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How Guarantees Can Advance Community Development and Racial Equity

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Charlota Blunarova on unsplash.com Private foundations are best known for their grantmaking. However, each year, foundations nationwide invest hundreds of billions, often with the simple goal of maximizing financial returns to fund future grants. At the most basic level, a guarantee is akin to automobile insurance.

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Helping Movements Meet the Moment: What Philanthropy Can and Must Do

NonProfit Quarterly

As community power builders and social movement organizers engage in vibrant debates on how to address the immediate expressions and root causes of these multiple crises, social justice funders should take their own hard look at why the problems they have sought to address persist in such an exacerbated form. Their main finding?

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Action Steps to Grow Climate-Driven Philanthropy in Rural Communities

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Ankush (Yogletics) on pexels.com Philanthropy should fund climate mitigation in rural communities like lives depend on it—because they do. Late last month, a long-track tornado tore through Mississippi and Alabama, killing 26 people and decimating the entire town of Rolling Fork, MS. percent ($9.7

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Philanthropy Must Move from Charity to Solidarity

NonProfit Quarterly

Philanthropy comes in many forms. For over a decade, Black Philanthropy Month has been a time of reflection on Black philanthropists’ contributions—including the contributions of Black liberation movements. It also encourages me to rethink the definition of philanthropy itself. Image Credit: Diva Plavalaguna on pexels.com.

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Nonprofits as Battlegrounds for Democracy

NonProfit Quarterly

While the title of the book might belie the scope of inquiry, Dunning makes the case that using nonprofits as a “tool for addressing urban problems” has led to a form of “urban governance” that uses private organizations to fulfill public, democratic rights. And over time, private foundations emerged and issued grants in a similar way.

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Ancestor in the Making: A Future Where Philanthropy’s Legacy Is Stopping the Bad and Building the New

NonProfit Quarterly

1 A version of this story was previously presented as part of remarks made at CHANGE Philanthropy, in 2021. The organization I worked with at the time, Justice Funders, 3 helped to build a democratic loan fund that was run by community leaders from across the country.” “Mom But how would they know what the community needs?”

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Making Policy Work for Rural Communities: The Value of Community Voice

NonProfit Quarterly

Coproduced by Partners for Rural Transformation, a coalition of six regional community development financial institutions, and NPQ , authors highlight efforts to address multi-generational poverty in Appalachia, the rural West, Indian Country, South Texas, and the Mississippi Delta.

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