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2. Robin Hood Foundation - Wikipedia

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   Fortune magazine said "Robin Hood was a pioneer in what is now called venture philanthropy, or charity that embraces free-market forces. An early practitioner of using metrics to measure the effectiveness of grants, it is a place where strategies to alleviate urban poverty are hotly debated, ineffectual plans are coldly discarded, and its staff ...

3. Philanthropreneur - Wikipedia

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   For example, in "impact investing", a core practice of philanthropreneurship, project selection for funding is based on estimated social impact and financial return. [9] From an ethical context, many critics argue that the incorporation of a business model commercializes the nonprofit sector and further increases the risk of distorting the ...

4. Leducq Foundation - Wikipedia

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   The Leducq organization comprises the Leducq Charitable Trust and Leducq Foundation, both based in the Bahamas, the United States–based Leducq Foundation for Cardiovascular Research, a not-for-profit private foundation under the 501(c)(3) tax code, and Broadview Ventures, Inc. and Longview Healthcare Ventures, both part of a Boston, Massachusetts–based venture philanthropic program ...

5. Hamilton Community Foundation - Wikipedia

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   The donation enables HCF to launch strategic philanthropy with a broad community consultation and research on the best ways to use its unique position and proactive, planned and focused use of its resources. Our Millennium is launched; HCF`s first community engagement process.

6. Global Philanthropy Forum - Wikipedia

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   The Global Philanthropy Forum (GPF) is an initiative of the World Affairs Council which acts as a peer-learning network of philanthropists — grant-makers and social investors — committed to advancing equity and opportunity in the developing world.

7. Venture philanthropy - Wikipedia

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   Venture philanthropy is a type of impact investment that takes concepts and techniques from venture capital finance and business management and applies them to achieving philanthropic goals. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The term was first used in 1969 by John D. Rockefeller III to describe an imaginative and risk-taking approach to philanthropy that may be ...