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TPG Puts McGlashan on Leave After Charges in College Scandal
The indictment comes at an inopportune time for TPG. The firm planned to start raising money for its second Rise Fund last year.
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- North America
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The MacArthur Foundation is giving away another $100 million gift–and helping others make big bets
After the success of the original 100&Change contest, the foundation is repeating the experiment, and spinning off a competition nonprofit to help other foundations give game-changing sums to promising solutions.
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- Investing
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MacArthur Commits $150 Million to Make Impact Investing Easier for Others
Solving really big problems, like extreme poverty around the world and climate change, will take trillions of dollars, says Rajiv Shah, president of the Rockefeller Foundation. "To bring that kind of capital to bear on the problems we hope to solve, we will need to work closely across philanthropic, public, and private sources of capital."
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- Investing
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Press release: The PepsiCo Foundation Partners with CARE to Tackle Gender Inequality in Agriculture with an $18.2 Million Investment in She Feeds the World
Grant will provide resources and training to 5 million women farmers and their families worldwide to help them increase crop yields and income.
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- Agriculture
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Report: Over 80 percent of social investments in Myanmar are in microfinance
Among the goals of the forum is for AVPN to influence investors’ portfolios more deeply in order to help them increase the impact of their work. During the forum, AVPN also released its Social Investment Landscape in Myanmar Report.
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- Asia Pacific
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A stumbling block to growth trips up companies trying to do good
When established social enterprises do secure funding to support their growth it is not necessarily the end to their woes.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- philanthropy, scale
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Q&A: Bill and Melinda Gates expand on 3 surprises from annual letter
Of the surprises they’ve been confronted with along their journey to philanthropy, the Gates write: “Some worry us. Others inspire us. All of them are prodding us to action. We hope they do the same for you, because that’s how the world gets better.”
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Meet the folk hero of Davos: the writer who told the rich to stop dodging taxes
“It feels like I’m at a firefighters conference and no one’s allowed to speak about water, right?” Bregman said. “Just stop talking about philanthropy and start talking about taxes. … We can invite Bono once more, but we’ve got to be talking about taxes. That’s it. Taxes, taxes, taxes. All the rest is bullshit in my opinion.”
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