Nuts & Bolts: The Uses & Limits of Data as We Work in the San Joaquin Valley
In this post, we discuss our efforts to better integrate data as we try to understand the opportunities and challenges facing the San Joaquin Valley.
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Heron's 2019 Presidential Podcast
In 2018, Dana Bezerra became the new president of Heron. However, Dana has been at Heron for 13 years in total, starting as a program officer in 2006. She’s seen Heron grow and change and is now sharing her guidance, leadership, and lessons learned as we focus on the intersection of communities and capital markets. In this podcast episode, we ask Dana to reflect on her first year as president, and share what’s next for Heron.
General Operating Support: The Effective Thing to Do; The Respectful Thing to Do
General operating support can provide nonprofit organizations with the flexibility to plan, innovate, and pivot in their work. So, why don’t more foundations provide general operating support as part of their grantmaking strategies? In this post, we chat with Mary Jo Mullan, a former and longtime member of the Heron team, about the importance of general operating support.
Questions We’re Asking This Week: San Joaquin Valley Edition
We’re launching a new series called “Questions We’re Asking This Week” that catalogs some of the inquiries we’re chasing in order to help people and communities help themselves out of poverty.
Questions We're Asking this Week: Pensions & Community Prosperity
Pension liabilities can be a detriment to community prosperity, while pension funds can be a source of power for workers. With those dynamics in mind, here are a few pension-related questions we’re asking this week.
Mar 11, 2017
In Case You Missed It: The Poverty Healthcare Debate
In this issue, vilifying the poor over health care, the bad news on inequality, the good news on wages, and the trouble with the post-election giving surge.
Mar 4, 2017
In Case You Missed It: At the Expense of the People
In this issue, Trump takes on Congress, globalism vs nationalism, pitting the old against the young, poverty and brain development, and ETFs go biblical.
Feb 25, 2017
In Case You Missed It: The Fragile American Safety Net
In this issue, our miserable 21st Century, manufacturing in America, the junk food stamp debate, shrinking Medicaid and market making in impact investing.
Feb 18, 2017
In Case You Missed It: An American Dream Deferred
In this issue, revisiting the racial wealth gap, taxing robots, reducing the charitable deduction and Obama's social innovation experiment.
Feb 11, 2017
In Case You Missed It: The Wall Street Rules Dilemma
In this issue, a new video on poverty and opportunity, Trump and the universal basic income, the Wall Street rules rollback, and impact investing in a volatile age.
Feb 4, 2017
In Case You Missed It: Trading in on Work
In this issue, old is new in trade policy, jobs men don't like, Radiolab talks poverty, AEI proposes a safety net overhaul, and feature on impact investors ring in 2017.
Jan 28, 2017
In Case You Missed It: Leading with Purpose
In this issue, your brain on poverty, social mobility's debt dependence, expanding philanthropy's risk appetite and the inequality worries of foundations leaders.
Jan 21, 2017
In Case You Missed It: Tapping into America's Neighborhood
In this issue, Trump and economic anxiety, Amazon and gig economy carnage, the women reforming corporate governance, and the "wolves of Wall Street" as regulators.
Jan 15, 2017
In Case You Missed It: The Impoverishing Healthcare Debate
In this issue, the implications of repealing the ACA and what replacement might look like, a look back at Martin Luther King and poverty, and philanthropy trends for 2017.
Jan 7, 2017
In Case You Missed It: 2016's Separate But Equally Disempowered
In this issue, more on the white working class, why inequality isn't inevitable, truth and lies about jobs, the urban rural divide and the fall of "third way" economics.