Fun With Books: Helping Parents Read to Their Kids
Literacy Partners helps parents improve their English-language reading skills along with their children’s, but the nonprofit’s leaders say the political climate for immigrants is muting its impact.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Foster-Care Veteran Seeks to Use Tech to Ease Transition to Adult Life
Through his nonprofit, Think of Us, Sixto Cancel is testing a mobile app designed to coach young people aging out of their foster homes how to navigate housing, employment, and more.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Heron Foundation Chief Will Move to a New Position
Clara Miller, who oversaw the grant maker’s pioneering impact-investment strategy, will become president emerita on December 31.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Commercial giants like Goldman Sachs and BlackRock are the big players in a burgeoning field, but philanthropic institutions increasingly view their investments as tools to tackle the world’s toughest problems.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
What Happens to Giving as Impact Investing Grows?
Some donors say the strategy is changing how they give in powerful ways; others doubt that it can displace traditional philanthropy, especially with causes like feeding the hungry.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Building the Market for Impact Investments
Charities and foundations are tackling gaps in impact investing’s infrastructure to help fulfill the field’s promise of social and environmental change.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Impact-Investing Pioneers Take Stock
For more than a decade, the Heron and Northwest Area foundations have invested their endowments with the goal of spurring social good. They’re drawing on lessons learned to tweak their approaches.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
2 New Marketplaces Bring Impact Investors and Products Together
The services aim to expand mission investing by helping funds and enterprises raise capital faster and more efficiently.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Rebuilding Lives by Tearing Down Old Houses
An enterprise of Baltimore charity Humanim, Details Deconstruction provides job skills and fair wages for people with histories of incarceration, addiction, and other problems and generates revenue for the parent organization’s programs.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Skoll Foundation CEO Plans to Step Down
After 16 years at the helm, Sally Osberg will become senior adviser to Jeff Skoll, the former president of eBay who created the fund, and his social-purpose businesses.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor