A head for insurance. A heart for nonprofits.
In the latest article on Blue Avocado, Nonprofits Insurance Alliance Founder, President and CEO Pamela Davis proposes that nonprofits already possess the community-benefit approach necessary for our economic system to provide the systemic change in consciousness necessary to address climate change
Nonprofits Insurance Alliance was the first insurance company to divest itself of fossil fuel-related investments in 2016. Ultimately, the claim of being first doesn’t matter. What matters is doing the right thing now. We hope other insurers follow the example and approach climate change as the existential crisis it is.
35 years ago, I wrote a thesis that changed my life and helped many nonprofits. It also has implications for the current insurance crisis.
In a field study, economists Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan found that job applicants with white-sounding names received 50% more calls for interviews than candidates with African-American names. Forty-five percent of American workers surve …