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Does Alternative Meat Need Philanthropy to Take It Beyond?

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

With donations from Bezos Earth Fund and Open Philanthropy, the Good Food Institute has helped shaped the market for alternative meat. Support from philanthropy helped to spark an alt-meat boom. Yet the industry doesn’t appear to be taking off. But can it be sustained?

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Here’s How Philanthropy Will Fix Declining Empathy

The NonProfit Times

Yet, philanthropy endures. Philanthropy will no longer remain confined to a wealthy elite but will transform into a shared, lived experience for people across the economic spectrum. It will be about embedding philanthropy into the rhythms of life rather than relegating it to occasional gestures.

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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? Not philanthropy’s problem. Since then that allocation has increased to 3 percent.

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Learning From a Decade of Collaborative Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Second, endowed foundations are increasingly fundraising from other donors so that they can mobilize more funding to advance their sophisticated strategiesa method philanthropy advisors Valerie Conn and Sofia Michelakis described in a recent SSIR article as funders fundraising.

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Why Does Philanthropy Keep Overlooking Disability Funding?

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

job market that is virtually closed to people with mental and cognitive disabilities. Clary, AFP via Getty Images Manager Shray Campbell, left, and employees Josh and Noah, serve food at Café Joyeux in Manhattan. The French restaurant chain, staffed by people with autism and Down’s Syndrome, is setting up shop in a U.S.

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The NonProfit Voice Ep 80: How Marketing Automation Can Relieve Fundraisers of Manual Administrative Duties

NonProfit PRO

In this episode of The NonProfit Voice Tech Series, Abigayle Tobia, vice president of philanthropy at Verland, and Erik Tomalis, chief evangelist and director of business development at Virtuous, join Mark Becker, editorial advisory board member for NonProfit PRO, to discuss how marketing automation can simplify tasks.

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From Policy to Power: Centering People by Supporting Tenant Unions

NonProfit Quarterly

But relying on the market to solve the affordability crisis ignores the structural problems and power dynamics baked into our housing system. By some estimates , private equity firms will control 40 percent of the single-family rental market by 2030. It is past time for philanthropy to step up. And its only getting worse.