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Ancestor in the Making: A Future Where Philanthropy’s Legacy Is Stopping the Bad and Building the New

NonProfit Quarterly

First, democratic funds like Seed Commons, 4 Ujima Fund, 5 and the Just Transition Integrated Capital Fund gave us a new model for how communities could steward and govern capital together. The passage of the THRIVE Act prioritized renewable, environmentally sound, ethically sourced energy production, from development to deployment.

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Social Housing: How a New Generation of Activists Are Reinventing Housing

NonProfit Quarterly

Some point to large-scale, government-run rental housing, while others also explicitly include housing cooperatives and community land trusts. But in the end, governments dragged their feet and promised change stayed on the drawing board. But that hasn’t stopped movements from pushing. In an era that we call Social Housing 1.0,

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How to Restore the Care in Long-Term Nursing Care

NonProfit Quarterly

2012) and demonstrate the failure of government regulations to rein in abuses (Coskun 2022; Silver-Greenberg and Gebeloff 2021). Impact investing, as defined by the Global Impact Investing Network , is an investment tool “made with the intention to generate positive, measurable, social and environmental impact alongside a financial return.”

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Nonprofit Isn’t the Only Option: Benefit Corporations, B Corps and More

NonProfit Hub

An assessment of the overall social and environmental performance against a third-party standard. First, your organization completes an impact assessment to determine the effect it has on the community in four segments: governance, workers, community and environment. Becoming a B Corp requires just three steps.