Reports & Financials
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Unlocking the ‘Black Box’ in Philanthropy
Over the past year, our team at New Profit worked with the folks at People Rocket, a human-centered design firm, to identify how we could expand our pipeline of eligible organizations advancing economic mobility in America. Through a collaborative and iterative process that engaged leaders across the country, we developed new methods to identify pipeline organizations. These methods ensured we would not miss the community-focused organizations driving powerful impact through proximity that philanthropy has often overlooked. Our collaboration with People Rocket resulted in our pipeline increasing 25-fold, with 2,465 organizations identified, reflecting diversity and inclusivity across all 50 states. We also partnered to develop this report, which is intended to share our learnings and takeaways with the broader philanthropic community to shift practices and build a more equitable and impactful capital market.
In sharing these key takeaways with the larger philanthropic community, we hope to continue learning and unlearning processes for identifying and supporting impactful, innovative, community-driven solutions that advance economic mobility across the United States.
Field Leadership Reports
Deconstructing the Bird Cage: Deconstructing the Bird Cage: How Social Entrepreneurs are Catalyzing Systems Change
This article highlights six social entrepreneurs, and the organizations they lead, that are putting “system impact models” into practice and working day-in-day, day-out to transform the systems that impact the lives of so many people in our nation.
Rock, Water, Pebble: Three Strategies for Scaling Innovations in Education
The complexity of schools – and therefore the complexity of changing them – has big implications for how we introduce and implement new innovations into school systems. If we think of education systems as geological formations, there are three strategies for scaling innovations: the Rock Strategy, the Water Strategy, and the Pebble Strategy.
Picket Signs and Shovels – Lessons on Parent Power and Systems Change from Umm al-Fahm, Israel
In the wake of COVID-19, communities and systems around the world will be renegotiating their relationships, including parents and their education systems. What will these new relationships look like? In this essay, New Profit shares the story of the Arab-Israeli city of Umm al-Fahm, where parents and educators have taken a difficult but transformative journey to navigate a shift in mindsets, relationships, and then power.
The State of Democracy Entrepreneurship: Insights from New Profit’s Civic Lab
This 2021 report highlights the unique set of challenges democracy entrepreneurs (particularly women of color) face and the role philanthropy can play in removing barriers for proximate leaders.
