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New Terrain: In Search of Social Justice Impact Investing
For many institutions, especially those with social justice missions, there are big questions about how exactly to execute a hugely varying set of tactics that get lumped under the same rubric of impact investing.
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- Investing
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Press release: Case Foundation welcomes veteran impact investing leader Lisa Hall to team
Hall will focus on expanding and targeting the Case Foundation’s long-term efforts to drive more investors and capital into the sector and to break down barriers to entry so new investors have the information, learnings and insights they need when seeking both financial and social returns.
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Press release: Opportunity Fund Launches Largest Small Business Impact Fund
Opportunity Fund, a leading Community Development Financial Institution, creates the
largest Small Business Impact Fund in the country that lends directly to underserved
entrepreneurs, helping the California-based organization expand its offerings across the
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- North America
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Why Silicon Valley’s money can’t solve Africa’s tech problems
“Parachute investing is a problem. If you’re investing in early-stage companies from an airplane, you should consider philanthropy"
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- Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Funder Problem: Good Intentions Aren’t Enough
Despite their good intentions, funders are often the biggest barriers to social enterprises or nonprofits achieving impact. Open Road Alliance, a philanthropic initiative that gives emergency grants to impact-focused organizations, gathered and analyzed five years of data about roadblocks faced by over 100 grantees. Nearly half of the problems the group found were caused by funders. Laurie Michaels describes the three categories of funder-related barriers that account for the most frequent challenges – and offers some surprisingly easy fixes.
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- Social Enterprise
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The Gates Foundation’s Education Plans Go International
To find out how the foundation could help, he and others from the foundation spoke to teachers, academics, government officials, and parents in several countries, including Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Uganda.
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- Education
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Could Impact Investing Replace Charitable Giving?
Men are more likely than women to replace charitable giving with impact investing, the Women's Philanthropy Institute reports.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing, philanthropy, research
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These 14 billionaires just promised to give away more than half of their money like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett
Started in 2010 by Bill and Melinda Gates, worth $88.5 billion, and Warren Buffett, worth $74.2 billion, the Giving Pledge is a commitment by wealthy individuals and families to give away more than half of their wealth to causes including including poverty alleviation, refugee aid, disaster relief, global health, education, women and girls' empowerment, medical research, arts and culture, criminal justice reform and environmental sustainability.
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