The Impact Newsfeed

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

Precarious Scheduling in the Service Sector

Racial inequality exacerbates the oppressive scheduling faced by service sector workers.

Lending in the Shadow of Colonialism

Financial program to help microenterprises in Tanzania fails to take local context into account.

Learning Isn’t an Algorithm

Failure to Disrupt details the promise and pitfalls of technology in the remote classroom.

The Feminist Trailblazer of Black Philanthropy

A new biography of Madam C. J. Walker shows how America’s first self-made female millionaire and Black entrepreneur put philanthropy at the center of her business and life.

Moving Closer to the Problem and Closer to the Solution (Blog)

Lessons learned when PIVOT shifted its center of gravity from the United States to Madagascar by letting go of the majority of its US-based team.

The Union Makes Us Strong

One of the important ways to improve the lives of ordinary Americans is to empower workers and encourage the growth of unions.

SSIR Online, Winter 2021 Issue

Links to all of SSIR's online-only articles published the past three months, with editors' notes about standout pieces on menstrual health, virtual events, and the downside to an overly positive organizational culture.

The Knights of COVID-19

The Swedish model of relying more on civic-minded ethics than on government restrictions has proved to be an outlier worldwide.

Building a New Civic Culture

A new excerpt from Engaged guides us to create a more active citizenship and democracy.

Nonprofits, It’s Time to Own Your Social Media Audience (Blog)

A call for organizations to mitigate the risk of change in the social media landscape by strategically decoupling themselves from platforms that are causing harm.

Collaborating with the ocean is essential to addressing climate change and environmental justice

Collaborating with the ocean is essential to addressing climate change and environmental justice "The potential for the “blue economy” — one that combines more thoughtful stewardship of the ocean’s resources and economic opportunity with a more pragmatic, respectful approach to protecting coastal ecosystems — is vast. But with more than $1.5 trillion in annual economic

Biden-Harris: The work begins

Biden-Harris: The work begins Joel Makower Sat, 11/07/2020 - 10:39 Whatever your political leanings, the election of Joe Biden as President of the United States increases the odds of bringing America back into the community of nations addressing the climate crisis. “Increases the odds” is the key phrase in the above sentence. There’s a lot

A Strategic Plan to Rebalance Power in Fresno for Inclusive and Equitable Growth (Blog)

Establishing a shared understanding of Fresno’s racist policies and practices is key to how The Shared Prosperity Partnership will share power with residents who have been routinely excluded.

Using Six Conceptualizations of Capital to Help Achieve the SDGs (Blog)

By abandoning a narrow understanding of capital as just assets that appear on a balance sheet, businesses and other organizations can harness the value of their people, relationships, knowledge, and processes to move the world closer to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

Rediscovering Fixed Amount Awards (Blog)

With pending changes to the federal grantmaking regulations promoting results-oriented accountability, now is a good time for grant makers and grantees to see how using fixed amount awards can promote performance over compliance.