A Note on COVID-19
At Heron, we try to champion people, places, and enterprises who challenge broken conventions and dare to change. In light of COVID-19, we remain committed to our work in communities across the United States.
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A Tale of Two Tools: Financing Housing in the San Joaquin Valley
At Heron, we try to use all the tools in our toolkit to finance organizations who are serving the people and communities we care about. Recently, we used two different tools to provide financing to Self Help Enterprises (SHE), an organization offering homeownership opportunities in the San Joaquin Valley.
Heron Presidential Podcast Ep. 2
We are back with another episode of our Presidential Podcast, where we talk to Dana K. Bezerra about what Heron is doing, thinking, and learning. In this episode, we discuss how Heron is placing community agency and wisdom front and center in the next phase of our work.
Heron Presidential Podcast Ep. 2: The Key Takeaways
We've published another episode of our Presidential Podcast, where we talk to Dana K. Bezerra about what Heron is doing, thinking, and learning. In this blog post, we outline the key takeaways.
Questions We’re Asking This Week: The Maine Edition
Heron has had partnerships in Maine since our early days as a foundation. Now, we're reexamining Maine as a community in transition. Here are some of the inquiries we're chasing.
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.