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A Quarter of All Homeowners Could Lose Insurance Due to Climate Change

NonProfit Quarterly

In the case of disaster-prone states like California, some insurance companies may feel it’s not profitable to insure homeowners there anymore and are pulling out of those markets. Grist cites one city in California, San Bernardino, where between 2015 and 2021, non-renewals of policies jumped 774 percent.

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ESG Is Not Impact Investing and Impact Investing Is Not ESG

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Coined in 2004, ESG emerged as a joint effort by the UN, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and the Swiss Government to support the financial industry’s consideration of ESG issues in mainstream investment decision-making (although its roots exist in the socially responsible movement, or SRI). ESG is a framework.

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Segregation Helped Build Fortunes. What Does Philanthropy Owe Now?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Claire Dunning In early 1926, Cafritz Construction placed an advertisement in The Washington Post celebrating the speed with which their “Life-time Homes” were selling in the Petworth neighborhood of Washington, DC. Perhaps potential buyers would be swayed by the “superior construction” or the “unusually big lots.”

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The Hollow Prize for Leaders of Color

Stanford Social Innovation Review

But when the (often white) leaders had funder relationships that could allow them to write their own checks, governing boards didn’t ask too many questions. That goes for all types of organizations: nonprofit or for-profit. How should governing boards move beyond performative change? The country’s 33.2 million (9.6

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How to strengthen your nonprofit from the inside out

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

I recently had a chance to catch up with the Aina Gutierrez, author of Walking the Walk: A Values Centered Approach to Building a Strong Non-Profit and Deputy Director of Interfaith Worker Justice. Most small organizations don’t have access to constructive feedback or support. A number of staff work for low pay and few benefits.

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Reimagining the Role of Business in Protecting Biodiversity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As one executive passionately said in a recent interview, “climate action is non-negotiable, but the race to outpace biodiversity loss is even more crucial. Our planet, and our profits, hinge on it.” For companies operating in non-land-based sectors (i.e. Contribute to ecosystem restoration.

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Getting Federal Money to Communities: A Story from Puerto Rico

NonProfit Quarterly

As a Puerto Rico-based nonprofit that leverages community-based abandonment inventories, community–municipal partnerships, a rehabilitation and construction team, and in-house legal expertise to convert abandoned buildings and lots into opportunities for community-led development, the lack of access to financing nearly destroyed the organization.