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From Impact Investing to “Impact-First” Investing—What Is the Field Learning?

NonProfit Quarterly

generate social or environmental returnor doing wellthat is: make a financial return. There are indeed many investments where social or environmental goals dont harm earnings (and, arguably, even improve earnings). As one firm states , investors do not have to choose between doing goodi.e.

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When Can Volunteers Lead?

NonProfit Quarterly

In this series, The Unexpected Value of Volunteers , author Jan Masaoka takeson the underappreciated topic of volunteerism, provides some unexpected ideas, and points the way toward a public policy agenda on volunteerism. In response to community activism, many government contracts require constituents to serve on the board.

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A Political Roadmap to Social Housing: How Do We Win?

NonProfit Quarterly

Politicians are influenced by money as much as or, frankly, often much more than votes, and public policy is the product of calculating trade-offs between the two. The keystone to implementing (or thwarting) policy objectives are institutions—public, private, or those in between.

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Sharing Meals

Stanford Social Innovation Review

First and foremost, food systems leadership offers opportunities for new relationships, connecting groups as diverse as farmers, emergency food providers, food waste management companies, and environmental justice advocates. About 20 percent are seated within government. Don’t forget to compost!

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What Does Centering Native Justice Require? A New Report Has Answers

NonProfit Quarterly

Legal justice, environmental justice, racial and social justice. One involves the unfilled legal, moral, and economic obligations established by hundreds of treaties with the US government. And a third are limits on Native representation in the US government itself. Credit: Zoe Urness (Tlingit Alaskan Native and Cherokee).

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How to Advance BIPOC Empowerment in the Renewable Energy Industry

NonProfit Quarterly

In response, the IRA’s $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund includes a “ direct pay ” provision that actively supports nonprofits (along with state and local governments, tribal nations, and territories) to engage in this work by offering coverage of up to 70 percent of a project’s costs.

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Critical Coalitions

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Arts & Culture Cities Civic Engagement Economic Development Education Energy Environment Food Health Human Rights Security Social Services Water & Sanitation Sectors Government, Nonprofit, Business, etc. Business Foundations Government Nonprofits & NGOs Social Enterprise Solutions Advocacy, Funding, Leadership, etc.