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Impact investing: Catalyzing systemic change 

Candid

million nonprofit organizations, causes, and movements. Impact investing is only the latest iteration of how foundations can use their assets for the public good. The Heron Foundation , for example, works with mission-aligned, poverty-oriented investment managers to grow its assets. In 2023 alone, U.S.

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Organizing a Community Around Food Sovereignty

NonProfit Quarterly

In the series, urban and rural grassroots leaders from across the United States share how their communities are developing and implementing strategies—grounded in local places, cultures, and histories—to shift power and achieve systemic change. I also come from a family of grocery workers and managers.

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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.