Nonprofits & NGOs
What Nonprofit Leaders Wish More People Knew
Four takeaways from a recent nonprofit survey, and how the broader social sector should respond.
Tag: United States
Foundations
Equity for Native American Communities: Using Mission Investments Alongside Grants
How building relationships with Native communities can lead to economic and culturally grounded social impact for the long term.
Foundations
Aligning Purpose and Investments: Why Are You Stuck?
The case for racial equity is clear, and hundreds of resources are available to help foundations get started. So why does organizational change continue to move slowly?
Impact Investing
Impact Investing for Educational Progress
Investing in innovative entrepreneurs can make high-quality education and training more widely available, especially among poorly served racial and ethnic groups.
Impact Investing
Five Practices for Developing and Staying Accountable to Racial Equity Goals
How an intention to address racial equity can influence institutional impact investing strategy.
Foundations
Using All Our Tools to Advance Equity in the South and Beyond
Repairing the damage done by centuries of systemic racism demands an “all-of-the-above” approach.
Foundations
Impact Investing and Racial Equity: Foundations Leading the Way
Foundations are deploying a wide range of impact investing strategies to advance racial equity in the United States.
Foundations
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.
Human Rights
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.
Business
The Cost of Financial Precarity
Anxiety about debt and financial stability can severely reduce the productivity and health of employees, which can hurt a company’s bottom line. Businesses, government, and philanthropic organizations should embrace the case for improving the financial well-being of workers.