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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Blog
June 16, 2022
A Conversation with Sandra Phoenix and Tina Rollins about HBCU Library Alliance
As technology continues to rapidly evolve, digital humanities organizations have been at the forefront of innovation in humanities They use...
Story
April 19, 2022
Mount Olives Community Center
A pillar of strength in Boston’s Haitian community
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...
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...
Blog
September 29, 2021
What we can do with $450,000
It costs $450,000 per year to keep one woman jailed in New York City That startling statistic came up in a gathering of human services organizations...
Projects & Reports
June 18, 2021
Advancing Resilience and Community Health
Lessons Learned from Partnerships Between Networks of Community-Based Organizations and Healthcare Organizations The Advancing Resilience and...
Blog
June 10, 2021
A Community-First Nonprofit Responds to COVID: “We’re a speed boat, not a steam ship”
A Conversation with Tree House Books Tree House Books has a vision: that every child in Philadelphia has access to books, and an opportunity to...
Blog
June 8, 2021
A Community Nonprofit Meets Urgent Needs and Plans for West Philadelphia’s Future
A conversation with Belmont Alliance Civic Association CDC Belmont Alliance Civic Association, CDC, (BACA, CDC) is a 30-year-old nonprofit based in...