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Placed-Based Impact Investing: Three Briefs for Practitioners

Published: 
06/2019
... the social and economic returns of their place-based impact investments, foundations, CDFIs, private investors, ... a set of three practitioner briefs designed to focus on elements of place-based impact investing that have ... opportunities and capacities, and deploying capital on the ground together through impact investing ...

Diversity of Asset Managers in Philanthropy

Diversity of Asset Managers in Philanthropy
Published: 
02/2020

For a decade, Knight Foundation has been intentional about identifying high quality, diversely-owned asset managers when investing its endowment. In response to frequent questions from a variety of stakeholders into the performance of the charitable sector regarding this issue — the questions arising from the general lack of data — Knight Foundation asked Global Economics Group to assess the representation of diverse asset managers among foundations.

The Case for Funding Black-Led Social Change: Case Statement

Published: 
03/2017
... by the Black Social Change Funders Network (BSCFN) , an initiative forged by the leadership of ABFE: A ... foundations over the next five years, with emphasis on strengthening the infrastructure for Black-led social ... the Data Says to Move from Rhetoric to Action (December 2019). The Case for Funding Black-Led Social Change: Case ...

Grantmaking with a Racial Justice Lens: A Practice Guide

Published: 
11/2019
... justice activists first, and then of funders working on change in their institutions, to identify best practices ... toward racial justice. This guide will be most useful to an audience of grantmakers who have already made or are close to making racial equity commitments, and who want to drive their ...

Deciding Together: Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking

Published: 
10/2018
... in participatory grantmaking and shifting decision-making power to the very communities impacted by funding ...

The Case for Funding Black-Led Social Change: Redlining by Another Name: What the Data Says to Move from Rhetoric to Action

Published: 
12/2019
... two purposes. The first was to build a body of information on the health and well-being of existing Black social change ... and serving Black communities for greater efficiency and impact? This report will focus on the latter two critical questions.  The Case for Funding ...

2018 Diversity Among Philanthropic Professionals Report

Published: 
11/2019
... In the process, the organization realized that it had an opportunity to not only ask about sexual orientation and ...

What’s Race Got to Do With It? Equity and Philanthropic Evaluation Practice

Published: 
10/2018
An increasing number of foundations are embracing racial ...