Sentences with phrase «impact investing foundation»

A portion of the funds raised will go towards a charitable and impact investing foundation.

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Similarly, Carly Fiorina, who has worked with the Milstein Symposium to study how to re-engage entrepreneurship in the U.S., told Inc. in a recent interview that she supports impact investing from large foundations to troubled areas.

The foundation is moving more heavily into impact investing.

Frustrated by the traditional foundation model in which programmatic impact is limited to the small grants budget, the foundation's board agreed to invest some endowment assets in ventures and funds that generated social and environmental benefits along with attractive returns.

A pioneer in impact investing at the Nonprofit Finance Fund, which she founded and ran from 1984 through 2010, Miller led Heron on an ambitious quest to harness 100 percent of its assets to advance the foundation's mission of fighting poverty.

Impact investing offers foundations the opportunity to align at least a portion of their investment portfolios with their charitable objectives.»

«Allowing charities to invest in limited partnerships will remove an unnecessary roadblock to foundation impact investments, opening up more opportunities for foundations to align their investment strategies with their public benefit mandates, and ultimately unlocking more capital for ventures and initiatives that support Canadian communities.»

Impact investing in Canada is on the rise, but it will require leadership from governments, foundations, pension funds, entrepreneurs, non-profit organizations (NPOs) and others to reach its full potential.

Built on the strong foundation of social economy and enterprise activity in Québec, these initiatives will provide valuable infrastructure to support social entrepreneurs and impact investing in the region.

MissionPoint empowers a select group of families, foundations and institutions to achieve social change at scale while preserving rigorous financial oversight, with an extensive history of investing in and launching new impact - driven ventures.

For example, the foundation invested hundreds of millions of dollars in promoting small schools, or «schools within schools,» a strategy it ended about a decade ago when Gates concluded that it was not having the far - reaching impact he had hoped.

Any foundation that invests the money has to ask themselves, is their money impacting the system as a whole?

«[W] e will no longer invest directly in new initiatives based on teacher evaluations and ratings,» Gates said, adding his foundation «will continue to gather data on the impact of these systems and encourage the use of these systems to improve instruction at the local level.»

The foundation is investing in cities where conditions support system - wide educational improvement, where they can have the greatest impact, and includes Denver.