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.
Jul 2, 2016
In Case You Missed It: The Regrexit of the Left Behind
In this issue, why Brexit inequality matters for the United States, middle class politics, private equity's Main St. creep, and the candidates' philanthropy.
Jun 25, 2016
In Case You Missed It: Blessed Be Those Who Look for Impact
In this issue, a look inside a for-profit prison, more debate on safety nets, the Vatican tackles impact investing, and why funders should listen to those they serve.
Jun 11, 2016
In Case You Missed It: The Precariously Possibly Poor
In this issue, the Bilderberg discussion on endangered workers, Adam Smith's views on inequality, a newish Paul Ryan poverty plan, and the "appifying of philanthropy".
Jun 4, 2016
In Case You Missed It: Having Enough to Get the Job Done
In this issue, more debate on universal basic income, robots and general welfare; internet for the people; helping inmates thrive; and a community of equity leaders.
May 28, 2016
In Case You Missed It: The Economy's Bricks and Mortar
In this issue, the right to water, rent and education inequality, corporate global citizens, and $1 billion possibilities for social mobility.
May 21, 2016
In Case You Missed It: The Social Investing New Think
In this issue, why nonprofits work better with overhead funding, the limits of ESG, the luck of success, the decline of unions and the over financialization of capitalism.
May 14, 2016
In Case You Missed It: The Upside-Down Money Universe
In this issue, troubling tax havens, a lending platform built on trust, the silly idea of universal income, the lost government job creator, and when the poor pay more.
May 8, 2016
In Case You Missed It: Finding the New Sharing Quotient
In this issue, discussion of tyranny, demographics today and the working class, the Cases and Buffets discuss philanthropy, and the fight over school funding.
Apr 30, 2016
In Case You Missed It: Losing Our Collective Dreams
In this issue, the politics of the declining middle class, universal basic income, where taxing the wealthy works, the privatization of hope, and issues with collective impact.
Apr 23, 2016
In Case You Missed It: Sign O' These Economic Times
In this issue, middle class financial insecurity, expanding overtime rules, the new robber baron era, a "people's budget" and the tech titans take on DC.