How Our Community Impact Model Scales for the SDGs
By: Brian Komar and David Averill
We are starting to better comprehend just how much COVID-19 will impact the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We are already seeing significant “SDG setbacks” across a number of SDGs, including goals to reduce poverty (SDG 1), hunger (SDG 2), and violence against women (SDG 5), expand access to quality education (SDG 4), and many more. We are hopeful, however, the pandemic’s long-term effect will accelerate the shift not only to better capitalism, but more enlightened leadership, which would help public and nonprofit agencies demonstrate results and improve outcomes.
Society inevitably will be looking for new models to help bridge the current $2.5 trillion annual SDG financing gap, which represents the difference between the $3.3-$4.5 trillion per year that needs to be mobilized and today’s level of both public and private investment. One model that
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