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Following recent market developments such as social investor Allia’s launch of a social impact bond aimed at retail investors on 4 February 2013, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) has clarified its position...

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South Africa’s only black billionaire last month became the first African to join Bill Gates and Warren Buffet’s Giving Pledge.

Patrice Motsepe, founder and executive chairman of African Rainbow Minerals,...

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“Social entrepreneurs are stultified by traditional forms of financing,” Sir Ronald Cohen and William A. Sahlman write in a Harvard Business Review blog last month: “The biggest obstacle to scale...

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Over £1m was pledged to Save the Children at the 18th annual Thomson Reuters International Financing Review (IFR) gala awards dinner at the end of last month.

Senior representatives of...

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More than a quarter of people (26%) who give money to charity expect to reduce donations in the next year, according to a survey carried out for the Charities...

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Impetus Trust and the Private Equity Foundation (PEF) announced their intention to merge, and form Impetus – The Private Equity Foundation on January 28th. They hope to complete the merger...

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US and European philanthropy guides are now available in Chinese translation thanks to a partnership between the Foundation Center in New York City and the Beijing-based China Foundation Center.

The...

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Giving to education may one of the most popular causes for US donors, with $38.87bn in estimated donations for 2011, but PayPal co-founder and Facebook’s first external investor Peter Thiel...

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The Wood Family Trust (WFT) invested £7.5m in two Rwandan tea factories alongside Lord David Sainsbury’s Gatsby Foundation in December last year, its 2012 Annual Report revealed last month.

The...

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Social investor Allia this week launched the first social impact bond (SIB) offering to retail investors.  The SIB for Essex County Council aims to improve the life outcomes of 380...

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