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How Guarantees Can Advance Community Development and Racial Equity

NonProfit Quarterly

While many foundations screen their endowment investments based on environmental, social, and governance factors, only a few optimize their investment strategies for mission impact. While common in some sectors like housing finance, these guarantees have typically been issued by public entities, not by philanthropy.

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The Next Generation of Mutualism

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The left has often undercut a notion of a mutualist future by insisting that every problem needs a large centralized government solution. To ensure mutualism thrives in the next generation, communities need laws, regulations, practices, and capital markets that encourage solidarity and investment outside of any given silo.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Earlier this year , the federal government historically the second-largest funder of nonprofits in the United States, after income from program feesordered a blanket federal funding freeze, putting over $300 billion in annual funding for nonprofits at risk.

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Deepening Impact Through Relational Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

We put forward three recommendations to help realize this goal of “ relational philanthropy ”: 1) commitment to fostering meaningful relationships centered on “we” vs “us/them”; 2) instituting practices that promote shared learning and continuous improvement; and 3) developing a standard of conduct for philanthropy.

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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.

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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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US Nonprofit Sector Documents Its Own Powerlessness, but What Will We Do?

NonProfit Quarterly

Since 1973, I have started or led 14 nonprofit enterprises in the arts, community development, and civic engagement sectors. One early critique of the nonprofit sectors ability to impact large-scale change appears in the 2001 paper, The Decline of Progressive Policy and the New Philanthropy by Robert O.