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Is there a new future for endowment investments in Australia?
Australia’s biggest philanthropic foundations are challenging asset managers to invest their endownments for positive social and environmental impact. Six trusts and foundations are taking part in the Endowments for Impact Challenge run by Impacting Investing …
Tax breaks and public guarantees will boost philanthropic social investment, say sector bodies
Social projects are being denied vital investment because of restrictions on European philanthropic foundations, according to the Philanthropy Europe Association, Philea and impact investing network, Impact Europe. Last week they made four requests to the …
Biden commits $7.3 billion to renewable electricity for rural Americans
The Biden-Harris administration in the U.S has announced USD $7.3 Billion of funding for 16 rural electric cooperatives to provide electricity for five million people. The funding is aimed at providing green energy for 20 …
New investment partnership to accelerate growth of European social enterprise market
A new philanthropy and impact investing partnership plans to accelerate the growth of early-stage social impact ventures in the Dutch and wider European markets. In particular, Draper Richards Kaplan (DRK) Foundation says it will combine …
Impact Transformers: How much are corporates committing to social investment?
Alliance investments editor Claudia Cahalane meets social investment leaders and innovators at Impact Europe’s Impact Transfomers event, at The Hague from 11-13 of June 2024. On day one of Impact Transformers at the Hague, I find myself …
We need to bring every pool of capital to the table, says AVPN’s chief of impact investing
Alliance Investment Editor Claudia Cahalane chats to AVPN’s chief of impact investing, Vikas Arora in a tea break on the last day of the AVPN global forum, Abu Dhabi, and discovers his conference highlights. ‘Imagine …
Green and social bonds could be key to meeting SDGs
Issuing new green, social and sustainability bonds in emerging markets could be crucial to meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This is the claim of a new report by the Global Steering Group for …
Profit with Purpose Business: the new frontier for the social economy
Speaking on the day of the Social Impact Investment Taskforce launch, UnLtd CEO Cliff Prior referred to a new business model that could mark ‘the threshold of a social business revolution’: ‘ The new Profit-with-Purpose …
Challenges and trends in private social investment and philanthropy in Colombia
The Asociación de Fundaciones Empresariales (Association of Corporate Foundations) in Colombia, hereinafter AFE, held four focus group discussions from 19 to 22 August in the four largest Colombian cities: Bogota, Barranquilla, Cali and Medellin. The …
New developments for social investment in the UK
On 2 June a service to allow charities to issue bonds and list them on the London Stock Exchange was launched by specialist charity bond provider Allia. The bonds will technically be issued by Retail …
