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Many Small Foundations Wary of Impact Investing
Many small foundations are skeptical of impact investing, with 38 percent saying it will hurt returns, 36 percent saying they lack the capacity to do it, and 32 percent citing worries about risk, according to a new survey. The report from Exponent Philanthropy, which represents foundations with few staff members, also found that 16 percent of respondents participated in "mission or impact investing," and another 11 percent plan to do so in the next few years.
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Jeff Bezos commits $10 billion to fight climate change
Jeff Bezos is throwing his weight — and wealth — behind the fight against climate change months after Amazon employees publicly pressured him and the company to do more to address the issue.
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- Environment
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Family offices lead the way on impact investing
When former investment manager Ron Cordes started a charitable foundation in 2007, he got frustrated because he could only “do good” when he was actively giving the money away to needy causes. Then Cordes discovered impact investing. “We became passionate about sustainability,” he told Reuters.
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Press Release: BlackRock Creates Foundation to Advance a More Inclusive and Sustainable Economy
The BlackRock Foundation will broaden the firm’s philanthropic investments in economic mobility, financial resiliency and sustainability.
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The Surprising Strategy Behind the Gates Foundation’s Success
The Gates Foundation’s giving is enormous — but it still pales in comparison to what governments spend on similar programming.
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Press Release: Acceso, Formerly CGEP, Announces Its Transition Into a New, Independent Entity to Advance Its Work of Lifting Small Producers out of Poverty Through Market-Driven Social Enterprise
Acceso’s current focus remains building, managing, and scaling agribusinesses in Latin America and the Caribbean to sustainably lift farmers and fishers out of poverty, and identifying opportunities for future replication.
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Philanthropy is Shortchanging Climate Change: Here Are Three Ways It Can Boost Its Impact
Climate change is a hot topic in global development, but unfortunately, philanthropy hasn’t followed suit. Despite some notable gifts, climate lags behind other issues when it comes to charitable giving — less than 2% of philanthropic dollars went to climate-related issues in 2015. Nicole Systrom at Sutro Energy Group discusses the reasons for this inertia, and how philanthropists and foundations can turn things around.
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Press Release: Imaginable Futures, New Global Philanthropic Investment Firm Focused on Learning, Spins Off from Omidyar Network
Imaginable Futures will utilize the hybrid funding structure pioneered by Omidyar Network that is part philanthropic foundation and part impact investor. This structure allows Imaginable Futures the financial flexibility to support for-profit entrepreneurs harnessing the power of markets, as well as social and public-sector changemakers innovating to produce scalable change.
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