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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. There is, however, a way for nonprofits to gain greater access to “flexible” capital and for foundations to generate a financial return.

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How Resident-Owned Communities Can Create Mass Affordable Homeownership

NonProfit Quarterly

Founded in 2008 with backing from the Ford Foundation, NeighborWorks America, New Hampshire Community Loan Fund, Capital Impact Partners, and Prosperity Now, ROC USA and its affiliates have assisted 22,000 residents in over 300 communities in 21 states to collectively purchase and manage their ROCs.

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A Social Movement Requires Momentum

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This speaks directly to the central paradox: While the traditional approach to money management is part of the problem in philanthropy and impact investing, chosen strategies have also played an outsized role in where we are. What if DAFs and foundations relied on fund allocators and managers who are proximate to communities and their issues?

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How to Advance a Regenerative Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

In the nonprofit sector, it requires transcending the standard hierarchical funder-nonprofit dynamics and replacing them with norms of power sharing and reciprocity. Unlike many funding opportunities, qualifying projects did not need to have nonprofit tax status or be fiscally sponsored by a nonprofit.

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Making Food Systems Work for People of Color: Six Action Steps

NonProfit Quarterly

And in so doing we are challenging the community development field to do better—by creating new tools to support truly equitable food-oriented development. Many large community development financial institutions , credit unions, and foundations present themselves as community-based food financing leaders.

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Giving Trends in Mexico: Millennials and Gen Z Drive Rise in Online Giving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Our government is discussing providing free wifi throughout in Mexico City which is a very good sign for crowdfunding and even better for NGOs funding. Also, online communication skills are lacking at many NGOs compared with the online marketing skills at e-commerce sites. Finally, digitalization is growing fast in Mexico.

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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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