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Rockefeller Assists Global Resilience Partnership With New Ideas In Flood Risk Management

Release Date:

05/24/2016

Rockefeller Assists Global Resilience Partnership With New Ideas In Flood Risk ... Zurich Insurance Group has teamed up with the Global Resilience Partnership, a public-private initiative ... Swedish development...

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Environment and Climate Change

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The Rockefeller Foundation

A Letter from Ronna Brown

Release Date:

04/15/2020

... Page . Some highlights include: Information on how funders are responding, including a web form you can fill ... Fears, Answering Questions : Still in development, this webinar will tackle concerns around...

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President's Message

PNY News

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Disaster Relief

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Ford Foundation and Bloomberg Philanthropies Join Governments and Private Funders to Announce Historic Pledge at COP26 in support of Indigenous Peoples and local communities

Release Date:

11/01/2021

... and Bloomberg Philanthropies Join Governments and Private Funders to Announce Historic Pledge at COP26 in support of ... the US, and the Netherlands, in partnership with 17 funders , pledged today to invest US$...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Ford Foundation

Bloomberg Philanthropies

Why Impact Investing Is An Emerging Paradigm Shift In Philanthropy

Release Date:

07/30/2013

... by Amy Bell, Executive Director and Head of Principal Investments for JPMorgan Chase’s Social Finance business ...

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Impact Investing

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Ford Foundation Supports Progress on Impact Investing

Release Date:

10/13/2017

Ford Foundation supports an experimental rating process aimed to hold large fund managers acuntable for delivering on wide range of impacts.

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Surdna Launches $18M Program Related Investment Fund

Release Date:

04/15/2014

... sustainable communities in the United States. First two investments : to expand regional food hubs; provide upfront ...

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Surdna Foundation

It’s Time to Cut Through the Hype of Impact Investing

Release Date:

08/19/2013

... nonprofit leaders are eagerly looking for help from impact investments —deals that achieve a measurable social and ...

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Impact Investing

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F.B. Heron Foundation

'Investment Club' of Foundations Pays Off for Nonprofits

Release Date:

06/05/2015

SeaChange Capital Partners manages the New York Pooled PRI Fund, which includes investments from Altman, Heckscher and the Thompson Family Foundation.

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Community Development

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Workforce Development

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Altman Foundation

The Heckscher Foundation for Children

SeaChange Capital Partners

Ford to Dedicate $1B of Endowment to Mission Related Investments

Release Date:

04/05/2017

Ford to Dedicate $1B of Endowment to Mission Related Investments Ford Foundation announces that its Board of ... endowment, phased in over ten years, for mission-related investments (MRIs).   For the better part...

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Economic Security

Leveraging the Power of Foundations: An Analysis of Program-Related Investments

Publication date:

05/2013

... of key trends in foundation engagement in program-related investments between 2000 and 2010 finds that there is ... the Power of Foundations: An Analysis of Program-Related Investments ...

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Report

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Finance & Asset Management

Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

JPMorgan Chase’s Investment in Detroit to Reach $150 Million

Release Date:

05/11/2017

The pace of Detroit’s progress allowed the firm to accelerate initial $100 million investment and make valuable impact on the city’s recovery. Partnerships between civic, business, and nonprofit leaders as well as improving economic conditions in...

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Community Development

Workforce Development

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JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Behind the Billion: The Ford Foundation and Mission-Related Investments

Release Date:

04/13/2017

Behind the Billion: The Ford Foundation and Mission-Related Investments Xavier de Souza Briggs , the foundation’s vice ... discusses the foundation's work on mission-related investments with Lenora Suki ,...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Ford Foundation

Bloomberg [Corporate]

Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation

Q&A: Judith Rodin Makes An Impact On Investing And Giving

Release Date:

11/02/2016

How important is Judith Rodin? Ask one of the 20,000 New York public school students who got to see the Broadway hit "Hamilton" because of her and they might say she is life-changing.

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Young Men of Color Initiative Details Its Investments

Release Date:

03/03/2015

Young Men of Color Initiative Details Its Investments Member institutions of the Executives' ... programmatic efforts are chronicled in a new report titled Investments for Change, which provides selected...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Community Development

Social Justice

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Open Society Foundations

The Atlantic Philanthropies

NYC Social Impact Investment Fails to Meet Goal

Release Date:

07/06/2015

The country's first social impact bond program was initially funded by Bloomberg and Goldman Sachs.

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Impact Investing

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Goldman Sachs

Rockefeller Foundation To Invest $20M To Electrify Rural India

Release Date:

08/21/2018

The Rockefeller Foundation will invest $20 million in India over the next three years to increase energy access in the country’s rural areas, according to Vice President Christine Heenan.

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International/Foreign Affairs

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Investing for Impact: Indirect Costs Are Essential for Success

Publication date:

10/2013

This report addresses how governments that hire charitable nonprofits to deliver services and then reimburse them for less than reasonable indirect costs undermine the ability of nonprofits to deliver high-quality services.