Projects & Reports
June 12, 2026
Beyond the Twelve-month Grant
Three years of flexible funding and self-directed support helped 20 Colorado nonprofits strengthen their organizations and the communities they serve
Story
June 2, 2026
Matching Financial Data to Mission
NFF helps The Colorado Health Foundation implement more inclusive grantmaking practices
Blog
June 2, 2026
Inside NFF’s NMTC Program
Onika Lewis, Vice President, New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC), shares how NFF approaches financing through a community-centered lens This conversation...
Blog
June 2, 2026
What Is a Learning Organization?
Jina Paik, Vice President, Learning & Impact, digs into NFF’s history to explain how a focus on learning helps us better serve our clients and...
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Story
April 18, 2022
LifeArk
Could modular, plastic homes help address Southern California's housing and homelessness crisis
Blog
March 2, 2022
A Conversation with Samip Mallick of the South Asian American Digital Archive
As technology continues to rapidly evolve, digital humanities organizations have been at the forefront of innovation in humanities They use...
Blog
March 1, 2022
Our Strategic Innovation Fund: How Unrestricted Funding Opened Up New Ways of Working with Community-Centered Nonprofits
In 2020, MacKenzie Scott and the Ford Foundation provided substantial unrestricted grants to NFF – grants that seeded our Strategic Innovation...
Blog
February 23, 2022
A Conversation with Mills Kelly of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
As technology continues to rapidly evolve, digital humanities organizations have been at the forefront of innovation in the humanities They use...
Blog
February 16, 2022
A Conversation with Kathleen Fitzpatrick of Humanities Commons
As technology continues to rapidly evolve, digital humanities organizations have been at the forefront of innovation in the humanities They use...
Blog
February 8, 2022
A Conversation with Zachary Kaplan of Rhizome
As technology continues to rapidly evolve, digital humanities organizations have been at the forefront of innovation in the humanities They use...
Story
February 7, 2022
Why Not Prosper
Rev Michelle’s vision for a path beyond prison
Commentary
January 13, 2022
Denver Nonprofits Get an Interest-Free Boost
Originally published in Next City , January 12, 2022 No-interest loans can help nonprofits stabilize, explore new revenue sources, and become more...
Blog
December 16, 2021
BMe, Rising Together: A “Fam” of Black Nonprofit Leaders
It should come as no surprise that the organization founded by Trabian Shorters – who coined the term Asset-Framing to describe people by their...
December 8, 2021
2022 Survey Equity Module
Statement of Purpose
Story
November 30, 2021
Dominican Women’s Development Center
“Thirty dollars and a dream”
Commentary
October 27, 2021
How to Fund Place-Based Partnerships, if We Want Them to Work
Originally published in Nonprofit Quarterly , October 27, 2021 During the early days of COVID in March 2020, members of Rocky Mountain Partnership, a...