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How Environmental Education Is Moving into High Schools

NonProfit Quarterly

In schools that have raised environmental awareness in their classrooms, environmental and climate justice remain missing perspectives. Together, they created a college-level virtual course entitled “Environmental Studies and Justice” to expose 11th and 12th graders to the intersections of climate justice and environmental science.

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How Nonprofits Can Leverage Their Financial Relationships to Advance Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

Before releasing the report, in October 2024, Impact Experience convened over 30 representatives from movement organizations, impact investing firms, and environmental justice groups to share best practices, promote collaboration, and cultivate a community focused on utilizing financial systems as tools for systemic change.

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How Guarantees Can Advance Community Development and Racial Equity

NonProfit Quarterly

While many foundations screen their endowment investments based on environmental, social, and governance factors, only a few optimize their investment strategies for mission impact. From inception, the pool was centered on community development financing activities and emphasized racial, gender, and economic equity.

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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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Comment on 7 Ways to Sabotage Your Major Gifts Program in an Instant by Wabwire Jennipher

Amy Eisenstein

Can I get one or two about community development or Environmental conservation? Can you help me get a donor. Running an organization organization without one is not a walk in the park. Will really appreciate it. Best regards Jennipher

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How to Align Assets with Mission: Small Steps That Nonprofits Can Take

NonProfit Quarterly

A salient example is of organizations that are focused on community development but invest in mass incarceration. While numerous funds focus on ESG (environmental, social, and governance) factors or thematic equity funds, some mission-aligned investors will use proxy voting to push corporate policy changes.

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How UPROSE Is Creating Clean Energy in Brooklyn

NonProfit Quarterly

We continued to fight against the site and citing environmental burdens while also looking forward to how we bring renewable energy to the community.” We continued to fight against the site and citing environmental burdens while also looking forward to how we bring renewable energy to the community.” says Yeampierre.

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