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Kresge Foundation, NCB Capital Impact Launch $30 Million Detroit Revitalization Fund

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09/18/2013

... Foundation announced the launch of the Woodward Corridor Investment Fund, developed to invest in transformative real ...

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Rockefeller Foundation President Profiled in BusinessWeek

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10/03/2014

... of other sources of funding, including profit-seeking investment . Rockefeller may be one of America’s oldest ...

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A Great Wall of Funding? American Philanthropy and the Rise of China

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11/11/2014

Funders like Bloomberg Philanthropies and Rockefeller Brothers Fund have increased giving in China over the past decade.

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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Why Should Climate Philanthropy Care About Energy Access?

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07/02/2015

... to step up it's game on climate across the board. Our investment is woeful -- only 2 percent of all philanthropic .....

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funding Spurs Federal Synthetic Biology Research

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09/17/2015

A new study shows that less than one percent of federal funding goes to risk research.

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Ford Foundation Appoints John Irons as Director of Inclusive Economies

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05/19/2016

An economist by training, Irons led work on U.S. employment, including employment in a green economy, and a project on state and metropolitan innovation in partnership with the Brookings Institution.

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U.S. Trust Annual Survey Finds Entrepreneurs Choose The Career Path Of Most Resistance

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05/31/2016

While there are distinct differences between younger and older owners, entrepreneurs of all ages share a strong desire to control their own destiny.

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Bank of America Private Bank

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Economic Security

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Rockefeller Fund Takes First Green Stake in Pivot From Oil

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07/28/2016

... Power Ltd. to expand renewable energy in Africa. The investment was part of an $117.5 million funding round ... International Finance Corp. and other backers. The investment will help finance as much as $1.9...

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Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices

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09/2016

... foundations, such as evaluation staffing and structures, investment in evaluation work, and the usefulness of ...

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Funded by Soros and Mastercard, New Human Ventures Project Seeks to Help Refugees

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02/01/2017

... hedge fund billionaire committed $500 million in private investment capital to “invest in startups, established ...

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Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth

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Immigration

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Overbrook Foundation: A Small Family Funder Trying to Cure What Ails Environmentalism

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08/01/2017

... by Helen Altschul and Frank Altschul, who was a New York investment banker, and now led by a board of of third- and ...

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

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11/28/2017

... initiatives. Impact Shares is a nonprofit ETF issuer and investment manager, which says its mission is to "build a .....

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Gender Justice

Social Justice

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How Propel Capital is Charting New Paths For Venture Philanthropy in Progressive Organizing

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12/12/2017

... Democracy, a new $5 million effort that seeks 'to catalyze investment in local organizing strategies that build .....

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