5 Myths Preventing Catalytic Capital From Going Where It’s Needed
Without a clear understanding of the gaps in the market, it is difficult for impact investors to develop sound strategies to fill them.
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How to Use Integrated Capital to Shift Power to the Front Lines
The Kataly Foundation invests in communities in ways that ensure that more value stays in the community.
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Supporting Visions of New Economic Power
Visionary solidarity economy projects are putting down roots in communities across the United States. But philanthropy will be needed for these seeds to bear fruit.
Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health
A new framework for understanding the opportunity for health care innovators to dig deeper.
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How to Scale Sideways
An excerpt from Fragile Neighborhoods on hyperlocal change
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The Problem With Fair Trade Coffee
Fair Trade-certified coffee is growing in sales, but strict certification requirements are resulting in uneven economic advantages for coffee growers and lower quality coffee for consumers.
Innovative Solutions for the Housing Crisis
Six pathways to making housing more affordable and available from the Ivory Prize for Housing Affordability.
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.