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What We Learned from the Failure of the Rikers Island Social Impact Bond

Release Date:

08/10/2015

... We Learned from the Failure of the Rikers Island Social Impact Bond An experiment using a Social Impact Bond (SIB) to reduce the rate at which juvenile ... We Learned from the Failure of the Rikers Island...

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Justice Reform

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Goldman Sachs

Podcast: The Surdna Foundation Pivots to Mark 100 Years of Impact

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03/24/2017

Podcast: The Surdna Foundation Pivots to Mark 100 Years of Impact In 1917, businessman John Andrus decided to give away ... $100 million — 10 percent of its endowment — into impact investing In this edition of the...

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The 2017 National Center for Responsive Philanthropy Impact Awards Winners Announced

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09/05/2017

The 2017 National Center for Responsive Philanthropy Impact Awards Winners Announced The 2017 NCRP Impact Awardees have been announced. This year’s awards are ... facing. These grantmakers serve as examples of...

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F.B. Heron Foundation Is Going 'All In' with 100 percent Impact Investments

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02/26/2018

F.B. Heron Foundation Is Going 'All In' with 100 percent Impact Investments Clara Miller, who has headed the F.B. ... for the past three years, wants to take the ultimate impact investing step: to go...

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Cricket Island Foundation Releases New Case Study on the Impact of Small Foundations

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09/18/2018

Cricket Island Foundation Releases New Case Study on the Impact of Small Foundations Liz Sak, Executive Director of ... Island commissioned an assessment to understand the impact of our grantmaking strategy – one...

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A Decade of Impact: Bloomberg LP Improves Energy Efficiency by 45%

Release Date:

04/11/2019

A Decade of Impact : Bloomberg LP Improves Energy Efficiency by 45% ... emissions, according to the company’s 10 th annual Impact Report released today. Bloomberg is on target to ... investment opportunities in the...

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F.B. Heron Foundation Funds Feasibility Study on Impact Investing in Western NY

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02/11/2015

F.B. Heron Foundation Funds Feasibility Study on Impact Investing in Western NY Western New York ... leaders to determine the region's economic potential for impact investing through deals that yield both a...

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Wall Street Not Giving Up On U.S. Social Impact Bonds

Release Date:

07/30/2015

Wall Street Not Giving Up On U.S. Social Impact Bonds Social- impact bonds allow private capital to be funneled into ... met its goals.... Wall Street Not Giving Up On U.S. Social Impact Bonds ...

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Carnegie President Says Humanitarians Can Have Impact on Refugee Crisis

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04/26/2016

Carnegie President Says Humanitarians Can Have Impact on Refugee Crisis A six-country survey commissioned by ... who do intervene on behalf of others can have a tremendous impact ," said Vartan Gregorian,...

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Immigration

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

US Trust Study Finds Small Foundations Honing Strategies for Greater Impact

Release Date:

02/03/2017

... Finds Small Foundations Honing Strategies for Greater Impact Funded by U.S. Trust , the survey also found that ... Finds Small Foundations Honing Strategies for Greater Impact ...

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Commonwealth Fund Report Predicts a Detrimental Impact of an ACA Repeal on Jobs

Release Date:

08/04/2017

Commonwealth Fund Report Predicts a Detrimental Impact of an ACA Repeal on Jobs A report by the Milken ... Commonwealth Fund Report Predicts a Detrimental Impact of an ACA Repeal on Jobs ...

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Health

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funds Research of Human Impact on Indoor Climate

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06/04/2019

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funds Research of Human Impact on Indoor Climate Human impact on the indoor climate is being mapped for the first ... at DTU. Over five weeks, researchers will examine human ...

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14 May 2020

Funder Collaboration: Leveraging Partnerships for Outsized Impact - A Webinar Hosted by NCFP

Thursday, May 14, 2020 -

12:00pm to 1:15pm

... organizations can best work alongside one another to drive impact , discuss the benefits and challenges of effective ... Presenters Olivia Leland , Founder and CEO, Co- Impact Fay Twersky , Vice President,...

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Family Foundation

29 Apr 2015

Measuring Impact: Joys, Monsters and Opportunities in Peacebuilding Monitoring and Evaluation - Webinar

Wednesday, April 29, 2015 -

11:00am to 12:00pm

... peacebuilding field continues to wrestle with questions of impact -how do we know that peacebuilding programs work? How ... peacebuilding, how funders can support better learning and impact in their...

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All Funders

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Evaluation

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22 Sep 2016

Telling Your CSR Impact Story: An Outcomes Framework for a Portfolio of Programs

Thursday, September 22, 2016 -

9:00am to 11:00am

Companies are facing increasing pressure to report on the impact and results of their various corporate citizenship ... employee volunteer hours, etc. – without providing the impact story. In this workshop, we...

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Topic(s)

Finance & Asset Management

Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Transparency

Rita Allen Foundation Study Addresses Impact of Political Advertising

Release Date:

03/20/2015

Rita Allen Foundation Study Addresses Impact of Political Advertising A new study by Philly ... political issues.... Rita Allen Foundation Study Addresses Impact of Political Advertising ...

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Communications/Media

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Rita Allen Foundation

Ford, Rockefeller and Others Supporting NFF Knowledge-Dissemination Effort on Impact Investing

Release Date:

04/14/2016

... Others Supporting NFF Knowledge-Dissemination Effort on Impact Investing Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) is partnering ... Others Supporting NFF Knowledge-Dissemination Effort on Impact Investing ...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund Details its Mission-Aligned and Impact Investment Strategy

Release Date:

09/16/2016

Rockefeller Brothers Fund Details its Mission-Aligned and Impact Investment Strategy The Rockefeller Brothers Fund ... Rockefeller Brothers Fund Details its Mission-Aligned and Impact Investment Strategy ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Commonwealth Fund Reports Detail Impacts of Clinton and Trump Health Reform Proposals

Release Date:

09/23/2016

The Commonwealth Fund recently commissioned analysts with the RAND Corporation to crunch the numbers and find out how some of the candidates’ proposals would affect health care in the U.S.

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Public Policy

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Health

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The Commonwealth Fund

Impact of Silicon Valley Community Foundation on Education around the Country Noted

Release Date:

06/07/2017

Impact of Silicon Valley Community Foundation on Education ... recasting their teachers as facilitators and mentors. . . Impact of Silicon Valley Community Foundation on Education ...

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Education

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