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PRESS RELEASE: Agora Fund Will Bring Rigor of Investing to Philanthropy
Innovative new social enterprise will work with donors and nonprofits to apply the rigor, transparency and ease of a for-profit investment platform to the world of charitable giving.
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- Impact Assessment
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Blurring the Boundaries: How impact investing is shifting paradigms in the public, philanthropic and nonprofit sectors
As impact investing has grown, it has begun to reshape traditional approaches to financing socially focused initiatives – sometimes to the point where paradigms start to shift. In part two of his series on new frontiers in impact investing, William Burckart discusses the implications of these changes for the public, philanthropic and nonprofit sectors.
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- Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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Rational Exuberance: The momentum in impact investing is real – but so is the need for clarity about the changes (and challenges) underway
In spite of considerable progress in impact investing— and the staggering exuberance that’s been associated with it since it burst onto the stage— closer inspection reveals cause for serious concern in the sector. Bill Burckart details these challenges in the first post in a three-part series on the current state of impact investing, as it struggles to take the next step.
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- Education, Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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Facebook adds button designed to make it easier for users to donate to charities battling Ebola
Facebook is stepping up its efforts to fight Ebola by adding a button designed to make it easier for its users to donate to charities battling the disease.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- philanthropy
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Crowdfunding Global Health
According to Wikipedia, crowdfunding is “the practice of funding a project or venture by raising many small amounts of money from a large number of people, typically via the Internet”.
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- Health Care
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OPINION: Is social investment bad for the charity sector?
In recent months senior figures in the world of charity have questioned whether social investment is good for the sector. David Ainsworth examines why this new field is facing a backlash.
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- Uncategorized
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- lending, philanthropy
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Dubai entrepreneur’s 100% Mad scheme to give away $1bn
Launching a social enterprise that will revolutionise the way we donate money to charity is a tall order. But the Dubai-based businessman Tariq Qureishy, 50, aims to raise US$1 billion in the next two years, and give the entire amount to charity through his social venture 100% Mad.
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- North Africa & Near East
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- philanthropy
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Global Innovation Fund Receives $200m from Omidyar Network, Governments of Australia, Sweden, UK, US
The Global Innovation Fund (GIF), a UK-based nonprofit, recently announced its launch in the US city of New York. GIF plans to fund “social innovations” brought forward by nonprofit entities as well as for-profit organizations and government.
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- Impact Assessment
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