A New Paradigm for Community Development Finance - ssir.org
The traditional model of community development finance is limited by market conservatism and a focus on scale, rather than local control. We need a new paradigm that prioritizes impact over scale, emphasizes flexible and creative financing strategies, and empowers community voice. | Open access to this article is made possible by The Center for Community Investment, a sponsored ...
Stanford Social Innovation Review: Informing and Inspiring …
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Wikimedia Foundation: Building Trust Through Community
Nov 21, 2024 · In 2020, people viewed COVID-related content on Wikipedia—the free, online encyclopedia—579 million times in more than 180 languages. In fact, medical content on the site received more pageviews than any other health information resource online that year.
Innovative Solutions for the Housing Crisis (SSIR)
Dec 1, 2020 · An excellent example of private sector innovation is Symbium, located in San Francisco, which has developed a computational law platform that mechanizes the rules and regulations of a planning code, to help homeowners, design professionals, and planners quickly determine if an Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) is allowed on a property.
When Good Algorithms Go Sexist: Why and How to Advance AI …
Mar 31, 2021 · In 2019, Genevieve (co-author of this article) and her husband applied for the same credit card. Despite having a slightly better credit score and the same income, expenses, and debt as her husband, the credit card company set her credit limit at almost half the amount.
Sectors - Articles
Lean Experimentation for the Social Sector: Build Smart to Learn Fast. Featuring Steve Blank, Giff Constable, Chase Adam, & Alethea Hannemann How can a nonprofit with limited time and money maximize its chances of success?
Community Building Is Essential to Social Change …
Nov 7, 2024 · As traditional power dynamics shift, participatory models are emerging. And as Henry Timms and Jeremy Heimans highlight in their important book, New Power, old hierarchies are giving way to more distributed networks.Soon, artificial intelligence (AI) tools will be integral to everyone’s daily lives, and they will reshape how foundations and nonprofits achieve their missions—especially when ...
The Significance of Four Centuries of Black Labor (SSIR)
May 14, 2019 · Elizabeth Day, “#BlacklivesMatter: The Birth of a New Civil Rights Movement,” 19 July 1915, online, accessed, Dec. 28, 2017; Lang, Black America in the Shadow of the Sixties, xv, 13, 34, 126-27, 130.For a pioneering study of the increasing movement of racialized poverty to the suburbs, see sociologist Alexandra Murphy, When the Sidewalks End: Poverty and Race in an American Suburb (New ...
When It Comes to Understanding Donors, Does Size Matter Most?
Oct 10, 2024 · One of the most fundamental distinctions we tend to make in US philanthropy is between individual and institutional donors. Individual donors include both wealthy philanthropists and millions of average Americans who collectively …