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The Philadelphia Foundation and Reinvestment Fund Launch PhilaImpact Fund

Monday, April 30, 2018
... million goal. PhilaImpact Fund  offers an opportunity for investors to channel their capital into neighborhood ... and the surrounding counties—Chester, Montgomery, Bucks, Delaware, Camden and Burlington. “The  PhilaImpact Fund ... center that includes a Family School run by Family Support Services, early childhood education for over 100 children, ...

GreenLight Fund is bringing a new model of financial empowerment to Philadelphia

Friday, July 27, 2018
... philanthropy network that supports the expansion of nonprofits with proven results to the cities where the ... build credit so they can move to home ownership. Financial services nonprofit Clarifi will implement the CWC model ... following Parent-Child Home Program, Year Up, Center for Employment Opportunities and Single Stop USA; it’s ...
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GreenLight Raises New $3.5 Million Fund to Combat Systemic Poverty in Philadelphia

Omar Woodard
Monday, September 14, 2020
... models: Year Up Greater Philadelphia, Single Stop, Center for Employment Opportunities, ParentChild+, and Compass ... and portfolio management. “This is an exciting day for GreenLight Philadelphia and the Advisory Council, and a ... Capital and Technologies (PACT). In partnership with the Delaware River Port Authority, the Ben Franklin Bridge will ...

Race influences professional investors’ financial judgments

Published: 
05/2019
... about future per- formance (e.g., money raised) for racially homogenous teams than for racially diverse teams. Despite the apparent preference for racially diverse teams at weaker performance levels, ...
22May2019

Invest in Results Philadelphia

Wednesday, May 22, 2019
9:00am - 1:00pm
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
... are working together to achieve lasting outcomes for their communities, as well as practical strategies for reorienting around outcomes in your work. This event is ... are outcomes, and how are they measured? How does current funding make it harder for service providers to offer ...
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22Jan2020

One Year of Rebuild: Collaborating to Advance Opportunity, Engagement and Equity in Neighborhoods

Wednesday, January 22, 2020
9:00am - 11:00am
Free Library of Philadelphia
... we invite to join a conversation about how collaborative funding can advance individual funders’ priorities while ... will include: Pati Codina , Community Development Director for Impact Services, a nonprofit managing Rebuild projects in Kensington ...

Sidney Hargro named to Generocity's 2018 Leaders List

Wednesday, September 5, 2018
... each of their editorial calendar themes of that year, one for each month.  For year two, Generocity again based the list on its 2018 ... as  partners working toward a collectively more impactful funding sector . Hargro, executive director of the  ...

Pushing Impact Investing Forward: 4 Themes for 2021

Impact Investing blog post
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
... the United States to protest racial injustice and call for police reform. The Black Lives Matter movement  won new support , funding, and public recognition, particularly for its ... greatly underrepresented  among founders awarded venture funding and research has found  smaller gender pay gaps  in ...
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Justice, not charity: Liz Dozier thinks philanthropy should be rooted in equity and solidarity

Liz Dozier
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
Story via Generocity - Media Partner for SPARX Conference 2019 ... justice, not charity, is how she sees the work of funding transformation. Dozier will be the keynote speaker ... of solidarity [the funder] would penalize the organization for noncompliance,” Dozier said. “But showing up in ...
13Mar2019

Collective Impact Capital Opportunity Featuring First Step Staffing

Wednesday, March 13, 2019
11:45am - 2:00pm
Blank Rome
... limiting their growth. They also have philanthropic funding needs to provide wrap-around services, (primarily transportation) for their clientele. Please join us for this presentation on ...
24Jun2021

Mission-Aligned Investing Working Group

Thursday, June 24, 2021
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Video Conference
... you and what you are doing. Please come ready to share. For those planning on attending, please keep your eye out for a survey to complete in advance. We look forward to ... you!  PLEASE NOTE: Attendance at this meeting is reserved for Philanthropy Network members only. Mission-Aligned ...

5 Ways Impact Investors and Philanthropists can Innovate to Solve Philly’s Biggest Problem

Friday, March 16, 2018
... crippling poverty  and a  proliferation of struggling nonprofits , the city  ranks 43rd  of the United States’ ... early-stage  social enterprises, or mission-minded for-profits . But cross-sector funding innovation — philanthropy and impact investing ...
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How Mission-Aligned Investments Helped the Patricia Kind Family Foundation Expand Its Reach

Tuesday, January 22, 2019
... been able to directly impact the communities it supports. For example, the Foundation made a private equity investment ... is that 5% of assets should be spent on mission-related funding (as mandated by the  Internal Revenue Service ). The ... amount of good a foundation can do with its endowment. And for her, this was a problem. “Why should foundations, which ...
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27Mar2020

Mission-Aligned Investors COVID-19 Response Meeting

Friday, March 27, 2020
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Video Conference
We are all trying to figure out how we can help nonprofits and social enterprises during this difficult time. ... decisions and identify areas of collaboration. Click below for a recording of video conference: Mission-Aligned ...
20May2019

Understanding the Landscape of Impact Investing in Greater Philadelphia

Monday, May 20, 2019
9:00am - 2:00pm
Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships
... to join us on Monday, May 20th  at The Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships (Ryan Hall, Room S109, 3509 ... Street, Philadelphia PA 19104) from 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM for an exciting conversation to highlight the findings from ... on economic justice, which means investing in opportunity for all people—especially those most oppressed or abandoned ...
07Oct2020

Setting the Table: Reimagining Wealth & Capitalism

Wednesday, October 7, 2020
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Video Conference
... Greater Philadelphia and Marcus Walton , CEO, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations . Taking place every other month, ... + create) a better future, ensuring we don’t settle for innovation as the future state but as an opportunity to ... racial equity. We hope you can pull up a seat at the table for our first conversation on Wednesday, October 7, 2020, ...

Investing in Women: A Gender-Lens Investing Conversation

Friday, March 1, 2019
... in women and promoting gender equality. That’s true for Laura LaRosa, the Director of Client Development at ... and being one of the few women in senior positions for much of my life,” she said, “I think about how ... Investors could back companies whose end products or services have a positive effect on women’s lives, such as a ...
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