Expanding Opportunity in the Capital Markets Through Racial Equity
Why investors need to deploy both grant capital and investment capital to create pathways for equitable opportunity.
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How Foundations Are Using Impact Investing to Advance Racial Equity
In this series, presented in partnership with Mission Investors Exchange, 10 foundation presidents share their organization’s efforts to embed commitments to racial equity into their institutions and impact investing practices.
Hippocratic Oath for a Digital World: Insights From SSIR’s 2019 Data on Purpose Conference
From emphasizing the importance of a data culture to exhorting people to "move thoughtfully and improve things," nonprofit leaders, funders, scholars, and technologists at SSIR's 2019 Data on Purpose Conference provided deep insights into surviving and thriving in an increasingly digital world.
Can Machine Learning Double Your Social Impact?
A look at what it takes to successfully deploy machine learning tools for social good and the most exciting opportunities ahead.
Smartphone Samaritans
The digital app GoodSAM transforms emergency medical care through its crowdsourcing network of first responders.
The Fight to End Cash Bail
The Bail Project began as a simple idea by Bronx public defenders to set up a fund to protect their clients from the ravages of an unfair system. Now their advocacy is part of a vanguard to overhaul US criminal justice.
The Crisis of Youth Mental Health
Children and adolescents confront a mental health treatment gap in which many who need help do not get it. Philanthropy can help fill this gap by investing in new models of delivering care.
Communities Need Neighborhood Trusts
The current approach to community revitalization has helped arrest and even reverse the degradation of American neighborhoods. But it cannot solve the problem without local ownership and control of assets and the decommodification of property.
Equitable Big Bets for Marginalized Communities
For real systems change, philanthropy must make greater investments in organizations led by the communities most affected by injustice.
The Paradox of Socially Responsible Investing
Funds that invest in social goals inevitably confront tensions with the goal of making money.