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Report: Native Communities Are a High-Impact, Often Overlooked, Opportunity for Funders

NonProfit PRO

Innovative Solutions: From regenerative agriculture to constitutional reform, Native-led innovation is producing scalable models with global relevance. Source: The Bridgespan Group The preceding press release was provided by a company unaffiliated with NonProfit PRO. Continue to your page in 15 seconds or skip this ad. rail-container).hide();

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From Impact Investing to “Impact-First” Investing—What Is the Field Learning?

NonProfit Quarterly

billion) in assets under management and a 30-year track record, isnt wrong per se. That is the central conclusion of a new report released last December by Boston Impact Initiative , a nonprofit place-based investor in the Boston area and a promoter of the field nationwide. Each fund is unique.

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Why ‘big bets’ matter more than ever: Supporting nonprofits with flexible, long-term, ‘durable’ capital 

Candid

These conversations often center on concerns that the growing cohort of big bet funders, including Lever for Change, are unwittingly encouraging mission creep and unsustainable growth among nonprofits that might be better off with smaller budgets and ambitions. This is not the time for timid philanthropy.

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Bridging for Environmental Justice across Space and Time: Cambodia and the US South

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: “Sister Secrets ” by Renée Laprise Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s fall 2024 issue, “Supporting the Youth Climate Justice Movement.” These villagers were part of what we came to call the “hopeful holdouts”—a small but mighty group who have managed to remain on their native land.

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Exit to Open

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Jim Fruchterman & Steve Francis What happens when a nonprofit program or an entire organization needs to shut down? At the present moment of unparalleled disruption, the entire nonprofit sector is rethinking everything: language to describe their work, funding sources, partnerships, and even their continued existence.

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Anchoring Communities: How to Combat Displacement Through Asset Ownership

NonProfit Quarterly

Owning space—whether for housing, business, or agriculture—is a critical piece of communities’ resistance and long-term stability. created two limited liability companies under its control to manage the property, minimizing financial risk, while maintaining community stewardship. RE-UP is short for R.A.G.E. Economic Upliftment.

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Sharing Meals

Stanford Social Innovation Review

First and foremost, food systems leadership offers opportunities for new relationships, connecting groups as diverse as farmers, emergency food providers, food waste management companies, and environmental justice advocates. This might be a community center, a church, or a public park. About 20 percent are seated within government.