you’re feeling the pressure too—and for good reason. With many nonprofits raising as much as half of their annual budget in December alone, there’s a lot riding on your success. Hours
This post is part of a series on limiting beliefs. Read the previous posts on believing that your story doesn’t matter, thinking that success is selfish, being in a victim mindset, and living in fear. One of the biggest things that holds people back is the thought that they don’t have enough time—to take the
