Insights

Since its inception in 2016, Greenwood Project has exposed high achieving students from Chicago’s south and west sides to career opportunities within the financial industry.

The sisters of the AKA sorority are very intentional about their mission to make a global impact and build an economic legacy, through financial education.  When they reached out to us to support their mission, we were thrilled to be able to lend our expertise, to provide investment educati …

The 2021 Texas power crisis involving three severe winter storms sweeping across the United States, resulted in a massive electricity generation failure in the state of Texas, along with shortages of water, food, and heat.

“Homeschooling during the coronavirus will set back a generation of children. Long breaks are damaging. Virtual learning is erratic. The stakes are high.” – Washington Post – March 2020

COVID-19 caused an economic shockwave that we’ll feel for a long time. Nonprofits, from large global networks to the local churches, have been hit hard, too. In a recent survey of 110 nonprofits, 80% of them said revenue had fallen across the board.

Giving is an important part of our society. It provides us the opportunity to support causes we believe in and make a positive impact. Giving isn’t always about donating money. It can also include volunteering time or donating goods and resources. Here are some examples of the impact:

The so-called “Peanut Butter Manifesto” written by a Yahoo! Executive in 2006 gave us a term that hasn’t worn thin yet. The “Peanut Butter Approach” is a derisive term used in business to describe spreading anything – money, energy, time – too far and too thin to be effective or useful. 

Return on Investment (ROI) is a term you learn about 5 minutes into your first class in business school. Maybe the business model is elegant and the organization is streamlined, but that all begs the question: what is the ROI? How much will we make?

There are many ways to give to nonprofit organizations – from dropping off your old couch at Goodwill to volunteering at the local soup kitchen. When it comes to giving money, there are many personal benefits, both emotional and financial.