Apr 28 2012
Speeches
Thank you President Padron… Members of the Board of Trustees… distinguished guests… friends and family of the graduates… and of course, the amazing Class of 2012. Congratulations! I have to be …
Apr 19 2012
Press Releases
NEW YORK—The Rockefeller Foundation today announced the launch of its Centennial initiative. The initiative, which will run through the end of 2013, marks 100 years since John D. Rockefeller started …
Apr 09 2012
Press Releases
NEW YORK—The Rockefeller Foundation announced today that it is opening the public nominating process for the 2012 Jane Jacobs Medal—awarded to two living individuals whose creative vision for the urban …
Apr 05 2012
Press Releases
The Rockefeller Foundation, celebrating 100 years of global innovation, today announced the launch of a series of new online challenges to source innovative ideas that have the potential to create …
Mar 01 2012
Impact investing involves "investors seeking to generate both financial return and social and/or environmental value—while at a minimum returning capital, and, in many cases, offering market rate returns or better." …
Innovative Finance Technology & Innovation
Feb 21 2012
Press Releases
The field of impact investing took a significant stride forward today as InSight at Pacific Community Ventures and the Initiative for Responsible Investment (IRI) at Harvard University were granted $1 …
Feb 21 2012
Impact at Scale: Policy Innovation for Institutional Investment with Social and Environmental Benefit, a collaboration between InSight at Pacific Community Ventures and the Initiative for Responsible Investment at Harvard University and funded …
Innovative Finance Technology & Innovation
Feb 21 2012
Press Releases
A new report released today by InSight at Pacific Community Ventures and the Initiative for Responsible Investment at Harvard University, and funded by The Rockefeller Foundation, examines the practices of …
Dec 06 2011
Speeches
Welcome to today's luncheon panel discussion—"The Great Mismatch." I would like to thank "The Economist" for organizing this conference and thank Matthew Bishop for providing us with an opportunity to …
Apr 10 2011
Impact investing can help solve major social and environmental problems in West Africa, leveraging new sources of capital in places that lack sufficient government resources and development aid to address …
Innovative Finance Technology & Innovation