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How Nonprofits Can Leverage Their Financial Relationships to Advance Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

Or think about a housing nonprofit realizing that its primary bank engages in predatory lending practices that push families into homelessness. For example, housing nonprofits can work with CDFIs specializing in affordable housing loans, while environmental organizations might consider collaborating with green investment funds.

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Are Women Donors the Key to Unlocking More Giving?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It has become common wisdom in the social sector that too much philanthropic capital is sitting on the sidelines, even as the world faces extraordinary social, political, and environmental challenges. Women are more collaborative: Women are more likely to engage in collaborative giving than men (e.g. a giving circle).

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Collaboration Across Social Boundaries: A Practical Guide

Stanford Social Innovation Review

An entrepreneur hoping to market affordable solar finds it necessary to collaborate with architects, materials scientists, and roofing contractors. Simply put, social change requires social collaboration. They have also pointed us to some essential best practices for anyone setting out to collaborate across boundaries.

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Learning That Changes Lives: Local Leader Shares Journey to Nonprofit Success

NonProfit Leadership Center

Collaborative. It empowered us to think outside the box and avoid getting siloed into our own organization or job so we could really take into account the external and environmental factors and how they impact the ability to achieve your mission.” Empowering. Transformative.

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Senior Operations Manager

Anedot

goes to waste, contributing significantly to environmental damage, with global food waste ranking as the third-largest source of greenhouse gas emissions behind the U.S. Collaborate with the Director of Programs to ensure recipient partner sites are supported and food rescue quality is consistently high.

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Transforming Our Housing System

Stanford Social Innovation Review

They were also more likely to live in units that were overcrowded or contaminated by lead, asbestos, and other environmental hazards within high-poverty, low-opportunity communities. To mobilize the full power and potential of philanthropy requires more effective collaboration and coordination among foundations.

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Leveraging the Collective Power of Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

With limited affordable rental options in better resourced areas, people are sometimes held hostage in rodent- and mold-infested homes, battling the health consequences of toxic climate and environmental conditions , and far away from medical care, transportation, jobs, and quality schools. Good and Hard Lessons Learned.