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

Selfish Giving

Over a decade the retailer had raised $100 million dollars for the hospital's cancer care and research, making Kmart the hospital's biggest donor in its 50+ year history. "It Behind all the smiles and applause in Memphis was the cold truth that online retail would soon steamroll Kmart into oblivion. Next $100 million in five years!

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What Would a Social Justice Investment Ecosystem Look Like?

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Anders Norrback Bornholm on unsplash.com In a report published last year for Just Futures , an investment advisory firm that seeks to encourage “values-based investing,” Anand Jahi indicates that the amount of money invested on Wall Street totals $71.4 But first: what is meant by “impact investing” anyway?

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How Co-ops Can Use Digital Tools Effectively to Advance Social Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

Many of these companies, retailers, and conventional counterparts have mastered the use of these tools. Online shopping platforms and large retail media networks that drive brand awareness and loyalty now meet consumers where they are, not only at the “point of sale.”

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Detroit People’s Food Co-op: How to Advance Black Food Sovereignty

NonProfit Quarterly

To find out, NPQ interviewed Malik Kenyatta Yakini, cofounder of the Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network (DBCFSN); Lanay Gilbert-Williams, current co-op board president; and Akil Talley, the co-op’s first full-time permanent general manager. And they also had a community room for community meetings within the co-op.

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Why Homeownership Fails to Build Wealth for Black Women

NonProfit Quarterly

According to a 2019 Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances , the median value of a home owned by Black families is $150,000 compared to $230,000 for white families. The legacy of such practices continues today. In short, Black and white households do not experience the benefits of homeownership equally.

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Unlocking the Power of Data Refineries for Social Impact

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In contrast, a 2017 report found that only 5 percent of nonprofits were using artificial intelligence, and only 28 percent of nonprofits were using data for predictive or prescriptive purposes. Anatomy of a Data Ecosystem Data ecosystems exist in many fields: finance, health care, retail, entertainment, elections, and even sports.

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Impact Investing Can’t Deliver by Chasing Market Returns

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Because the impact from these for-profit investments is exactly the same as the impact from our nonprofit grants: More than half of the organizations are directly impacting more than 10,000 lives, more than 40 percent are impacting 50,000 lives, a quarter are impacting 500,000 lives and more than a fifth, millions of lives.

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