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Build a Non-profit Website that Works [Steal These Ideas!]

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Building a non-profit website might be the most intimidating aspect of launching an organization. The experience people have on your non-profit website will influence what they think about you and if they think they can trust you. And your friend who is a website developer won’t be able to help you.

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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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What Would a Social Justice Investment Ecosystem Look Like?

NonProfit Quarterly

trillion figure any investment by firms that analyzed “ESG” factors when deciding where to invest funds and/or advocated for shareholder resolutions that seek some non-economic social benefit. Specially, US SIF counted in its $17.1-trillion This makes ESG investment easy to do—no need to sacrifice financial return.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Many in the nonprofit sector look at their income statements (also known as the “profit and loss” report), but unless you’re a chief financial officer or perform a similar role, you may spend far less time looking at your organization’s overall financial position. Together, these smaller nonprofits have an estimated $22.1

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

NonProfit Quarterly

The economic benefits they provide continually miss the communities that need these benefits the most because governments have structurally excluded them in the past. The debated extended beyond the utility and solar industry as many environmental and consumer protection organizations got involved.

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The Invisible Rural Access Barrier

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Governments and funders do not prioritize investing in rural access improvements due to a lack of data to make the case as well as competition from other development projects and a preference for urban investments. But the new infrastructure brought environmental benefits, too. We know these solutions have a great impact.

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Building Economic Resilience in the Rust Belt: Buffalo’s Growing Co-op Network

NonProfit Quarterly

We are a community-led resource center, a team of cooperative business developers and educators, and a community-controlled non-extractive loan fund. The cooperative model is less about centering profit, but more about centering people,” explains Sim. Doing for Ourselves Buffalo is known for powerful snowdrifts and pro football.