Philanthropy

The Transform Health Fund aims to provide a template for blended finance in Africa’s healthcare sector. Following the fund’s close, we talk about progress so far with Martin Edlund of the Health Finance Coalition, one of the fund’s founding organisations. 

The organisations launched a set of recommendations to boost impact investing in the European Parliament this week, calling for closer collaboration between public, private and philanthropic actors to maximise impact.

The Venturesome Impact Fund will remain continuously open for applications, providing affordable funding to social purpose organisations in the UK.

Save the Children Global Ventures started out as a small-scale Australia-focused operation to show there was an appetite for “child-lens” investing. Now it’s taking advantage of a range of impact investing tools to scale up.

A new initiative aims to bring access to a wider range of impact investing tools and expertise to foundations and other philanthropic organisations looking to expand their involvement in impact investing.

Following years of lobbying, the introduction of a new framework will make it easier for charitable funds and family offices to make impact investments, FD reports.

Tom Hall, global head of social impact and philanthropy at UBS, tells Impact Investor that collective philanthropy is about more than just pooling financial resources to fund the world’s most urgent challenges.

The UK-based non-profit has launched a guide on using catalytic capital to create a fairer path to net zero. It is calling for over half of investment in climate-focused funds over the next five years to adopt a just transition approach.

Give two maverick academics an idea to kick around and you get some interesting insights. But when it comes to solutions, Christopher Walker was left wanting.

The annual PYM Impact Days gathering for wealth owners is taking place in Driebergen this weekend, under the title ‘Imagining the New Economy’.