Kevin Starr’s critique of impact investing resonates with anyone who has worked where results cannot clearly be linked to invested capital: Intentionality without additionality is mostly theater. Market-rate capital rarely flows…
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Click here for more.Mutual aid is not a new concept, but over the past decade, as communities across the globe face increasing threats to their wellbeing and safety—and as surveillance and oppression on…
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Click here for more.Animal Charity Evaluators’ Better for Animals: Evidence-Based Insights for Effective Animal Advocacy resource is an ongoing project in which we distill key research on different animal advocacy interventions to help us…
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For almost three years, Sudan’s networks of volunteer responders, known as the Emergency Response Rooms, or ERRs, have sustained communities through one of the most brutal and neglected wars of…
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Behind the Sandy-Hassmiller Climate & Health Initiative are Lewis G. Sandy, M.D. (1982) and Susan Hassmiller, R.N., Ph.D., FAAN, whose decades of experience in leadership and public health inspired their investment…
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Last summer, Press Forward made almost $23 million in grants to 22 organizations aimed at bolstering the infrastructure for local news. The grants by this local news funder were the culmination of…
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Instacart, the D.C. Department of Health (DC Health), and Martha’s Table recently launched the DC Grocery Access Pilot program to expand access to fresh, healthy foods for D.C. residents. The…
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Click here for more.In Greek mythology, King Sisyphus was condemned by the god Zeus to spend eternity rolling a boulder up a hill only to have it roll back down, having to start…
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Philanthropy has grown accustomed to funding solutions. It buys land, backs technologies, underwrites services, and supports policies designed to address clear and urgent problems. Less often does it invest in…
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Asia is at an inflection point. Withdrawal of aid, shifting global priorities, and declining bilateral support have left communities exposed, revealing the risks of external donor reliance. For decades, the…
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Every morning at 74th Street Elementary School in South Los Angeles, a small figure walks briskly through the front gate. Her name is Linda Ricks; she’s a retired office manager…
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As the world turns in ever more dramatic fashion, very few of us can say our lives are untouched by conflict. While growing numbers of people – equivalent to a…