Sentences with phrase «into venture philanthropy»

While Gladstone sees the move as a way to tap into venture philanthropy to advance projects too risky for pharmas and too early for VCs, other academic organizations see more problems than solutions in taking the for - profit route.

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For over 15 years, Kirsch has quietly built New Profit into one of the nation's top venture philanthropy firms.

From the start, attempts to turn philanthropy into social investing and to apply principles of venture capital to grantmaking have run into a single enormous obstacle: the absence of performance metrics that would allow one to determine anything remotely close to «social return on investment.»

An illustration of what happens when some successful business leaders venture into philanthropy.

The US Department of Education, which in recent years has hired into leadership positions a number of people from venture philanthropy organizations, has also actively promoted, and in some cases, funded these programs.