Betting on Migration for Impact
Enabling people to move for opportunity should be an urgent priority for funders and social innovators who want to make a difference in global inequality.
Enabling people to move for opportunity should be an urgent priority for funders and social innovators who want to make a difference in global inequality.
Understanding the historical roots of many foundation endowments is a critical step in considering the question of philanthropic reparations.
Philanthropists must think beyond funding outcomes and invest in the capacity of systems to perpetuate and sustain change.
Without a clear understanding of the gaps in the market, it is difficult for impact investors to develop sound strategies to fill them.
An excerpt from Occupation: Organizer on the birth of the community organizing model
With an understanding of these 10 funding models, nonprofit leaders can use the for-profit world's valuable practice of engaging in succinct and clear conversations about long-term financial strategy.
A decade of applying the collective impact approach to address social problems has taught us that equity is central to the work.
Too many people believe social value is objective, fixed, and stable, when in fact it is subjective, malleable, and variable.
To do as much good as possible with limited resources, funders should look to woefully underfunded protest movements.
Racial bias creeps into all parts of the philanthropic and grantmaking process. The result is that nonprofits led by people of color receive less money than those led by whites, and philanthropy ends up reinforcing the very social ills it says it is trying to overcome.