The Benefit Fund
The next step in impact investing is the Delaware statutory public benefit limited partnership, which provides clarity of definition, assuages fears of greenwashing, and harmonizes manager incentives with public good.
Solutions - Articles
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How We Got Here
Nearly two decades after our founding, the Chorus Foundation and our allies take stock on what we have learned about philanthropy, power, and creating a better world.
Design Thinking Misses the Mark
Design thinking has failed to deliver on its promise to solve the world’s thorniest social challenges. Adopting a critical design stance can help designers serve communities, rather than their own methodology.
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We Need a Strategy for Spending Down
Spending down is only a tactic. To turn it into something more strategic, we will need to consider a host of questions.
The Lobbying for Good Movement
Too many nonprofits and foundations reject lobbying as dubious. But a new movement is reclaiming this practice as essential for promoting social change.
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How to Use Integrated Capital to Shift Power to the Front Lines
The Kataly Foundation invests in communities in ways that ensure that more value stays in the community.
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Supporting Visions of New Economic Power
Visionary solidarity economy projects are putting down roots in communities across the United States. But philanthropy will be needed for these seeds to bear fruit.
Digital Sustainability for a Better Future
Digital technologies, when used in the right way, can benefit organizational performance, improve people’s lives, and protect the planet.
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Building Political Power When Everything Is at Stake
Philanthropy needs more movement funders who stand on the side of racial and economic justice and against right-wing authoritarianism.
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Building Grassroots Political Power
Our work organizing the Laotian community in Richmond, California, is a case study in power building.