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Child protective services (CPS) is the name of an agency in many U.S. states responsible for providing child protection, which includes responding to reports of child abuse or neglect. Some states use other names, often attempting to reflect more family-centered (as opposed to child-centered) practices, such as department of children and family ...
Impact Investing in Asia is a burgeoning sector with many funds currently in play. In South East Asia, from 2007 to 2017, US$904 million impact capital was deployed by Private Impact Investors (PIIs) and US$11.9 million was deployed by Development Finance Institutions (DFIs). Private equity and venture capital
Notably, the August 2023 lawsuit against Hello Alice’s grant program for Black-owned small businesses and the subsequent lawsuits against the Fearless Fund, the Atlanta-based VC firm investing ...
The Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation was an office new to the Obama Administration, created within the White House, [1] to catalyze new and innovative ways of encouraging government to do business differently. Its first director was the economist Sonal Shah. The final director was David Wilkinson.
Tides Center. The Connect U.S. Fund ( CUSF) was a Washington, D.C. -based nonprofit that promotes responsible U.S. global engagement in issues like nuclear nonproliferation, human rights, climate change, and development. It was founded in 2004 by several foundations and shut down in 2013. [citation needed] The organization supported grantees ...
Acumen (formerly known as Acumen Fund, legally Acumen Fund, Inc.) [1] is a nonprofit impact investment fund based in the U.S. that focuses on investing in social enterprises that serve low-income individuals. [2] [3] Acumen was founded in April 2001 by Jacqueline Novogratz. It aims to demonstrate that small amounts of philanthropic capital ...
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The charitable foundations of several major investment firms funneled anonymized donations to Children's Health Defense: Fidelity Charitable provided $1 million to Children's Health Defense and some of its state chapters in 2021-2022; The Vanguard Group's foundation gave $1.5 million to the national group and its California chapter between 2020 ...