Tag: United States

Giving That Supports Community-Focused Climate Solutions

Featuring Claire McGuinness, Maya Batres, Shawn Jensen & Barbara Wheeler-Bride

How have nonprofits adapted their strategies to help mitigate climate change? How can donors best support climate solutions? Leaders from the One Acre Fund and The Nature Conservancy discuss how climate change is shaping their work and ways philanthropy can step in with catalytic funding. A sponsored podcast developed with the support of DAFgiving360

Education

Reimagining Nursing Education

By Robert Atkins & Sarah Szanton

The predominant model for educating nurses prepares them for hospital settings. By adopting a competency-based education model rooted in community care, nursing programs can better equip their students to address the diverse health-care needs and environments of the 21st century.

Cities

Growing Community Together

By Seth D. Kaplan

To succeed, place-based neighborhood transformation must have deep roots in the community that support innovative ways to branch to outside resources. Bonton Farms offers a model of such work.

Economic Development

A New Blueprint for Financing Community Development

By David Fukuzawa, Nancy O. Andrews & Rebecca Steinitz 1

The traditional model of community development finance is limited by market conservatism and a focus on scale, rather than local control. We need a new paradigm that prioritizes impact over scale, emphasizes flexible and creative financing strategies, and empowers community voice. | Open access to this article is made possible by The Center for Community Investment, a sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.