Program Related Investments

From Ideas to Practice, Pilots to Strategy Practical Solutions and Actionable Insights on How to Do Impact Investing

Michael Drexler and Abigail Noble

Glass Pockets

The Foundation Center

Glass Pockets is an online resource from The Foundation Center that promotes transparency in philanthropic foundations. The site gives the public access to the published finnancial records of major foundations, providing profiles of major organizations and links to their transparency profiles.

Best to Invest? A Funder's Guide to Social Investment

Abigail Rotheroe, Sarah Hedley, Plum Lomax and Iona Joy

Catalyzing Networks for Social Change : A Funder's Guide

Diana Scearce

The Rise of Community Wealth Building Institutions

Oct 16th, 2013

More people are turning to economic alternatives in which new wealth is built collectively and from the bottom up

Crossposted from Policy Network, and later published on the London School of Economics website, this blog is part of a debate event hosted by Policy Network in London, UK, that was reviewed in OurKingdom by grassroots activist James Doran:

Five years after the financial crisis economic inequality in the United States is spiraling to levels not seen since the Gilded Age. While most Americans are experiencing a recovery-less recovery, the top one per cent of earners last year claimed 19.3 per cent of household income, their largest share since 1928. Moreover, income distribution looks positively egalitarian when compared to wealth ownership.

Creating a Community Investment Fund: A Local Food Approach

Michael H. Shuman, Jenny Kassan, Jeff Rosen and Tom Wilits

Measuring Social Return on Investment for Community Schools: A Case Study

Laura Martinez and Cheryl D. Hayes

Cracking the Network Code: Four Principles for Grantmakers

Jane Wei-Skillern, Nora Silver and Eric Heitz

What If?: The Art of Scenario Thinking for Nonprofits

Diana Scearce and Katherine Fulton

Funding Learning Networks for Community Impact: Lessons from the Capacity Building Fund

Ann Philbin and Deb Linnell

Strategic Co-funding: An approach for expanded impact

Cynthia Gair

Building a Strategic Learning and Evaluation System for Your Organization

Hallie Preskill and Katelyn Mack

Assessing Impact at Anchor Institutions

Sep 10th, 2013

New anchor dashboard identifies 12 priority areas and indicators

Crossposted from Rooflines: The Shelterforce Blog

This week, The Democracy Collaborative is releasing a new paper to create a framework for measuring the effectiveness of university and hospital efforts to partner with and improve conditions in surrounding communities. Our goal is to help institutions reflect and assess broadly the long-term impact of their anchor-mission activities, and particularly the extent to which they may benefit low-income children, families and communities.

Democracy Collaborative Offers Paid Internship

Aug 6th, 2013

Work with us on newsletters and community-wealth.org

We are pleased to announce a new intern position at The Democracy Collaborative that will focus on the Community-Wealth.org newsletter and adding web content. For further details, please see the position description below. Remember to submit your applications by August 30!

Done Right, Eliminating Food Deserts Result in Community Oases

May 1st, 2013

Building community wealth every step of the way

Pogue’s Run Grocer Mural, an initiative of the Indy Food Co-op. © Indy Food Co-op

Building healthy, vibrant and sustainable communities requires more than “bottom up” solutions. The importance of community ownership to ensure that projects that start at the bottom result in lasting community wealth for the people involved is often missing from the discussion. The local foods movement provides examples that illustrate the importance of this ownership principle in practice.

Collective Impact for Opportunity Youth

Mimi Corcoran, Fay Hanleybrown, Adria Steinberg and Kate Tallant

Evaluating Social Innovation

Hallie Preskill and Tanya Beer

Social Sector Innovation Funds: Lessons Learned and Recommendations

Shivam Mallick Shah and Michele Jolin

Use It or Lose It: Frittering Away Civil Society’s Strategic Advantage

Ruth McCambridge

Nonprofit Quarterly

The Jessie Ball duPont Fund

http://www.dupontfund.org/

The Jessie Ball duPont Fund is a national foundation based in Jacksonville that serves approximately 330 organizations, selected based on Mrs. DuPont’s will. Today, the foundation focuses on building the capacity of eligible organizations, expanding access and creating opportunity, and strengthening the nonprofit sector. The foundation, founded in 1977, now holds more than $281 million in assets, and, in 2010, it granted more than $12.5 million. Awarding over $200 million in grants since its founding, the foundation has contributed to a variety of place-based investments, including supporting LISC Jacksonville, by partnering with The Community Foundation, and investing an additional $750,000 in its comprehensive neighborhood revitalization initiative in Duval County. In 2011, the foundation also made a $2 million program-related investment to the Florida Community Loan Fund to increase the inventory of affordable rental housing and grow the capacity of organizations that provide affordable rental housing locally.

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