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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. Farmers are strong voices for environmental rehabilitation.

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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. Don’t forget to compost!

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Legal justice, environmental justice, racial and social justice. Several areas are identified for change in policy and practice using an intersectional approach, but the report has some specific recommendations laid out by topic: Public Policy The Land Back movement is a central focus here.

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How to Advance BIPOC Empowerment in the Renewable Energy Industry

NonProfit Quarterly

Similarly, veteran environmental justice activist and senior fellow at Seed Commons Ed Whitfield told NPQ, “We have work to do to convince both others and ourselves that we are truly the ones we have been waiting for. Ajulo Othow of Black Owners of Solar Services (B.O.S.S.)

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Beyond Dialogue: Igniting Racial Justice in a Shifting Political Landscape

NonProfit Quarterly

It aims to advance grassroots anti-racist solutions for systemic change by impacting public policy and creating a new narrative of inclusion and racial equity for Afro-Latino communities. REBIA emerged out of this institutional commitment to racial equity.