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A Social Movement Requires Momentum

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In the realm of social change, community-based leaders are skilled at influencing and using momentum to advance local solutions but often lack all the financial resources they need to push those solutions to their full potential. Of course, both require long-term funding and investment since they lay the foundation for new approaches.

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Housing and Health: Creating Solutions With Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Decades of discriminatory housing, transportation, and land-use policy combined with economic disinvestment have resulted in communities that are residentially segregated by income, race, ethnicity, language, and immigration status.

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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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How to Align Assets with Mission: Small Steps That Nonprofits Can Take

NonProfit Quarterly

Many in the nonprofit sector look at their income statements (also known as the “profit and loss” report), but unless you’re a chief financial officer or perform a similar role, you may spend far less time looking at your organization’s overall financial position. These assets help nonprofits deliver on their missions by generating income.

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” W hat would a nonprofit sector that pursued economic justice look like? The other five work for nonprofit intermediary organizations. Two of them—Dr.

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The Nonprofit Sector and Social Change: A Conversation between Cyndi Suarez and Claire Dunning

NonProfit Quarterly

But I always had a sense of those organizations when I worked there, an internal critique of what kind of social change were we really bringing about. So, I’m humbled that you see your professional trajectory in this book, because many of the questions came from working at the Boston Foundation. It was just so amazing to read it.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Yannick Lowery / www.severepaper.com Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s fall 2023 issue, “How Do We Create Home in the Future? 2 It has been edited for publication here. 2 It has been edited for publication here. But how would they know what the community needs?”