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

Omar Woodard
Monday, September 14, 2020
... today announced  GreenLight Philadelphia Fund III , a $3.5 million fund to scale solutions to systemic challenges identified by ... and support from 10 corporate partners: Amgen Foundation, Comcast, Franklin Mint Federal Credit Union (FMFCU), FS ...
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 parks, recreation centers, and libraries. ... and CEO and Founder of Rodriguez Consulting, a minority owned business working on Rebuild projects in Kensington and ...

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 ... 2020 in order to keep global warming to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. Although  ... in May sparked widespread outrage, prompting  between 15 million and 26 million people  across the United States to ...
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Race influences professional investors’ financial judgments

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05/2019
... an online experiment with actual asset allocators to determine whether there are biases in their evaluations of funds led by people of color, and, if ... so, how these biases manifest. We asked asset allocators to rate venture capital funds based on their evaluation of a ...

Investing in Women: A Gender-Lens Investing Conversation

Friday, March 1, 2019
... Sarah Brodsky Women who have been successful trailblazers in the workplace often see the value of investing in women ... my life,” she said, “I think about how important it is to get behind the gender-focused investing concept.” Many ... strategy, she recommends that they first try dedicating a small fraction of their portfolio to gender-lens investments. ...
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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. ... traditional perspective on foundation investing is that 5% of assets should be spent on mission-related funding (as ... was fruitful. “We’re a foundation that has $35 million. We’ve done [mission-aligned investing] on a ...
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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 ... loans, Reinvestment Fund. Each organization has committed $5 million toward  PhilaImpact Fund’s  $30 million goal. ...

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 ... rate from 19% to 2% and prompt  double-digit increases in attendance and the school’s state graduation rate. Now, ... and industrial factories which, according to Dozier, gave rise to Chicago’s labor movement and some of the first ...
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 ... different organizations. As a group, we will be encouraged to ask questions just as we would if we were going to be investing. The speakers will engage in an open discussion about what questions they are typically ...
22May2020

Mission Investors Exchange's Place-Based Week: Greater Philadelphia

Friday, May 22, 2020
12:00pm - 1:45pm
Video Conference
... three entrepreneurs with local investment opportunities in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: Kimberly McGlonn, Grant Blvd Kersy ... capital stack inclusive of impact investments and grants. Philanthropy Network members, please email Shira ...
13Mar2019

Collective Impact Capital Opportunity Featuring First Step Staffing

Wednesday, March 13, 2019
11:45am - 2:00pm
Blank Rome
... Philadelphia and Social Venture Circle (SVC) is excited to invite you to a presentation from SVC's portfolio ... at Blank Rome as we consider another investment in FSS. We will have a social lunch, and then from 1:15-2:00, ... with connections, money, and expertise in order to create businesses that drive the NEXT economy: one that is ...
21Sep2020

Getting to 100%: Our Journey to Mission Alignment

Monday, September 21, 2020
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Video Conference
... girls. Dr. Shaber will share how her foundation was able to achieve this and will workshop with attendees how to utilize a similar framework in their own organizations’ efforts to align assets with ...

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 ... change using a racial equity lens. This post (the first in a series) will outline Philanthropy Network’s goal, ... racial equity into their practices.  “As a relatively small funder [$25M], our Directors have always been ...

Sidney Hargro named to Generocity's 2018 Leaders List

Wednesday, September 5, 2018
... “ 12 people of color leading the social impact charge in Philadelphia .” It included short profiles of 12 ... His profile by Julie Zeglen is below.  CLICK HERE to view the full list . Sidney Hargro: Impact investing ... for foundations to invest  more than their mandated 5 percent . Put another way: Impact investing is about using ...

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

Friday, March 16, 2018
... ranks 43rd  of the United States’ 50 biggest cities in charitable giving, with residents donating an average of only  2.5 percent of their income . Could the savior of our ... impact investing  scene, which employs venture capital to support early-stage  social enterprises, or ...
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