Beyond Investing News

  The world of philanthropy is changing – in the workplace and at home.  Donors want more charitable choice.  They want their hard-earned dollars invested in effective, reputable charities that are tackling major issues of critical importance.  They want to amplify the impact of their charitable donations.  And more and more people want to support […]

It is not often that a corporate foundation will partner with a disruptive [the new buzz word] thinker to  advance a cause, but recently MetLife Foundation did just that. On Monday, December 7, we announced an $8 million, three-year partnership with Dan Ariely, head of Duke University’s Center for Advanced Hindsight, to launch a new laboratory focused […]

  Research by the Money Advice Service maintains that adult habits around money can be formed as early as the age of seven. And in this fast evolving technical age, where the whole, traditional transaction of purchase is often unseen (just look at iTunes and Uber), Visa Europe believes that teaching young people money management […]

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 […]

Co-ops are on the rise. There are 30,000 cooperative businesses in the U.S., which generate over $500 billion in total revenue, pay out $25 billion in wages and benefits and employ nearly 1 million people. The International Cooperative Alliance has declared this the Decade of the Cooperative and has invited the world to make co-ops […]

  by Marian Moore, co-founder & convener of Play BIG. For six years, RSF Social Finance has been the primary organizational partner for Play BIG, an intimate annual convening I lead that espouses the idea of activating one’s “whole portfolio” to mission. Play BIG emerged from pioneering work that Carol Newell funded in British Columbia. […]

DESCRIPTION: T. Rowe Price and Scholastic joined us for a LIVE 60-minute chat to discuss the importance of financial education and how parents can start talking to their kids about money. Together, they are working to improve the financial education of younger generations. T. Rowe Price has been dedicated to educating investors for over 75 […]

We’re approaching that time of year again, when charities start to make end-of-year fundraising asks, and employers launch what, for most, is their annual workplace giving campaign. Before you take that dusty giving campaign playbook off the shelf, you should know that participation in conventional company-led efforts needs improvement. Between 2006 and 2012, America’s Charities […]

  As part of RSF’s Social Impact Assessment (as mentioned in RSF’s 2014 Annual Report), we ask staff to answer a series of questions about how our organizational culture and organizational purpose impacts them. This is based on the understanding that “self-work” is the foundation for transforming the way the world works with money. The […]

Social enterprises are trying out all sorts of approaches to funding and structuring their ventures. But as for-profits, they are often cut off from grant opportunities (although that is changing). A new form of fiscal sponsorship promises to help fill the gap. A fiscal sponsor is a nonprofit organization that leverages its legal and tax-exempt […]

Last week Goldman Sachs announced it would enter the consumer lending business. Up to now, it’s never really bothered with the hoi polloi – you know, people who work for a living and turn to unsecured loans to make ends meet. Ever since it was founded in 1869, Goldman’s business has focused for the most part […]