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Being and Building Beloved Community: The Intersection of Culture and Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

In the 20th century, Atlanta emerged as a hub of Black entrepreneurship and education. Agbo also insists that the investment be not in traditional structures and institutions but in the governance and ownership by the communities working to build wealth.

Culture 108
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National Gathering Looks to Address Root Causes of Inequality

NonProfit Quarterly

The conference brings together hundreds of community activists, government officials, and bank community development officers. These maps continued to govern bank lending until the passage of the Fair Housing Act of 1968. This year’s event was easily the group’s largest since before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Finance 107
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Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Governments and their policies in far off places can affect food supply or the spread of disease at home and can go further to impact elections, social policy, and even violent conflicts with loss of life.

Health 113
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The Social Impact Investment Mirage

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Either we rely on grant and donor funding, or must continually justify to investors and the public that our entrepreneurship is relevant to solving some of the most pressing issues of our time. It is equally essential that the public sector dramatically scale both social impact financing and other policies to foster innovation.

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Putting Health at the Center of Climate Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Companies can also create goals for their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategies that both improve the well-being of suppliers in the near term and lay a foundation for them to minimize their environmental footprints in the future. Influencing Policy.

Health 103
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Scaling Deep, Not Up: Lessons from Detroit

NonProfit Quarterly

Leaders in many places facing economic decline—be they post-industrial cities in the Rust Belt or depleted communities in former coal mining towns—are increasingly looking to entrepreneurship as a means of revitalization. Neighborhood book clubs were repurposed as platforms with which to educate pet owners.

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What Would an Economy That Loved Black People Look Like?

NonProfit Quarterly

They also continue to face discrimination, and exclusion from government programs, loans, and subsidies. To tap into this dynamic force of change, it is vital to ensure that the extractive finance of the past does not block our collective ability to invest in the talent and innovation of the future.