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Justice, not charity: Liz Dozier thinks philanthropy should be rooted in equity and solidarity

Liz Dozier
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
... SPARX Conference, taking place from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Thursday, October 31 at the Hilton Philadelphia ... gives the example of one of Chicago Beyond’s partner organizations that received a grant to serve 200 young ... the power dynamics between funders, researchers and community organizations, and according to Dozier, has been ...
20May2019

Understanding the Landscape of Impact Investing in Greater Philadelphia

Monday, May 20, 2019
9:00am - 2:00pm
Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships
Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia invites you to join us on Monday, May 20th  at The Dornsife Center for ... ecosystems across the country. Urbane Development is a community development venture and certified MBE based in New York City. Founded in 2008, Urbane cultivates innovative solutions ...

Pushing Impact Investing Forward: 4 Themes for 2021

Impact Investing blog post
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
... fallout revealed systemic shortcomings that may take years to rectify. While 99% of respondents to the  Global Impact ... Juneteenth . Dozens of asset management firms, nonprofit organizations, and individual investors signed the  Racial ...  supporting businesses with Black owners and to back  community development financial institutions , which broaden ...
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Mission-Aligned Investing: A model for maximizing philanthropic impact and equity

Evolving ideas
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
... can’t walk, then crawl. But, whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward. – Martin Luther King Jr. During ... and tools to address racial inequities and better support their community. Mission-aligned investing pools resources from ...

GreenLight Raises New $3.5 Million Fund to Combat Systemic Poverty in Philadelphia

Omar Woodard
Monday, September 14, 2020
... GreenLight Philadelphia Fund III , a $3.5 million fund to scale solutions to systemic challenges identified by ... a vote of confidence in GreenLight’s long-term focus on community need, evidence, and local fit,” said Kat ... a growing coalition of investors and champions for our city and its families,” said Josh Kopelman, Managing ...

Race influences professional investors’ financial judgments

Published: 
05/2019
... an online experiment with actual asset allocators to determine whether there are biases in their evaluations of ... so, how these biases manifest. We asked asset allocators to rate venture capital funds based on their evaluation of a ... people of color might paradoxically face the most barriers to advancement after they have established themselves as ...
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
Rebuild is the City of Philadelphia’s initiative to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in neighborhood ... neighborhood revitalization efforts Elevating the voice of community members Helping to strengthen and grow small, ...

Sidney Hargro named to Generocity's 2018 Leaders List

Wednesday, September 5, 2018
... on its 2018 editorial calendar, but this time asked for community input via a nomination form. More than 130 ... His profile by Julie Zeglen is below.  CLICK HERE to view the full list . Sidney Hargro: Impact investing ... philanthropists, which is the practice of “using capital to create change that’s not necessarily grants,” he said ...
24Jun2021

Mission-Aligned Investing Working Group

Thursday, June 24, 2021
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Video Conference
... Working Group on June, 24th from 2:00 - 3:15 PM to learn more about community investment approaches and hear from some of your ... engaged in Mission-Aligned Investing. We also want to hear from you and what you are doing. Please come ready to ...

Investing in Women: A Gender-Lens Investing Conversation

Friday, March 1, 2019
... my life,” she said, “I think about how important it is to get behind the gender-focused investing concept.” Many ... Supports Women Gender-focused investing strategies aim to support women, but use different methods to do so. One way is ... spots and introduce innovative ideas that homogeneous organizations might miss. “Having different thought ...
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The Philadelphia Foundation and Reinvestment Fund Launch PhilaImpact Fund

Monday, April 30, 2018
... , a new place-based impact investment opportunity targeted to the Greater Philadelphia region. The Fund is believed to be a first-of-its-kind collaboration between a community foundation, The Philadelphia Foundation, and an ... their capital into neighborhood development projects that support regional growth and local initiatives in the ...

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

Friday, July 27, 2018
... supports the expansion of nonprofits with proven results to the cities where the network’s sites are based, focusing on organizations working with children, youth and families in ... the first in the asset-building space. GreenLight’s support for this investment totals $600,000. Its funders ...
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How Mission-Aligned Investments Helped the Patricia Kind Family Foundation Expand Its Reach

Tuesday, January 22, 2019
... the  Patricia Kind Family Foundation  (PKFF) has worked to alleviate poverty in the Greater Philadelphia area. ... adults reenter the workforce. Other loans have gone to organizations taking innovative approaches to poverty ... Today, led by Managing Trustee Christine Kind* and the support from the entire board, PKFF continues to push the ...
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07Oct2020

Setting the Table: Reimagining Wealth & Capitalism

Wednesday, October 7, 2020
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Video Conference
We are pleased to introduce our new webinar series, Setting the Table , ... and Marcus Walton , CEO, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations . Taking place every other month, this series ... the intersection of philanthropy, racial equity and social justice. Inspired by Sidney and Marcus’s conversation in ...
29Jan2019

Mission-Aligned Investing Meeting: What to Expect During a Pitch Meeting

Tuesday, January 29, 2019
9:00am - 11:00am
Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia
Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia invites you to join us for a conversation on mission-aligned investing ... session, you will hear pitches from two very different organizations. As a group, we will be encouraged to ask ... have a difficult time raising sufficient financial support. Jon Roesser is the General Manager of Weavers Way ...
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 ... will host our first members-only funder video call on how to respond to COVID-19 using mission-aligned investing. This will be an ...
11Mar2022

Taking a Racial Equity Approach to Endowment Management

Friday, March 11, 2022
11:00am - 1:00pm
VIDEO CONFERENCE
Join us on March 11th from 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM to hear from  The Racial Equity Asset Lab  (The REAL). ... Seth Davies , Rhia Ventures (Facilitator) Bert Feuss , Community Capital Advisors Orim Graves, CFA , National ... to Endowment Management - Community Capital Advising Organizations: Diverse Asset Managers Initiative Lenox Park ...

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

Friday, March 16, 2018
...  and a  proliferation of struggling nonprofits , the city  ranks 43rd  of the United States’ 50 biggest cities ... impact investing  scene, which employs venture capital to support early-stage  social enterprises, or mission-minded ...
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Placed-Based Impact Investing: Three Briefs for Practitioners

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06/2019
Seeking ways to maximize the social and economic returns of their ... CDFIs, private investors, and others are turning to collaboration. To support these efforts and facilitate lesson sharing, the ...

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