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Devex Newswire: The World Bank’s Doing Business 2.0

February 20, 2022

Love it or hate it, you have to admire the tenacity of the World Bank’s Doing Business project. The global ranking of countries’ business-friendliness is now slated for a 2023 comeback tour with a new name and a more “balanced” approach.

Endowments — donated pools of money, property, or investments that generate a return — can help sustain nonprofit organizations over the long term. Despite loud calls for funding causes for social change amid a global reckoning with systemic racism, Black-led organizations are significantly less likely to receive philanthropic donations as endowments, according to a research team from nonprofit advisory firm The Bridgespan Group.