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Blog Archives: January 2024 — December 2024

The Dark History of Redlining Still Impacts Black Communities: We Need Different Solutions.

April 15, 2024
David F. Sand, Community Capital Management
For decades, U.S. financial institutions refused to offer their services in inner-city neighborhoods with predominantly minority populations. Maps had red lines or circles drawn delineating geographies where insurance, mortgage lending, and basic banking were simply not available. Denial of the key ingredients for participation in the modern capital markets led to a self-fulfilling effect that caused neighborhoods to deteriorate and remain underinvested in for generations. There is evidence that the underlying reasons for redlining were ...

Unlocking the Power of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

March 05, 2024
Stephen Heintz, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and Rey Ramsey, Nathan Cummings Foundation
A Fourth Industrial Revolution is well underway, but philanthropy is not poised to fully benefit from the opportunities it has to offer. Innovations like generative AI are highly dependent on the collection, analysis, and sharing of high-quality data — and that’s an area where our sector lags badly. Many foundations collect a wealth of information, but almost all of it lives in internal documents collecting dust. That means missing out on innovations in learning and improvement and squandering one of our sector’s biggest natural advantages: ...

Transparency Is the Bedrock for Impact Measurement

February 28, 2024
Marina Severinovsky, Schroders
Mission-aligned investments have undergone an unprecedented expansion over the past decade. I’ve kept close tabs on this, as Schroders’ Head of Sustainability in North America — representing both Schroders’ and BlueOrchard’s impact investing efforts — and over the course of my 15-year career in the investment industry. Over the years, from the vantage point of the impact investing professionals I work with, one principle has emerged as a cornerstone for ensuring integrity, accountability, and progress for values-aligned investing. That ...

Investing with a Climate Resilient Lens: Dana Lanza in Discussion with Nancy Lindborg and Rip Rapson

February 27, 2024
Dana Lanza, Confluence Philanthropy
Just before world leaders met for COP28, the Biden-Harris Administration hosted the first-ever White House Summit on Building Climate Resilient Communities. A national framework for investing in climate resilience was released, and The Kresge Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and Walton Family Foundation made an unprecedented commitment to building more resilient communities, centering those most adversely impacted by climate change. I recently had the great pleasure of leading a ...

In 2024, Philanthropy Must Step up and Supercharge Climate Action

February 23, 2024
Helen Mountford, ClimateWorks Foundation
2023 was blisteringly hot and earned the distinction of the hottest year on record. Yet, we know last year was not an outlier but rather a trend in the wrong direction, as the intensifying impacts of climate change create devastating consequences for people, communities, and ecosystems worldwide. We are nearly halfway through the decisive decade for climate action, and we are off track in meeting global targets. The good news is there’s never been more progress to build on as we work to course correct. The backlash from the fossil fuel ...

Harnessing the Unique Power of Philanthropy for a Just Transition: Reflections from COP28

January 18, 2024
Leslie Johnston, Laudes Foundation
As we prepare for the whirlwind that is the World Economic Forum in Davos, COP28 feels like ancient history. Its underwhelming outcome may not seem memorable. Critics were also quick to point out the dissonance of COP28 being hosted by one of the top ten oil producers in the world and with the attendance of at least 2,456 oil and gas lobbyists. Yet for me, as the CEO of a private foundation working toward a green, fair, and inclusive economy, COP28 was an important inflection point. Over this past year, we at Laudes Foundation have ...

Philanthropy’s Top-Down Approach Is Undermining Indigenous Movements for Climate Justice

January 15, 2024
Thalia Carroll-Cachimuel, NDN Collective
Indigenous Peoples account for 5% of the global population yet safeguard 80% of the world's biodiversity through traditional ecological knowledge. Meanwhile, the percentage of philanthropic funding we receive is less than 1%, undermining our pivotal role in the climate justice movement. Although the final COP28 agreement was disappointing, the NDN Collective’s delegation to Dubai, which I was a part of, leveraged this opportunity to organize with other Indigenous people, build Indigenous power, and ensure that knowledge is shared between our ...

COP 28 – Mixed Results on the World’s Existential Threat

January 10, 2024
Heather Grady, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
COP28 in Dubai, upon entrance, was reminiscent of a world expo, which was unsurprising since it was on the grounds of the Dubai 2020 Expo. But despite the heat and enormous distances between the ends of the official Blue Zone and the less restricted Green Zone – which fortunately were adjacent this year – a phenomenal amount of collaboration and deal-making took place. The meeting’s top takeaway was the conclusion of the first-ever international agreement to tackle fossil fuels as the main driver of climate change. This is the first time ...

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