For most of us, participation on digital platforms has become a casual feature of modern life—from purchasing groceries to accessing entertainment, from getting a cab to scheduling an appointment with…
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Click here for more.Housing cost burdens are unequally distributed by race, with Black and Latino households two to three times more likely to pay outsized shares of their income toward housing. Significant racial…
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Many donors and NGOs have the intention of working more collaboratively with young people. These intentions have been demonstrated through consensus statements, challenges, research, tools, and pooled funding mechanisms. As young people running youth-led organizations and as ‘aged-out’…
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Click here for more.Just like that, it’s late November — and Giving Season is upon us. It would be easy to focus on the negatives as we approach this season; there is a…
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Click here for more.There is increasing recognition that the vast sums of money in philanthropic foundations, trusts and donor-advised funds today were often built from extractive and exploitative practices such as the enslavement…
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Click here for more.The desire to give back is rooted deep within the spirit of humanity. There is evidence of giving dating back to the building of the pyramids in Egypt, and the…
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At GEO’s 2022 National Conference, hosted in partnership with Forefront, grantmakers and other practitioners had the opportunity to come together in Chicago, Illinois, to explore challenges and uncover solutions with fellow grantmakers…
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Click here for more.The rosy story that the Colcom Foundation tells about itself is that it is a regionally-rooted foundation committed to “remediating environmental damage from a history of heavy industry and supporting…
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Click here for more.At Chicago Beyond, we see a practical alternative to traditional institutional philanthropy that could invigorate the sector’s ability to create deep change. We call our approach “Whole Philanthropy.” Whole Philanthropy…
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The team at Just Impact Advisors is pleased to share our ten 2022 giving season recommendations. Our goal is to make it easy to give directly to organizations doing high-impact…
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One of the most exciting things about food and ag right now is the potential for change. The industry’s environmental problems — waste, greenhouse gases, biodiversity loss — are real.…
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In this guest blog, Cazenove Capital outline what charities with investments need to be thinking about right now. Opinions are the author’s own. Charities will be an undisputable source of…