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We Must Be Founders

Stanford Social Innovation Review

We need foundational, structural change, to make these examples not exceptions to the norm, but rather flowing out of the basic logic of how our governments operate. What if we had a Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that took its mandate to ensure human flourishing rather than real estate profit?

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??How Community-Based Public Space Can Build Civic Trust: Lessons from Akron

NonProfit Quarterly

Supported by five national foundations— JPB , Knight , Kresge , Rockefeller , and William Penn —each city received $4 million from the funder collaborative. All these popular amenities and activities were conceived and constructed in close collaboration with residents.

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New data for strategic disaster philanthropy 

Candid

Foundations and public charities funded $352 million for disasters and humanitarian crises. . Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) provided $22 billion in official development assistance. Economic Development Administration (EDA) invested approximately $381.7

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“Educational Purposes”: Nonprofit Land as a Vital Site of Struggle

NonProfit Quarterly

After decades of urban disinvestment, many urbanites celebrate these schools as “anchor institutions” to help drive their area’s big comeback or renewal. Real estate developers like Wexford: Science + Technology have calculated the benefits of working on property-tax-exempt campus land.

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Housing and Climate: Funding Holistic Solutions

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Funders for Housing and Opportunity (FHO) is a collaborative of 13 philanthropies, including The JPB Foundation where I serve as senior vice president of environment and strategic initiatives. But the solutions coming from the fields of housing and climate change often are not as holistic as they need to be.