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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. While common in some sectors like housing finance, these guarantees have typically been issued by public entities, not by philanthropy.

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A Social Movement Requires Momentum

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Showing Up In the United States, the public murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in 2020 sparked a national moment of reckoning with institutional racism, income inequality, and related failures inherent in US social and economic systems. In its wake, momentum for change seemed to build.

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How Resident-Owned Communities Can Create Mass Affordable Homeownership

NonProfit Quarterly

ROC USA can make this work because it can extend financing via its community development financial institution (CDFI) subsidiary. It can also tap into philanthropic funds and an increasing number of public sources of low-cost debt and community development grants. Philanthropy can also increase its support.

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Giving Trends in Mexico: Millennials and Gen Z Drive Rise in Online Giving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Mexican people are very generous in their private circle, but when it comes to philanthropy, the bad reputations of some of the large NGOs hinders the growth in online giving. Also, online communication skills are lacking at many NGOs compared with the online marketing skills at e-commerce sites. 81% of donors in Mexico volunteer.