Impact Investing
Keeping it Real
Simon's book warns against short-sighted impact investing that brings more benefit to investors than to the communities it supposedly supports.
Review
Tag: Social Justice
Human Rights
Desegregating the Home-Sharing Economy
A collaboration between the NAACP and Airbnb is one of several new efforts to reduce racial discrimination on home-sharing platforms.
Social Services
Embracing an Equity Lens in the Organization and Community
How a social service organization defined equity and made it a core of its programs for low-income families in the Northern Kentucky/Greater Cincinnati, Ohio region.
Health
Native Wisdom Is Revolutionizing Health Care
Southcentral Foundation has vastly improved Alaska Native welfare while saving on costs by using traditional healing practices.
Review
Social Services
Siphoning Off the Safety Net
How social services agencies are squeezing revenue from the poor and vulnerable people they’re meant to serve.
Podcast
Design Thinking
Opportunities for a Fresh Start on Race
Trabian Shorters of BMe Community explains why, if you really want to make a positive impact, it's important to focus on the positive assets rather than the deficiencies of the people you want to serve.
Technology & Design
What Net Neutrality Says About Neoliberalism
Some values are more important than giving more people access to Wikipedia for free.
Impact Investing
Managing vs. Measuring Impact Investment
How a shift in mindset from impact measurement to impact management can lead to stronger social outcomes: a case study of Huntington Capital Fund III.
Global Issues
The Chief Engine of Change: Conversation
A look at how Freedom to Marry used communications to make the “impossible” ... “inevitable”