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Ford and MetLife Work to Measure Impact of Community Investing

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06/09/2015

... Impact of Community Investing Community loan funds are social -purpose, typically nonprofit, financial institutions ... and other stakeholders have struggled to quantify the social impacts of those loans. Aeris...

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Community Development

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F.B. Heron Foundation Leads Foundations Toward 100 Percent Impact Investment

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07/02/2015

... cooperative shares, warrants, and hybrid instruments) have social as well as financial repercussions. These social and financial repercussions can be positive or ...

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Historian O’Connor Comments on New Ford Foundation Strategy

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08/04/2015

... Foundation’s top priority going forward will be reducing social and economic inequality, which he sees as ... embedded…in markets, political institutions, social attitudes, and cultural norms…not something…...

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Ford Statement on Importance of Arts Amidst Pressing Poverty

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08/18/2015

... Ford Foundation views the arts as critical to advancing social justice: “The arts quite simply enable us to be fully human. As a foundation committed to social justice, the creative spirit that gives us art...

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Arts

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund's Purpose-Driven Investing Highlighted by Forbes

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01/27/2017

... your brand to stand out as a sound monetary, as well as social , investment, in turn, can help your business attract ...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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NY Times Common Sense Columnist Says Ford Foundation Is an Unlikely Convert to ‘Impact’ Investing

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04/17/2017

... “earn not only attractive financial returns but concrete social returns as well,” as it said in a news release. ... education, as with college and universities, or broader social programs, as at many private...

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Supported by NY Community Trust, New Research Ties Arts to Well-Being

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04/19/2017

... New research by the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) documents the positive ... life for ordinary New Yorkers. The two-year study, by the Social Impact of the Arts...

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The New York Community Trust

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Arts

Health

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Ford, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur and Rockefeller Foundations’ Impact Investing Highlighted

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06/07/2017

... Development Goals to track global progress against massive social and environmental challenges like extreme poverty, ... investors looking for financial returns that demonstrate social good improvement...

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The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Lata Reddy Elevated to Chair of The Prudential Foundation

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06/14/2017

... financial security by moving its office of Corporate Social Responsibility to the C-Suite, reporting directly to ... The Prudential Foundation. Lata Reddy, head of Corporate Social Responsibility and chair and...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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NY Community Trust Urges Mega-Donors Can Offset Their Clout By Empowering Community Funders

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06/22/2017

... the idea that the wealthy are harnessing their fortunes to social good and we're excited by the prospect of lots of new money flowing into the social sector. What's a cause for concern, though, is...

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The New York Community Trust

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Mastercard's Big Data For Good Initiative: Data Philanthropy On The Front Lines

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08/10/2017

... can be applied not just for corporate good, but also for social good. One such firm is Mastercard, which describes ... on the application of data to a range of issues for social benefit. . . Mastercard's...

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Collective Impact Without Borders

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08/29/2017

... structured, cross-sector approach to solving complex social problems—in 2011, we have deepened our ... and aim to address a wide variety of challenges (including social mobility in Israel, fisheries...

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BBH NY Launches EmojiMeals For No Kid Hungry

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09/06/2017

... to ending childhood hunger, and BBH NY have launched a social media campaign that uses emojis to combat the issue of ... to buy food to help feed a hungry child. Launching on social media, the campaign...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Food Systems

Standing Up For Housing Equality

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09/13/2017

... call to end segregation based on all things: race, income, social status, and is supported by local residents of all ... NYCC is a coalition of working families committed to social and economic justice. . ...

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Housing and Homelessness

A Spectrum of Change: Why Is An Art Foundation Tackling Mass Incarceration?

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10/06/2017

... vision that the arts can be a powerful vehicle for social change. The Rauschenberg Foundation, meanwhile, has ... concerned with the broader connections between art and social activism. … A Spectrum of Change...

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Rockefeller Foundation Grant Helps Create Racial-Justice ETF Backed by the NAACP

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11/28/2017

... "build a platform to better align capital with meaningful social priorities that have greater impact and at lower .....

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Gender Justice

Social Justice

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How Salesforce is Innovating Corporate Philanthropy and Workplace Giving

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03/09/2018

... game plan. Dubbed Philanthropy Cloud, it’s a “ social giving platform” that riffs off the company’s ... programs seem so lackluster. In the age of crowdfunding, social media, and, yes, Netflix, personalization...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, University of Michigan Researchers Building System to Safeguard Confidential Data

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06/07/2018

... of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research at the Institute for Social Research. The Researcher Credentialing for Restricted ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Rini Banerjee Welcomed as New President of The Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation

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12/10/2018

... track record, extensive experience, and deep commitment to social justice that we were looking for in our next ... Banerjee brings more than twenty years of experience in social justice philanthropy. As the...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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