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The Next Generation of Mutualism

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The capital markets that can invest in social enterprise are chaotic and low-impact. Shaila Agha of the Regen Foundation has documented how this community-centric financing addresses gaps in the formal banking systemalong with its growth to over 300,000 participants. million children.

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Nonprofits Need Equity Too: The Case for Providing “Enterprise Capital”

NonProfit Quarterly

Todays model for funding nonprofits and social enterprises is fundamentally broken. This crisis has laid bare what nonprofit leaders have known for years: Todays model for funding nonprofits and social enterprises is fundamentally broken. We wouldnt have survived without it, Paul Bradley, ROC USAs founder, told NPQ.

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What do nonprofits struggle with the most?

Blue Avocado

Many organizations rely heavily on foundation grants and government funding, which — while essential — are often unpredictable and come with restrictive guidelines. Opportunities exist in launching social enterprises, fee-for-service programs, investing in donor engagement, and more.

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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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Impact Investing Can’t Deliver by Chasing Market Returns

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Most practitioners working in community development have accepted this as the reality of impact investing: The harder you drive for social impact in disadvantaged communities, the farther away you get from unbuffered full market return. But the hype persists.

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A Social Movement Requires Momentum

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Corporations and institutional philanthropy began issuing passionate statements about “meeting the moment” and “showing up” in communities in ways that they hadn’t done before, making financial commitments that now total $340 billion. Heron Foundation offers an example of 100 percent impact endowment alignment.

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Gumbo for the Struggle: Recipes of Liberation from the Cultural Kitchen

NonProfit Quarterly

million in renovations to support a community-developed plan to reopen this legacy site as a collectively owned community asset. She is also the curator and founder of Betti Ono Foundation. BAMBD CDC is an arts-based organization invested in community development writ large.

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