Social Impact Funds
Description
Impact investing: “investors seeking to do good. Some consider social impact investing a sort of pseudophilanthropy because the returns aren’t always the main goal...
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The fund started by an AOL co-founder and an author has attracted a Who’s Who of American business to invest in the heartland’s entrepreneurs. “... (2017)
Categories: FUNDRAISING, INVESTING, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ENTREPRENEURSHIP Locations: USA
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Data collaboratives are the new public-private partnership. "We live in a quantified era. It is estimated that 90% of the world’s data was gener... (2018)
Categories: IMPACT, NONPROFITS & ACTIVISM, DATA SCIENCE, INTERNET
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Sustainability is the next frontier of activist investing. "On January 6, 2017, JANA Partners, a New York–based activist hedge fund, and the Cal... (2018)
Categories: IMPACT, PARENTING, NONPROFITS & ACTIVISM, BUSINESS, EDUCATION
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"Larry Fink champions the long-term view, but many boards still don’t. BlackRock and other investors are in this for the money, as always. They a... (2018)
Categories: IMPACT, BUSINESS, INVESTING, ENVIRONMENT
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Today, institutional investors and other stakeholders are asking companies to take public stances on a wide array of topics, some of which may be w... (2018)
Categories: IMPACT, BUSINESS, CULTURE, MANAGEMENT
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Bezos's fund will pen grants to scientists, activists and other organizations in their efforts to "preserve and protect the natural world." (2020)
Categories: GLOBAL WARMING, PHILANTHROPY, IMPACT, ENVIRONMENT
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The image of the traditional billionaire, surrounded by luxury and oblivious to what is happening on the planet, is beginning to be a thing of the ... (2019)
Categories: IMPACT, INVESTING, ENTREPRENEURSHIP
