The Nonprofit Village was founded to develop, nurture, and sustain the organizational and collaborative capacity of mid-size, small, and very small nonprofits by providing them with affordable, attractive office space accompanied by shared supportive services. Our vision is to build an effective cooperative of community-based nonprofit organizations in Montgomery County.

The Nonprofit Village emerged through several incarnations, benefitting from the enthusiastic encouragement of many diverse Montgomery County nonprofits. More than four years ago, five executive directors of community-based organizations began meeting on a regular basis to collectively address and solve the challenges they faced, the most common of those being the scarcity of affordable, accessible, professional office space. The executive directors began looking for shared space, and in the process, discovered other multi-tenant nonprofit facilities outside Montgomery County, along with the Nonprofit Centers Network that supports them.

One of the first things this original group realized is that to truly sit at the table with property owners, developers, and funders, they needed an organizational infrastructure to support the development and management of a facility. Consequently, the Nonprofit Village incorporated, recruited a board of directors, and hired a project manager.

Why the Nonprofit Village?