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Think Small: The Giving Tuesday Strategy With Unexpected Impact
A well-timed donation to a smaller organization is likely to have a greater influence on the nonprofit’s trajectory.
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- nonprofits, philanthropy
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Deep Dive: Two of America’s Wealthiest Philanthropists Are Teaming Up to Protect the Oceans
They’re calling it the Bloomberg-OceanX initiative, and it will coordinate activities, to some extent, between Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Vibrant Oceans Initiative, and Ray and his son Mark Dalio’s OceanX, an exploration and media outfit.
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- Environment, Investing
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This non-profit turns to wealthy, young crypto donors in order to fund social projects
A non-profit called the Social Alpha Foundation is crusading to use cryptocurrency donations as grants. The grants will be awarded to entities dedicated to projects related involving social impact and blockchain education.
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- Technology
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Why I don’t believe in the SDGs (and how impact investing is changing my mind)
The current funding levels for the SDGs don’t come close to what’s needed - impact investing may be the key to closing the gap.
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- Investing
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Why Faith-based Organizations are Shifting to Impact Investing
A 2010 global study of faith institutions showed that 77% of 103 respondents practice impact investing.
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- Investing
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Impact Across All Investments: The role of family offices in building the impact investing ecosystem across the continuum
Over the past several years, we have experimented with and refined our rationale for when it makes sense to deploy what type of capital. While still a work in progress, we believe that playing across the returns continuum expands our opportunities to have scalable impact.
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- Investing
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Press release: OPIC Loan to Kiva Supports Almost 100,000 Microloans to Developing Country Borrowers
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) announced Thursday at the Social Capital Markets conference that its financing to Kiva Microfunds has supported 98,137 microloans to 207,227 small business borrowers, across 30 countries.
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- Press release
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- Investing
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- North America
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Champions of Impact Investing
When the definition is broadened to include public funds seeking to invest in companies with the best environmental, social, and governance, or ESG, practices, the level of assets swells to nearly $9 trillion, according to the latest figures from The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment.
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- Investing
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