The Impact Newsfeed

Daily news digest from the world of affordable housing and impact investing

Equity Starts With Learning

The Medtronic Foundation’s Learning Community brings together nonprofits across three continents to build collective knowledge and advance patient-centered health improvements in underserved communities.

The Future of Fashion

With the goal of reducing pollution, Amsterdam-based Fashion for Good created the Good Fashion Fund (GFF), the first investment fund focused exclusively on encouraging collaborations between fashion and technology.

Building Resiliency in Times of Crisis

Funders must shift their frameworks, expectations, and budgets to better serve nonprofits whose financial models are being tested during the coronavirus pandemic.

Centering Disability in Health Care

The Missing Billion initiative aims to end the health-care gap for disabled people by 2030 by identifying breakdowns, building evidence, and compiling best practices for the health system framework.

News Through a Gender Lens

The 19th, a new nonprofit, nonpartisan publication, is dedicated to in-depth reporting of the issues that matter to women, especially health care.

The Power of Collective Bargaining

Union rights organization Jobs With Justice relies on its extensive nationwide network to advocate for economic and social justice for workers.

Safeguarding Atheist Refugees

A Germany-based nonprofit is helping ex-Muslim asylum seekers find shelter from religious persecution.

A Guaranteed Return

The Good Returns Cycle Program aims to supplement corporate philanthropy by unlocking profits to help social enterprises.

A Nonprofit Networked Platform for Global Health

Project ECHO developed a revolutionary model for helping doctors and clinicians in New Mexico to treat hepatitis C. It spread around the world to address numerous chronic diseases. With the COVID-19 pandemic, it found its moment.

Philanthropy Must Not Support Hate

Commercial national charities and community foundations should refuse requests by donor-advisors to give to hate groups.

Applying a Gender Lens to Social Entrepreneurship

The social sector will flourish through embracing less patriarchal and more collaborative approaches that focus on long-term systemic change.

School Districts Must Embrace Social Responsibility

Schools must help liberate their students and their families from social injustice and support the revitalization and sustainability of their communities and environment.

Unveiling the Informal Economy

Stereotypes cloud our perception of the informal economy, but we have much to learn from the entrepreneurship that unfolds there.

Protests, Violence, and Political Change

The Black protests of the US civil rights era influenced the national political agenda via the media coverage they received.

How Corporate Philanthropy Buys Influence

Companies use charitable giving to disguise political lobbying.