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George Soros to Give $500 Million to Migrant, Refugee Businesses
George Soros is pumping $500 million into migrant- and refugee-founded businesses and other initiatives, the billionaire investor announced Tuesday, noting that his hope is other investors will follow suit.
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Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan Pledge $3 Billion to Fighting Disease
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, last year said they would give 99 percent of their Facebook shares to charitable causes. Now they are putting a large chunk of that money to work.
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Clinton Foundation Initiative to Become Independent if Hillary Wins
The largest arm of the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation will spin off into an independent organization if Hillary Clinton is elected president, the charity said Wednesday in the latest effort by the foundation and the campaign to alleviate concerns about potential conflicts of interest.
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- Health Care
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Nonprofits Fret as Clinton Foundation Plans to Transfer Programs
Clinton Foundation President Donna Shalala said Wednesday that the organization has largely solidified plans to terminate, reconstitute, or hand off the bulk of its international programs if Hillary Clinton is elected president. It would be a major undertaking — the political context is without precedent, for starters — and has some nonprofit leaders worried.
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- Impact Assessment
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Ratan Tata, Nandan Nilekani to Start Microfinance Company
Mumbai: Ratan Tata, chairman emeritus of Tata Sons, Vijay Kelkar, former finance secretary and chairman of the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, and Nandan Nilekani, co-founder of Infosys Ltd and the architect of Aadhaar, are joining hands to start a microfinance institution (MFI).
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Zuckerberg Sells $95 Million In Facebook Stock For Philanthropic Organization
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has just sold a huge chunk of stock to fund his recently launched philanthropic initiative, according to a new regulatory filing on Wednesday.
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Impact Investing Comes of Age: ImpactAlpha Rounds up Nine Stories Shaping the Marketplace
Impact investments represent some of the greatest wealth generating opportunities of our time, from the trillions needed to build a clean global energy grid, to the opportunities in delivering essential services to the emerging middle class. Here are nine recent developments that highlight the sector's growing significance, part of ImpactAlpha's ongoing collaboration with NextBillion.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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World’s First Islamic Endowment Crowdfunding Platform Launched
Tun Abdullah Badawi, the former Prime Minister of Malaysia, has launched the Waqf (Islamic Endowment) crowdfunding platform or WaqfWorld. Described as the “worlds first” the new platform was announced at the 12th World Islamic Economic Foundation Forum (WIEF) held in Jakarta this past week The platform was developed in partnership with EthisVentures.com.
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- North Africa & Near East
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