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Thank Heaven For 11: Take The Lead Celebrates 11 Years Working Toward Mission of Equity

Fundraising Leadership

Panels on wealth, health, policy, career pivots, collaboration, and entrepreneurship were part of the day, including awards for Changemaker, Leading Company Award, Leading Advocate Award, and Leading Man Award. Read more in Take The Lead on 50 Women Can Change The World in Finance. 50 Women Can Change The World.

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What Would an Economy That Loved Black People Look Like?

NonProfit Quarterly

This involves deep collaboration between movement leaders, creatives, and community, as well as with investors, funders, and wealth holders. We must collaborate on ways to work together and co-conspire to build collective power. It takes long-term, non-extractive, reparative investments. We must be deliberate in how we apply pressure.

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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. As a result, the ventures’ growth was not fast, but steady and durable.

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Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

A Call for Entrepreneurship Many entrepreneurs choose health care as a venue for innovation because it is one of the sectors where one can do well by doing good. However, the majority of entrepreneurship in the health sector has focused on downstream interventions such as therapeutics and health delivery solutions.

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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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Building Community Capacity in Rural East Texas: The Long Lift

NonProfit Quarterly

Borrowing language from recent findings on rural entrepreneurship, rural philanthropy should be understood as “a distinct phenomenon worthy of distinct focus.” So how can rural philanthropy meet this moment? To access this funding, rural communities need to build and mobilize inclusive organizing structures and financing mechanisms.

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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. Creatives and cultural leaders working with leaders in economics, finance, and everyday neighbors can harness the power of narrative to redefine economic opportunities and foster community resilience.

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