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UNDP and Blockchain for Good Alliance Launch Cybersecurity Programme
As public institutions rely more on digital systems, including blockchain technology, cybersecurity is critical to protecting services, public funds and trust.
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- Technology
- Region
- Global
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Press Release: The Coca-Cola Foundation, World Vision, and VisionFund Announce Launch of Shock-Responsive Inclusive Market Systems (SIMS) Initiative in Malawi and Zambia
SIMS is being launched against the backdrop of the 2024 El Niño-induced drought, which prompted both Malawi and Zambia to declare national disasters and left millions of people facing food insecurity across the region.
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- Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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World Vision and VisionFund Insurance Advance Climate Protection for Vulnerable Communities in the Amazon Basin
"Working with Global Parametrics and co-financed by the InsuResilience Solutions Fund, VisionFund will design a two-peril parametric meso-insurance for World Vision offices in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia and Peru as part of the wider Amazon Basin Initiative."
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- Environment
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- Latin America
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Right-Sizing IMM: Five Ways Impact Measurement and Management Can Work for Enterprises — Not Just Investors
Impact measurement and management (IMM) systems too often reward compliance over impact, extracting more than they’ve given back. According to Julia Mensink at Acumen and Heather Esper at the William Davidson Institute, impact data tends to be focused mainly on satisfying investors’ requirements, not informing investees' decisions — and gathering it often ends up consuming enterprises' time and resources and constraining their ability to create the impact they’re expected to measure. They share learnings from a gathering of IMM experts earlier this year, highlighting several ways investors, investees and IMM professionals can right-size these practices, aligning them with enterprises' actual decisions and integrating them into their core operations.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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Press Release: New Global Survey from Kiva by The Harris Poll Finds an Affordability Crisis Is Putting Everyday Giving to the Test
These findings reflect broader headwinds tracked by Giving USA, which found that even as total charitable giving reached a record $617.20 billion, giving by individuals has fallen from roughly 80% of total contributions in past decades to just 64% today, as everyday households face mounting cost-of-living pressures.
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- Finance
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- Global
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Parked Capital is a Missed Opportunity: Why Donor-Advised Funds Should be Funding Climate Businesses Now
If philanthropic capital is waiting for a rainy day to address climate change, it’s already pouring. But according to Adam Fraser at Terraset, instead of supporting solutions to this challenge, a significant source of funding is either lying dormant — or actively contributing to the problem. As he explains, Donor-Advised Funds (DAFs) are sitting on over $327 billion in capital: money that was already gifted to a charitable entity and earmarked for the public good. That money is invested in the market, growing tax-free, and sometimes even financing high-emission sectors like the fossil fuel industry, while innovative startups struggle to fund carbon removal and other climate solutions. He explores the sort of impact this funding could make if it were mobilized, and argues that the time to deploy it is now.
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- Energy, Environment, Investing
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Moving Beyond Grants: How NGOs Can Diversify Toward Earned Revenue, and How Funders Can Support That Transition
The development sector has reached an increasingly firm consensus that it needs to depend less on grants as the aid landscape evolves, and strategies to generate earned revenue have emerged as a key solution for NGOs seeking to remain financially sustainable. But as Toon Driesen at the Enabel Innovation Hub and Alex Losneanu and Pritika Kasliwal at Brink explain, commercializing innovative solutions to complex societal issues typically costs money before it makes money, and early funding support often falls away before a business model can scale. They share research that reveals what NGOs must do differently to execute the transition to an earned revenue model, and explore how funders can help them implement these changes.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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Against Malaria Foundation Receives US $276 Million Grant from GiveWell
Approximately 90 million nets will be funded to protect 160 million when they sleep at night from the bites of malaria-carrying mosquitoes, that would otherwise cause severe illness or worse.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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