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Anchor Collaboratives: Building Bridges With Place-Based Partnerships and Anchor Institutions

... Anchor Collaboratives: Building Bridges with Place-Based Partnerships and Anchor Institutions  discusses the role of anchor institutions and collaboratives in leveraging the power of their economic assets to address ... and partner organizations that have joined to form place-based networks, or anchor collaboratives, to develop, ...
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Report

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
... learn how leaders of Black-led social change organizations in the United States and U.S. Territories describe their ... from a partnership between ABFE and the Hill-Snowdon Foundation . In March of 2017, BSCFN released The Case for ... philanthropic funding goes to Black-led organizations based in these regions? How are institutional philanthropic ...

COVID-19: Nelson Foundation's Grantee Communications

Published: 
04/2020
... most closely with impacted communities rely on your foundation's transparency and timeliness in response. Direct and open lines of communication are ... is critical to their success on the ground. The Nelson Foundation has kindly agreed to share some of their COVID-19 ...

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

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

Published: 
03/2017
... Partnership for Black Communities and the Hill-Snowdon Foundation . The Case for Funding Black-Led Social Change is ... largest foundations is specifically targeted to the Black community. Calling investment in Black-led social change a “moral imperative,” they ...

Impact of COVID-19 on Nonprofits in the Greater Philadelphia Region By Counties Served

Published: 
05/2020
Prepared by the Mayor's Policy Office, City of Philadelphia; Survey conducted March/April, 2020. This ... how COVID-19 is impacting nonprofit organizations in the region. The findings will be used to tailor response efforts to support our nonprofit community and ensure those in greatest need can access ...
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Survey
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COVID-19

Racial Equity and Philanthropy: Disparities in Funding for Leaders of Color Leave Impact on the Table

Racial Equity & Philanthropy
Published: 
06/2020
... teamed up to research the depth of racial inequities in philanthropic funding. Their work revealed two of the ... efforts to help advance social change are rooted in race. One is understanding the role of race in the problems philanthropists are trying to solve. The ...
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Report
Areas of Focus 
Equity and Social Justice

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 ... squarely now. This guide is designed to help local place-based funders invest quickly in leaders and organizations ... been preparing for this moment for years. This guidance is based on the report “Building U.S. Resilience to Political ...
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Article
Funding Area 
Civil Rights, Social Action & Advocacy

Placed-Based Impact Investing: Three Briefs for Practitioners

Published: 
06/2019
... to maximize the social and economic returns of their place-based impact investments, foundations, CDFIs, private ... practitioner briefs designed to focus on elements of place-based impact investing that have surfaced in research and conversations with practitioners as ...

How African-American-Led Organizations Differ from White-Led Organizations: Research Report on African American Nonprofit Organizations in Philadelphia

PAALF Report (2016)
Published: 
04/2016
In 2013, the Philadelphia African American Leadership Forum ... commissioned a study of African American-led nonprofits in Philadelphia. PAALF was interested in understanding whether ... In 2014-2015, Branch Associates, Inc., a Philadelphia-based research and evaluation firm, conducted a survey of ...

Culture, Heritage, and Place: How Media Amplifies Community Narrative

Culture, Heritage, and Place: How Media Amplifies Community Narrative
Published: 
05/2021
This new report commissioned by the Wyncote Foundation profiles eight place-based organizations that use media for cultural expression ... voice. Culture, Heritage, and Place: How Media Amplifies Community Narrative ...

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