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New IRS Rule Likely to Make Impact Investing Easier
The Internal Revenue Service took a major step this week to calm grant makers’ fears about taking risks with impact investments, giving them a green light to commit more of their assets to investments that further their missions.
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Who Said Big Foundations Can’t Change? Four Takeaways from MacArthur’s Makeover
Last week, the foundation announced a major streamlining of its priorities; this week it gave a glimpse of how it would operate by unveiling a “big bet” on curbing climate change. Here are four takeaways from this makeover worth spotlighting, along with one question to ponder.
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Mobile Communications Helping Humanitarian Organizations in Tanzania
Tanzania's rapid uptake of mobile phones and massive investment in rural network coverage is helping disaster and humanitarian organisations in the country speedily disseminate and collect information.
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OPINION: I spent a weekend at Google talking with nerds about charity. I came away … worried.
In the beginning, "effective altruism" was mostly about fighting global poverty. Now it's becoming more and more about funding computer science research to forestall an artificial intelligence–provoked apocalypse.
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In a Push for Financial Inclusion, the eBay Foundation and a Focus on Entrepreneurs
Pierre Omidyar established the eBay Foundation in 1998 with an endowment of pre-IPO eBay stock. The foundation has always been modest in size, which is probably why we haven't written about it before. It had assets of $30 milllion in a recent year, and gives out between $3 million and $5 million annually to a limited set of grantees.
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Three Takeaways From a Massive Tech Grant to Fight Global Poverty
Why is Good Ventures worth watching closely? For a few reasons, all of which are exemplified in its grant to GiveDirectly, its biggest give to date.
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Hewlett Foundation Begins to Distance Itself from Financing Fossil Fuels
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, one of the US’s biggest and most influential foundations, has taken a small step to distance itself from financing fossil fuels.
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Facebook Co-Founder Giving Millions Directly To The Poor, No Strings Attached
GiveDirectly's work is receiving a major boost from Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and his wife Cari Tuna, who on Monday announced a $25 million donation through their foundation Good Ventures.
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