Capital for Justice: Spurring On Impact Investing for Racial Equity
How one foundation is building on a 50-year history of impact investing to unlock more capital and more justice toward greater equity, progress, and prosperity.
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Investors Worried About Wealth Inequality Should Focus on Fund Manager Compensation
The compensation structures in the impact and ESG investing industries may be exacerbating the very problems that ethically minded financial professionals are trying to solve.
Diversity and Inclusion: Turning Shared Value into Shared Success
A look at how one financial services organization is using an integrated impact investing approach to support diversity and economic inclusion.
Creating Opportunity for Communities of Color Through Entrepreneurship
Supporting and strengthening small business owners can help increase economic opportunity in communities of color, building family and community wealth.
Building an Inclusive Economy by Supporting Entrepreneurs of Color
The US economy must change so that all Americans can shape its direction and benefit from its growth. Foundations can help lead the way through investment.
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Innovative Solutions for the Housing Crisis
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The Profit in Nonprofit
Why Kiva chose to be a 501(c)(3), what this tax status buys the organization, and how being a nonprofit poses challenges.
Beyond the Poverty Line
A new approach to measuring poverty is needed, one that accounts for multiple factors such as housing, and regional economic differences.
Beyond ‘X Number Served’
To cure the social sector’s metric monomania, we must get comfortable with complexity.