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Small Firms Are Still a Big Missed Opportunity in Development Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

But when we look at philanthropy in the US and Europe, the list of private foundations that have a primary focus on SME growth is extremely small, just over a dozen. Why is philanthropy still hesitant? Since then that allocation has increased to 3 percent.

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From Policy to Power: Centering People by Supporting Tenant Unions

NonProfit Quarterly

The fundamental profit-seeking goals of these companies have contributed to increasing rents, as well as instability and housing insecurity. For instance, the quasi-autonomous government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac established a set of multifamily tenant protections for properties they finance.

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How the Wealthy Took Control of Nonprofits

NonProfit Quarterly

In Reimagining Nonprofit Boards , a three-part series based on the NPQ webinar, A New Framework for Boards, Ananda Valenzuela challenges traditional governance models and offers a new vision for boards that empower rather than constrain. To get there, however, requires an understanding of how boards came to be.

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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.”

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Maybe nonprofit governance aint what it needs to be?

Philanthropy 2173

nonprofit sector really sees the organization as anything other than a commercial firm (it has a capped profit structure, which limits the amount of profit to be returned to shareholders, but only designates profits to be reinvested in the organization (as nonprofits due) after investors are paid out).

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Cultivating a Just Climate Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The magnitude of the problem warrants philanthropy and aid at scale. Smallholder farmers, by contrast, may not have a formal land title and may plant just one or two dozen trees a year non-contiguously across their land. Again here, grants, concessional lending, results-based finance, and other types of philanthropy can be catalytic.

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What Will Replace 'Checkout Charity' After Big Retailers are Gone?

Selfish Giving

Brands that embrace employee volunteering and giving reap a bounty of rewards, and see a fantastic ROI - not least of all because their employees demand them - but in terms of more authentic marketing, improved employee engagement, better retention, and even higher profitability. This process is ripe for disruption.

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