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As Money Moves Offshore, New Questions About How Foundations Invest Their Assets
Throughout philanthropy’s history, it’s drawn intermittent waves of intense criticism, and it certainly feels like we’re heading into one now. Outrage over wealth accumulation, an unbridled tech industry, money in politics and more is inspiring healthy scrutiny from many directions (including us).
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- philanthropy, research
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The Age of Crypto-Giving: Why Cryptocurrency Will Become an Important Driver of Nonprofit Donations
In the U.S. alone, total charitable donations rose to a new high of $410 billion in 2017. Meanwhile, there are now more than 1,600 unique cryptocurrency tokens or coins spread across the world, with an aggregate value of over $100 billion dollars. According to Engiven CEO James Lawrence, the alignment of charitable giving with emerging cryptocurrency technologies represents "one of the most important fundraising opportunities for nonprofit growth since the adoption of electronic giving." He explains why in this thought-provoking post.
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- Finance, Technology
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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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- ESG, impact investing, philanthropy
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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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- ESG, impact investing, philanthropy
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