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Strong Foundations: Financial Security Starts with Affordable, Stable Housing – A Research Primer

Strong Foundations Housing Report
Published: 
01/2020
One in three US households—nearly 100 million people—struggle ... acute for virtually all low-income families and for the 1 in 4 renters who spend 50% or more of their income on ... its effects ripple throughout our communities and economy. In 2019, Aspen Institute’s Expanding Prosperity Impact ...
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ReportResearch
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Affordable Housing/Housing and Shelter

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

Published: 
10/2018

An increasing number of foundations are embracing racial equity/equity as a core value, and it is influencing how they see themselves and operate. However, evaluation has for the most part remained untouched. Knowing how race/racism has influenced both, philanthropy and evaluation, deepens our understanding of how philanthropic evaluation practice may unintentionally reinforce racism. Equitable evaluation shifts the current evaluation paradigm to one that centers equity/racial equity, so that it is more aligned with the values and intentions of current day philanthropic endeavors.

Guidance for Place-Based Funders to Address Political Violence Before and After the 2020 Election

Democracy Fund
Published: 
10/2020
... of political violence around the United States election in 2020. Research on international violence and peacebuilding ... designed to help local place-based funders invest quickly in leaders and organizations who’ve been preparing for this ... opportunities to support work like this nationally or in your region contact Nadia Firozvi ( ...
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Article
Funding Area 
Civil Rights, Social Action & Advocacy

COVID-19: Nelson Foundation's Grantee Communications

Published: 
04/2020
... rely on your foundation's transparency and timeliness in response. Direct and open lines of communication are ...

Race influences professional investors’ financial judgments

Published: 
05/2019
... asset allocators to determine whether there are biases in their evaluations of funds led by people of color, and, if ... of a 1-page summary of the fund’s performance his- tory, in which we manipulated the race of the managing partner ... tors did not express a high likelihood of investing in these teams. These results suggest first that ...

"A Goal of Justice." Behind a Push for Racial Equity in Arts Funding

Published: 
12/2017
... for arts & culture, served on the board of Grantmakers in the Arts, and was the chair of its Thought Leader Forum on ... for the benefit of black people." Hillombo partners with community development organizations that are "building power by engaging community in planning and strategy," and ...
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Article
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Arts & CultureDiversitySocial Justice
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Equity and Social Justice

Diversity of Asset Managers in Philanthropy

Diversity of Asset Managers in Philanthropy
Published: 
02/2020
... asset managers when investing its endowment. In response to frequent questions from a variety of ... endowment investments managed by investment firms based in the United States, amounting to $63.95 billion in invested assets (“Analyzed AUM”). The study found: ...

2018 Diversity Among Philanthropic Professionals Report

Published: 
11/2019
In 2018, Funders for LGBTQ Issues set out to survey the board and staff of foundations in order to identify how many LGBTQ people worked in philanthropy. In the process, the organization realized ...

Philadelphia Impact Investment Landscape Scan

Philadelphia Impact Investment Scan Exec Summary
Published: 
05/2019
In July 2018, Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia ... Barra Foundation to assess the impact investing ecosystem in the Philadelphia area. Through a series of interviews, ... Urbane Development gathered input from key stakeholders in the Philadelphia region who are involved (or want to be ...

Pensions & Investments: It's racial bias, not merely an issue of access

Published: 
08/2019
By DANIELLE WALKER | New research pokes holes in the theory that the lack of diversity in asset management is primarily a pipeline problem, caused ... by either a lack of access or outreach to minority talent in the field, and that Black fund managers must overcome ...
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Article
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Board/TrusteesConsultants/Advisors
Areas of Focus 
Equity and Social Justice

The Movement for Immigrant Justice in 2021: Field Priorities, Strategies, and Needs

Published: 
12/2020
... seeker communities, the transition to a new administration in 2021 will not automatically result in bold new immigration reform or even a comprehensive ... policy and infrastructure agenda for supporting the community.  Movement leaders are eager to pivot from crisis ...

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