At the national level, the connection between the public and government seems broken. Trust in government has been declining for decades, and in the most recent Edelman Trust Barometer survey,…
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Click here for more.Instead of relying on funders, governments, and nonprofits to engage communities and incorporate their input into institutionally led strategies for improving people’s lives, peer-driven change occurs when constituents identify their…
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The missions of for-profit businesses and nonprofit organizations can vary dramatically. Nonprofits typically focus on public purposes and are prohibited from distributing profits to individuals in control of organizations (what Henry Hansmann refers to…
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Click here for more.Prior to the establishment of the Bosch Community Fund in 2011, Bosch in North America maintained a corporate contributions program to support the communities where we have a presence. The…
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Click here for more.The series “Collective Impact, 10 Years Later” has elevated a range of voices from people catalyzing, implementing, funding, and supporting collective impact work. The series reflects on how the field…
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Click here for more.CDFIs have been around since the 1960s and they have a long history of investing in local institutions, providing financing to marginalized communities, and slowly changing the systems that have…
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We are flipping the script for this episode of Conversations with Chanda. Instead of hosting, Chanda answers questions from the Minneapolis Foundation’s Senior Director of Impact and Collective Giving, Patrice…
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Click here for more.The challenges local governments and nonprofits face today are almost absurdly daunting. Setting aside the perennial struggle to reconcile ever-growing needs and ever-shrinking budgets, the pandemic has devastated community health…
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Click here for more.The COVID-19 pandemic hit communities of color in the United States with a disproportionate ferocity that exposed and exploited generations of inequity. For vulnerable youth and young adults residing in…
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Click here for more.Why does the country’s largest foundation dedicated to health and health equity care about community power? I get that question a lot when discussing our support of Lead Local, a collaboration…
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Click here for more.Sometimes we lose sight of a simple truth about systems: They are made up of people. Despite all of the frameworks and tools at our disposal and all of our…
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Click here for more.During a recent class, my freshmen and I were discussing the best ways to engage with the complex world of high school. We talked about how to juggle multiple deadlines,…