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.
Tag: United States
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.
Cities
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.
Impact Investing
The Paradox of Socially Responsible Investing
Funds that invest in social goals inevitably confront tensions with the goal of making money.
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Introduction to Unleashing Philanthropy’s Big Bets for Social Change
This supplement brings together the latest thinking about how big-bet philanthropy is changing the ways that the nonprofit sector is working to address major social problems.