“Brandon Williams, George Floyd’s nephew,” Lorie Shaull If we want to reduce racial economic disparities, we must change our economic development playbook from small and scattered investments to a comprehensive strategy offering wealth-building tools in every ALANA (African, Latinx, Asian, and Native American) community. Some of these tools do not cost anything, while others require
“no yes maybe,” Sean Salmon In addition to grants, foundations have been increasingly using Program Related Investments, or PRIs, to support nonprofits. PRIs can be a powerful tool to support foundation and nonprofit missions, but they only fit some projects. Understanding their value and uses can be useful for both foundations and nonprofits. For foundations,
“Barbican Loophole,” Nick Richards Two weeks ago, President Joe Biden introduced an eight-year, $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan in Congress. Polling shows his plan is hugely popular. Why? Because the needs—clean water, care infrastructure, broadband, and so on—are so obvious. Biden may employ the language of transformation, but much of what is on the docket is
The growth of any nonprofit requires the constant evaluation of where their untapped potential resources lie. A famous demonstration of this in action concerns McDonald’s. Their original business plan relied solely on taking a cut of each franchise’s profits, until a sharp-eyed accountant highlighted that their greatest resource was, in fact, real estate. Buying the square
Poet, NPQ contributor, and Edge Leadership member Anastasia Tomkin reads her poem, “Please don’t tell me that there isn’t a God,” from her beautiful collection, Delusions of Grandeur. “Poetry is an ancient form of self-expression that benefits the poet as much as the audience. There is something truly magical about relating to someone else’s vulnerability and candor,
