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The Business Case for DEI Reinforces Anti-Black Sentiment

NonProfit Quarterly

Yet rather than acknowledging and responding to its roots in organizing against White supremacy, DEI has developed into an industry that focuses on surface-level, individualistic engagement, and the bottom line—that is, on the ways DEI can boost profitability.

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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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ESG Is Not Impact Investing and Impact Investing Is Not ESG

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As a result, ESG attempts to serve as a guideline for public understanding of environmental, social, and governance factors, while the for-profit nature of impact serves as an incentive to act in favor of and drive capital toward these interests. For example, are diverse-led non-impact companies defined by impact? ESG is a framework.

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Giving Workers Power to Thrive in the Face of New Technology

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Since people of color are disproportionately represented in gig work, and other positions in the tech industry where they’re misclassified as non-employees, the burden of these violations fall hardest on demographics that have historically faced job and wage discrimination.

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What Did California Miss with Its Recent Slashing of a Key Solar Incentive?

NonProfit Quarterly

Second, California’s energy laws and business models are rooted in injustice. Customer-owned energy generation also reduces utilities’ potential to invest in more profit-generating infrastructure, like long-distance transmission power lines. This frame is what the fossil fuel industry is using to gut NEM programs across the country.

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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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The Hollow Prize for Leaders of Color

Stanford Social Innovation Review

That goes for all types of organizations: nonprofit or for-profit. Research from the National Women’s Law Center found that women of color earn less than 70 cents for every dollar earned by a white, non-Hispanic male. Governing boards must construct an onboarding plan in partnership with the incoming BIPOC leader.