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Philanthrocapitalism in the White House

“It is wonderful to see all these do-gooders in one room,” said Barack Obama, at a White House gathering on June 30th of leaders of America’s best non-profits. The occasion was the long-awaited launch of a $50m Innovation Fund to support the scaling up of the non-profit community’s best ideas for tackling America’s biggest problems […]

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Google to the Rescue?

One of the biggest challenges facing successful non-profit start-ups is getting the capital they need to grow to the scale at which they can achieve the sort of massive impact delivered by successful for-profit start-ups, such as Google. Creating a new way to connect these non-profits to philanthropic funders with the capital they need to […]