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Getting Federal Money to Communities: A Story from Puerto Rico

NonProfit Quarterly

CRH’s salvation eventually came in the form of a collaborative approach, pivoting toward a combination of emergency funding provided by a small family foundation; a nonprofit, non-extractive loan fund; a third-party investment firm; and a coalition of Latinx community development financial institutions (CDFIs). Winning the Lottery?

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10 Ways Funders Can Address Generative AI Now

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Most obviously, funders working in specific issue areas—climate, health, education, or in my case, democracy—can work to support efforts downstream to prepare government and civil society in their respective sectors to take advantage of the opportunities and mitigate the risks of AI on their specific areas of concern. This might include: 1.

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Impact Investing for the Missing Middle in Agri-Finance

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Wouter Vandersypen , Chris Claes & Steven Serneels Imagine being in charge of a profitable vegetable cooperative in Benin. You know the cooperative can increase its income and improve its resilience if most of this year’s profit is set aside for investing in new hardware. You also know that your members are very poor.

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The Social Impact Investment Mirage

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The False Binary Between For-profits and Nonprofits: Where the Troubles Begin. We decided early on to incorporate NeedsList as a for-profit, purpose-driven company. We bought into the notion that a for-profit company was the way to scale and achieve impact. We weren’t alone. ” Investors interrogated our decision. .”

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3 Powerful Virtual Fundraising Ideas for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

On the other hand, global processes like collaboration against climate change, protests against social inequality and racism (#BlackLivesMatter), or social movement against sexual harassment and abuse (#metoo) have brought nonprofits even more prominence. Non-for-profit organizations, despite what their name suggests, can make money.

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How Water.org Adapted Their Social Media Content Strategy in Response to COVID-19

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The current social media environment has caused non-profit marketers to re-evaluate their content aware of the acute conversations being had on every channel, at a global level. Video collaboration with Sony artists Marc Scibilia and voice over by Water.org co-founder Matt Damon.

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Building Public Support for Employee Ownership: Lessons from Colorado

NonProfit Quarterly

While the National Center for Employee Ownership defines employee ownership as “any arrangement in which a company’s employees own shares in their company or the right to the value of shares in their company,” in a worker cooperative, ownership means not just sharing profits, but having a direct voice and vote in the workplace.