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Pathways to Alignment of Assets with Mission: Three Foundations’ Journeys

NonProfit Quarterly

Photo by Arno Senoner on Unsplash Should a private foundation be more than a private investment company that uses some of its excess cash flow for charitable purposes? Heron Foundation, New Frontiers in Mission-Related Investing , 2004 At the end of 2024, US private foundations held a record $1.64 trillion in assets.

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How Nonprofits Can Help Free Culture and Benefit from the Public Domain

NonProfit Quarterly

Currently, almost everything is legally locked down by US copyright law, but only entertainment corporations and a few thousand celebrity artists meaningfully benefit. The Copyright Trap The idea of copyright is usually framed as protection: Copyright laws protect creators from having their work stolen or manipulated.

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Nonprofit HR Risks and Best Practices with Dr. Tiffany Slater

The Charity CFO

It’s crucial for non-profit leaders to have a professional approach in how they hire, pay and interact with full-time and part-time employees. Non-Exempt Employees Another area of confusion for many organizations is the distinction between exempt and non-exempt employees. And subscribe to the Youtube channel here.

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Segregation Helped Build Fortunes. What Does Philanthropy Owe Now?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By prohibiting any future sale of the property to Black or other non-white owners, restrictive covenants gave white buyers confidence that their homes and neighborhoods would remain white enclaves and therefore retain the “ enduring value ” that Cafritz promised for his “lifetime homes.” Foundations could follow this model.

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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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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. As US SIF puts it , “the US SIF Foundation decided to modify its methodology for the 2022 report. Specially, US SIF counted in its $17.1-trillion

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Data-fest: Great new stats and insights on social media, Twitter, mobile

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

There are currently a little more than 400 approved charities through the Mobile Giving Foundation and—in the three weeks following Haiti—there were more than 800 requests from non-profits about mobile giving.&#.