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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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National Gathering Looks to Address Root Causes of Inequality

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Clint McKoy on unsplash.com “We know that redlining and segregation was not just a phenomenon that has to do with banks,” Jesse Van Tol, CEO of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, said. The conference brings together hundreds of community activists, government officials, and bank community development officers.

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Beyond Pledges: Building More Inclusive Capital Ecosystems

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Brandon on Unsplash The murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police three and a half years ago ignited a months-long period of mass social mobilization and intense public engagement. After all, financial institutions that understand their clients’ backgrounds can more effectively respond to their needs.

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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.

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[VIDEO] Building a Better Grants Strategy Post-COVID

Bloomerang

But if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang beyond the webinars, we are a provider of donor management software. So I always like to take a step back and say, “Okay, before we start to talk about writing, and management, and all of these other things, I think it’s really important to think about how do we get here?

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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.