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Alliance Magazine

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Foundations can close the racial wealth gap by funding women of colour entrepreneurs

November 11, 2019 By AllianceMagazine

Shavon Marley was working in sales while dreaming of starting a business in her hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina. Then in 2016 she was hit with a breast cancer diagnosis. Faced with a situation that might have derailed many others, Shavon used it for fuel to turn her dream into reality. During long hours of […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Changes made to the Alliance magazine conference calendar

August 15, 2019 By AllianceMagazine

Alliance magazine has listened to your feedback about the conference calendar, and we’ve made some changes. From now on, you will be able to filter global philanthropy conferences and events by region: Africa Asia and the Pacific Europe Global (webinars) Latin America Middle East USA and Canada The Alliance magazine conference calendar lists all major upcoming events […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing, Beyond Investing

Is it time to the roll the dice on first-time fund managers?

August 14, 2019 By AllianceMagazine

Over the last year, it feels that philanthropists have become the new target group tasked with a responsibility of ensuring that impact investments continue to scale at the current market pace. My attention to this trend may very well be the result of my own changed interests and focus areas, but it is an interesting […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Invest for better: women lead the way

June 5, 2019 By AllianceMagazine

International philanthropy has consistently been on the leading edge of the movement to use market forces to stimulate sustainable social change. Organizations like the Grameen Bank and KIVA, for example, taught donors the power of providing access to capital to change the statistics of poverty for women and low-income entrepreneurs in far-flung communities, and paved […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

The road to gender equality

June 4, 2019 By AllianceMagazine

It’s not just a question of giving money or making investments, it’s time for us all to examine our work through a gender lens Long ago, in simpler times when donors roamed the philanthropy forest giving away money to causes close to their heart, often without a strategy or evaluation, the donor I worked for […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Using social impact investment to help the money gifted to your donor advised fund go further

April 30, 2019 By AllianceMagazine

Donor Adviser Funds (DAFs) represent a growing proportion of philanthropic capital in the UK with £1.3 billion in UK charitable assets. They are an attractive alternative to setting up a charitable foundation which can be costly and time-consuming. More and more philanthropists are realising this, but fewer are aware that they can also be an […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Pan-African investor network unveiled

April 30, 2019 By AllianceMagazine

The African Venture Philanthropy Alliance (AVPA) was unveiled this month, which has been described as a unique network for social investors to fund innovative organisations tackling the continent’s social, environmental and economic challenges. Headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, the AVPA will be modelled the European Venture Philanthropy Association (EVPA) and the Asian Venture Philanthropy Network (AVPN) AVPA […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Socrate’s recipe for systems change: know thyself

April 16, 2019 By AllianceMagazine

Systems change calls for more collaboration among public, private and civil society actors. But how can you collaborate if you’re not transparent about your impact and financial returns expectations and how much risk you are willing to take? How can we drive transparency in the venture philanthropy, social investment and impact investing sectors? We asked […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Three key considerations to put social impact at the core of your employee engagement programme

March 26, 2019 By AllianceMagazine

Almost 94 per cent of the biggest European companies offer their employees company time to volunteer[1], but too often the conversation about employee engagement in corporate social initiatives is about the ‘business case’. We talk about how these programmes contribute to employee professional development, their commitment towards the company and talent recruitment and retention. These […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing, Beyond Investing

Family matters: thoughts on a Philanthropy Impact roundtable

January 22, 2019 By AllianceMagazine

Family foundations are taking active steps to engage the next generation and in many organizations, all generations are involved in influencing giving decisions and operations as a means to educate and prepare family members for a philanthropic career. As professional advisor to (U) HNWI, understanding these dynamics and influences between generations will play an important […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing, Beyond Investing

As money moves offshore, new questions about how foundations invest their assets

January 14, 2019 By AllianceMagazine

Throughout philanthropy’s history, it’s drawn intermittent waves of intense criticism, and it certainly feels like we’re heading into one now. Outrage over wealth accumulation, an unbridled tech industry, money in politics and more is inspiring healthy scrutiny from many directions (including us).  Some of this criticism is not over funders’ influence, grantmaking practices, or relative […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

The future of impact investing: a view from Asia

October 18, 2018 By AllianceMagazine

Within philanthropy circles, people are beginning to look beyond grants to the creation of a package of what might be called social finance, which will not only be bigger but will involve the kind of expertise traditionally considered the province of the financial industry. If the UN’s Sustainable… This article is only available for our […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Small initiatives can create huge impact

October 16, 2018 By AllianceMagazine

What would you do without your smartphone these days? We depend on it for so many activities. But not everyone is aware of how their smartphone is produced. Our phones hold a complex story of the hundreds of people who helped make it. Fairphone wants to tell that story, and positively impact the way phones […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Impact investments are philanthropy’s brave new world

June 20, 2018 By AllianceMagazine

The synchronisation of asset portfolios and donations within a joint mission is the way forward if philanthropic foundations and funds are to maximise their impact and value. That’s the view of impact-investment organisation GIIN. But what is needed to achieve this brave new world? When foundations develop new strategies, they are often designed with sharp […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Three ways collaboration could potentially advance place-based impact investing

May 22, 2018 By AllianceMagazine

Place-based impact investing is gaining momentum in philanthropy, helping communities grow small businesses, create high-wage jobs, and increase the supply of affordable housing. Rather than going at this practice alone, many foundations, especially small and midsize foundations, are designing innovative ways to work with each other and leverage their own investment capital and the capital of others to make […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

MDIF closes $6 million media impact fund

March 26, 2018 By AllianceMagazine

Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF), the New York-based non-profit which supports independent media in countries where it is under threat, has announced the final close of its MDIF Media Finance I (MMF I), a $6 million impact investment fund which will support news media in emerging and frontier markets. Likely investees, says a press release […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

What constitutes a good deal anyway?

March 26, 2018 By AllianceMagazine

At the 10th anniversary of the Good Deals conference (combined with the 1st anniversary of Beyond Good Business), nestled within London’s Royal Institute of British Architects, hundreds of social entrepreneurs, social investors, intermediaries and sector experts came together to ‘explore how to do good business better’. Social enterprise makes more than £55 billion for the […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Red Cross launch world’s first humanitarian impact bond

September 12, 2017 By AllianceMagazine

The world’s first ‘Humanitarian Impact Bond’ has been launched by The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), to improve the financing of aid in conflict-hit countries. The Humanitarian Impact Bond, set up by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), has raised over £20 million pounds (26 million CHF), to set up three […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Reflections of an Alliance intern: Philanthropy, the problem or the solution?

July 24, 2017 By AllianceMagazine

‘What is philanthropy?’ was one of the first questions Alliance editor Charles Keidan asked me when I first arrived at the magazine’s London office for my internship. Amanda Aguilar. We sat in a round, sunny room, and I quickly searched my brain for an answer through the flurry of first day nerves. I hadn’t come […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing, Beyond Investing

Social investment in Asia: philanthropy’s new venture

June 21, 2017 By AllianceMagazine

‘How many people here don’t have their smartphone within easy reach?’ asked Ong Peng Tsin, Chair of Solve Education in the opening plenary of this year’s Asia Venture Philanthropy Network (AVPN) conference in Bangkok, 7-9 June 2017. Only one hand out of 700 went up. Mine. Most of my fellow delegates inferred from this – […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

What happens to the rest of it? How foundations make investments

May 30, 2017 By AllianceMagazine

Low-risk investment companies that channel a small percentage of their assets into philanthropy – that’s how Clara Miller, president of the Heron Foundation described foundations in an interview with Alliance a year ago. It’s on that ‘small percentage’ that the spotlight generally falls. What happens to the rest of it? How are those investments made […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Millennial philanthropists are breaking tradition, research finds

May 5, 2017 By AllianceMagazine

Millennial philanthropists are unafraid of breaking tradition to achieve social impact according to a new report, sponsored by French bank BNP Paribas. The report, written by the Economist Intelligence Unit, is based on research and in-depth interviews with 15 philanthropy experts and millennial philanthropists around the world. The report revealed that millennials are turning away […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing, Beyond Investing

Website launches guide to social investment field

April 12, 2017 By AllianceMagazine

Good Finance, which guides charities and social enterprises through the social investment process, launches a new website today. This is the second phase of a year-long collaboration between key social investment sector partners including Big Society Capital, Access, DCMS, NCVO, Social Enterprise UK and Matter & Co. The project is the result of user-focused design […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Ford Foundation ploughs $1 billion into mission related investments

April 7, 2017 By AllianceMagazine

The Ford Foundation, one of world’s largest charitable foundations, has announced that it will invest up to $1 billion of its $12 billion endowment in Mission Related Investments (MRIs). Billed by the New York based philanthropy as ‘the largest commitment of its kind by a private foundation’, its executives hope it ‘sends a signal to […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

The case for social investment in microcredit

December 1, 2016 By AllianceMagazine

Timothy Ogden, contributing editor to Alliance, today published his paper ‘The Case for Social Investment in Microcredit’ with the NYU Development Research Institute. It examines the recent research into microcredit impact, and based on this, goes on to argue for continued investment in microfinance. Ogden writes, ‘social investors flocked to the sector, not just because there […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing

The millennials who don’t want to call themselves philanthropists – and why we must listen to them

October 4, 2016 By AllianceMagazine

The term philanthropist, it seems, is getting a bad rep. The next generation of philanthropists at this year’s Philanthropy Australia conference made it perfectly clear that they would prefer to be known as ‘change-makers’ or ‘social entrepreneurs’, and so, are ‘consciously uncoupling’ from being known as philanthropists. It appears today, as discussed at the Conference, […]

Filed Under: Beyond Investing

The best place to be a social entrepreneur? The results are in

September 16, 2016 By AllianceMagazine

Thomson Reuters today published the findings of their global perception poll of the best places to be a social entrepreneur. This poll was conducted in partnership with UnLtd and Deutsche Bank, and asked 900 experts in 45 of the world’s biggest economies a series of questions relating to this business-for-social-good sector, ranking the countries accordingly. […]

Filed Under: Beyond Investing

Council on Foundations: Spotlight on how US foundations invest their endowments

September 6, 2016 By AllianceMagazine

In July 2016, the Council on Foundations and Commonfund Institute released a new study of responsible investing practices at US private and community foundations. The survey investigated policies, perceptions and practices related to how foundations align investment of their endowments with their charitable purpose. With nearly 200 respondents, it is the largest study of its […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing, -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

Impact Investment – now a global movement

July 25, 2016 By AllianceMagazine

‘Let’s do it – people’s lives depend on it.’ That was the opening line from Big Society Capital founder Sir Ronald Cohen, by video to the Global Impact Investment Plenary in Lisbon: a gathering of 250 people from many countries.  There is no doubt that the Social Impact Investment Taskforce, which launched three years ago when the […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

AVPN 2016: A Conversation with Bernard Chan

June 17, 2016 By AllianceMagazine

From May 23 to 25, the Asian Venture Philanthropy Network (AVPN) held its annual conference for the first time in Hong Kong, away from its home base of Singapore. Among the 130 featured speakers from around the world, one of the most anticipated was Mr. Bernard Chan, a pioneer in advancing social sector work in […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Breaking the iron curtain between investing and grant-making

May 31, 2016 By AllianceMagazine

Private companies have the purpose to make money. Civil society organisations want to do good. Foundations need to do both – make money through investing their endowment, and contribute to social change, based on their values and mission. This hybrid character of foundations – the challenge to match the mission with the need to make […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Launch of new Challenge to Get Businesses to Become Social Investors

February 29, 2016 By AllianceMagazine

Business leaders across the UK are being challenged to think outside the box and come up with innovative ways of using social investment to tackle some of the most pressing social issues. Big Society Capital is launching its second Business Impact Challenge to look for the best ideas for high-impact investments that generate both strong […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Chair in Philanthropy a first for the continent

February 23, 2016 By AllianceMagazine

A collaboration between the Southern Africa Trust and Wits Business School (WBS) will see a Chair in African Philanthropy established on the continent in a pioneering move to take forward the study of gifting in Africa. Full vesting of the chair will be assisted by the temporary appointment of Dr Alan Fowler as a visiting […]

Filed Under: Beyond Investing

How to get started with Venture Philanthropy and Social Impact Investment- From Set-Up to Exit

February 2, 2016 By AllianceMagazine

EVPA, the European association for social (impact) investors and venture philanthropists, has released its latest report capturing the learnings and findings of ten years of practice: A Practical Guide to Venture Philanthropy and Social Impact Investment. Building on the collected lessons, failures and successes from practitioners and several years of EVPA research, the guide is […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Finland bets on SIBs to solve social welfare challenges

December 21, 2015 By AllianceMagazine

Finland launched its National Impact Investing Task Force at a well-attended, sleek event in Helsinki on 9 December. After having kept a close eye on initiatives like the G8 Social Impact Investment Task Force and its various offshoots for the past several years, Sitra—Finland’s innovation fund, which reports directly to parliament—is leading the group. It […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Millennials and Venture Philanthropy

December 7, 2015 By AllianceMagazine

During the annual gathering of the European Venture Philanthropy Association on December 2 and 3 in Madrid, which saw record 520 registrations, one of the emerging themes that received some air time was Millennials and their approach to Venture Philanthropy. For the sake of clarity, Venture Philanthropy is an approach to strengthening social purpose organizations […]

Filed Under: Beyond Investing

NPC and KLF beginning to sort the impact investment wheat from the chaff

December 7, 2015 By AllianceMagazine

New Philanthropy Capital (NPC) in the UK and the KL Felicitas Foundation (KLF) in the USA have together launched a new framework for measuring the social and environmental returns on impact investments. In a new report, Investing for Impact, NPC reviews the KLF’s work since 2004. Looking at the 41 investments made by KLF to […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

SOCAP 2015 HIGHLIGHTS – See how Capitalism is Serving the World.

October 14, 2015 By AllianceMagazine

Walk into the Fort Mason building that has housed SOCAP for nearly 10 years – and you will see the buzz. A mix of people who own socially conscious businesses, invest in them, or want to work for them – has descended! I’ve seen it from the start, eight years ago. Perhaps 40 people convened […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing, Beyond Investing

An index we really need

September 13, 2015 By AllianceMagazine

We’ve been measuring philanthropic giving for decades. There are several directories and annual tallies of American charitable giving. For about the last decade, the impact investing movement has been trying to establish definitions, baselines, and annual measurements. It’s a work in progress, but they’re getting there. All kinds of groups monitor and measure spending on […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Social impact bonds: made in Switzerland – finally!

August 24, 2015 By AllianceMagazine

In 2010 the first social impact bond was launched in the UK. In its very nature this innovative structured fixed-income instrument proved the concept of realising a reasonable financial return along with a measurable social dividend. This summer such a bond has been launched as a pilot project in the Cantone of Bern, Switzerland. Many […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Impact investing – what we’ve learnt

June 29, 2015 By AllianceMagazine

Two and a half years ago, we launched Nesta Impact  Investments, a fund that aims to scale innovative solutions to the UK’s most challenging social issues.  We want to see our ventures develop financially while also demonstrating the positive social impact of what they do. This means we invest in ventures that have a credible […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

The state of impact investing, Day 2 of the COF conference: bubbles and unexplored frontiers

April 28, 2015 By AllianceMagazine

The diffuse state of impact investing in the foundation world was evident again in sessions at day two of the Council of Foundations’ annual conference in San Francisco (and outside of them). The main impact investing session of the day was a panel of foundations that began some form of impact investing more than ten […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

The state of impact investing: reflections from day one of the Council on Foundations’ conference  

April 27, 2015 By AllianceMagazine

A few years ago I swore off attending philanthropy conferences for the simple reason that I felt like I was hearing the same things over and over again. I’m attending the Council of Foundations’ annual conference, held 26-28 April in San Francisco, for the first time since 2011 with a particular eye on what, if […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

Investing with the head and the heart: reflections from the AVPN conference

April 25, 2015 By AllianceMagazine

Reflecting on my three days at the Asian Venture Philanthropy Network (AVPN) conference, held 20-23 April in Singapore, I was struck by the number of conversations that wrestled with seemingly dichotomous concepts: head vs heart, disruption vs sustainability, local solutions vs scale, perseverance vs ‘fail fast’, and even as far as love vs hate. But […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

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