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A Look at Endowments and Responsible Investing
The April 2015 Commonfund Study of Responsible Investing analyzes policies, practices and attitudes with respect to responsible investing among 200 U.S. colleges and universities of various sizes. The study included 123 private and 77 public institutions who have made a commitment or are considering a commitment to responsible investing. These educational institutions altogether have more than $88.8 billion in endowment assets as of June 30, 2014.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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PRESS RELEASE: Financial Professionals Offering Fossil-Fuel-Free Portfolios Nearly Doubled From 2013 To 2015
The number of investment professionals in the U.S. offering fossil fuel-free portfolios to investors nearly doubled—jumping from 22 percent to 42 percent of those polled—from 2013 to 2015.
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- Energy, Environment
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‘A Mark of Pride, Not Shame’: Momentum and challenges in the ethical supply chain movement, two years after the Rana Plaza tragedy
The Rana Plaza garment factory collapsed two years ago today, killing over 1,130 workers. The tragedy has added new urgency to the movement to force major brands to consider the ethical practices of their sourcing. Aarong, one of Bangladesh’s largest fashion retail chains, discusses signs of momentum for the movement, and the challenges of monitoring compliance to ethical sourcing principles.
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- Environment
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OPINION: Where the Hell Is All the Climate Funding?
Less than 2 percent of all philanthropic dollars go to fighting the existential threat of climate change, and much of it comes from just a handful of funders. Where is all the money?
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- Environment
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- philanthropy
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On Earth Day, a Good Time to Celebrate Wangari Maathai Vision
Before she passed on, the Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai left an enduring legacy. The Green Belt Movement, a grassroots organisation she founded to eradicate poverty through environmental conservation, reached a significant milestone: planting over 50 million trees in Africa. But in spite of that incredible achievement, her life’s work was more about human regeneration.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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Taking Technology to the Last Mile: After seeing inequities in rural health care in India, Sujay Santra invented iKure
Sujay Santra discusses why he founded iKure, why he set it up as a social entreprenership and some of the challenges the organization’s encountered in the past five years.
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- Environment, Health Care
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The Cookstove That Could Save 4 Million Lives Per Year
Growing up, Phil Ferranto never thought about how people cooked around the world. He took it for granted, like many of us do, thinking most people had access to some type of stove to feed their families.
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- Energy, Environment, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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‘There is a Democratization of Health Care Going on Around the World’: IPIHD annual forum yields lessons on empowerment, tools and location
The highlight of the 2015 IPIHD annual forum for many attendees was meeting the organization’s new cohort of innovators who are working around the world on problems such as health education for family members of inpatients, menstrual health, emergency training for health workers and new ways of delivering care through community kiosks.
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- Environment, Health Care
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