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[Business News] Business News - Rockefeller Funds Responsible Property Center: Gary Pivo, a professor of urban planning and natural resources at the University of Arizona who directs the RPIC, “Responsible Property Investing encompasses a variety of efforts to address global warming, smart growth, land conservation, and community development in the course of profitable real estate investing.” The Center fills a major void in the investment landscape by bringing together leading property investors, managers and developers to share best practices, conduct crucial research and facilitate business relationships in the field of Responsible Property Investing.

[TakePart Social Action Networkâ™ » Environment] TakePart Exclusive: Q&A with John Nelson of Wall Street Without ...: There's a real openness to social service and sustainable enterprises that they are more socially responsible. The MBA students that we work with are really interested in community development, they are really into finance, and they are really interested in ways that there can be a collaboration among the different strains in our society that are often isolated from each other.

[Asia IIX - Impact Investment Exchange Asia] Brace for Impact « Asia IIX - Impact Investment Exchange Asia: A key and differentiating feature in the development of impact investments as an asset class is the measuring and rating of impact, and the stories around the positive use of money that drive these investments. For many investors who are concerned about the better use of their capital it is not sufficient to hold a range of investments that have been subject to a simple negative screen or a light ”˜best in class’ approach to managing an ethical portfolio.

[Economist's View] Economist's View: Socially Responsible Philanthropic Investment: Moreover, investing in destructive or unethical companies is not what is most harmful, said Hawken and other experts, including Douglas Bauer, senior vice president of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, a nonprofit group that assists foundations on policy and ethical issues. Worse, they said, is investing purely for profit, without attempting to improve a company's way of operating.

[NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise - News feed] Rockefeller 2.0: Gates relaunches philanthropy | Newsroom ...: Buffett's pledge also effectively doubles the Gates foundation's annual spending requirement - the government requires all private foundations to spend at least 5 percent of their endowments annually - and this, for Gates foundation employees, has unleashed a mad scramble to spend more, faster, and all while retaining effectiveness standards amid a staff expansion that will take the foundation from 543 current employees to more than 800 by year's end. According to Gates Foundation spokeswoman Heidi Sinclair, the foundation distributed some $2.007 billion last year, roughly 5.4 percent of its endowment, and, to keep pace with its growth from the Buffett gift, will be required to give some $3.5 billion away next year, almost twice the 2007 amount.

[News] Climategate: the AGW edifice begins to collapse - Telegraph Blogs: In addition to the involvement in the UNEP FI activities, he is giving many educational speeches about environmental problems and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)/Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) in various government councils, seminars, universities and TV programs. He is advisor to mayors of local governments and outside director of corporations in Japan.

[The Institute of Science in Society] Philanthropy Gates Style: Much the same criticism, and more in depth, has come from Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations, writing in Foreign Affairs [9], and raising the possibility that charities operating in sub-Saharan Africa – the Gates Foundation prominent among them – may be doing more harm than good by destabilizing the healthcare systems that they inject so much resource into. Notably, there is a scarcity of healthcare workers, especially acute in the least developed countries, as many of their health workers have been lured to rich developed countries to make up for the shortage there.

[Tierra Lucero's Blog] Tierra Lucero's Blog » Blog Archive » “Profits for Justice” - by ...: After reviewing this and other problems facing nonprofits (high staff turnover, poor management, overreaching boards, zealous IRS regulators), one of the leading promoters of entrepreneurial nonprofits, the Roberts Foundation, concedes, “Were there a significant competitive advantage to being a non-profit engaged in revenue-generating activities, we would have witnessed a marked increase in the number of businesses seeking”¦to take advantage of the added financial benefit of non-profit status in the marketplace. In fact, we see just the opposite.”

[What Does The Prayer Really Say?] What Does The Prayer Really Say?»Blog Archive » Benedict XVI's ...: 2008 Weblog Awards Winner · 2007 Weblog Awards Winner * Best Apologetic Blog * Best blog by Clergy * Best Individual Blog * Most Informative Blog * Best Insider News Blog * Smartest Blog * Most Spiritual Blog * Best Written Blog ....

[Mises Economics Blog] A Libertarian Green Responds to Climategate - Jeffrey Tucker ...: Yet for all the heat I have taken here as the resident climate gadfly/misanthrope, it remains curious to me that for all of the occasional lip service to opposition to statism, no one seems the least interested in the coal/fossil fuel lobby, much less the fact that Austrians-in-good-stead Rob Bradley and Bob Murphy are directly engaged in acting as mouthpieces for clear fossil fuel front groups such as Institute for Energy Research (that Exxon expressly stopped funding last year because of their "unproductive" climate change positions).

[philanthropyOz Blog] philanthropyOz Blog » The Future of Australian Philanthropy: New ...: Good times and healthy economies provide the scope for philanthropic experimentation. Sudden turmoil - whether in the form or war, huge tax increases or stock market crashes - leads to philanthropy being expected to reign back its experimentation and focus on “charity” in the strictest definition of the word, in order to support immediate needs and survival.

[WE Blog] Open thread 12/8 | WE Blog | Wichita Eagle Blogs: If G@y Straight Alliances are not about s3x, why are the people who run G@y Straight Alliances telling students about fisting? What you did not see is the man leading the discussion positioning his hand and showing 14 year olds how to insert their entire hand into the r@ctum of their sex partner.

[Pajamas Media] Pajamas Media » Dutch: Gore Wrong on Snows of Kilimanjaro: Check fat Al’s humongous 20 room, 8 bedroom house that last year used the electricity equivalent to that used by 232 average sized houses, his large, luxurious house boat, his travel arrangements with fleets of gas guzzling SUVs and private jets, the fifty fold increase in his net worth since 2000–$2 million to $100 million, and his ownership of the “carbon offset” trading company that will be a major beneficiary if governments take drastic steps to limit “Man-Made Climate Change,”

[PGDC - Planned Giving Design Center] The Next Wave of Philanthropy and Wealth Management | Planned ...: Unlike traditional socially responsible investing that relies on “negative screening”””the avoidance of public companies that do not pass certain social criteria””MRI implies proactively seeking investment opportunities that produce a blend of financial returns and social impact that are in line with the philanthropy’s mission. Still an emergent issue, MRI is characterized by limited deal flow, especially in deals that have minimums low enough to allow widespread participation.

[Pajamas Media] Pajamas Media » Coleman: Media Will Ignore Climategate Until They ...: about those topics, whether from blog sites or the corporate media. And they paint a much more complex and detailed picture that doesn’t resemble at all the dumbed down, confused rubbish that most Americans were being fed on a regular basis.

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