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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Venture philanthropy"”.
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Venture Philanthropy: A Case Study of Three Nonprofit Organizations
<p>Beginning in the 1990s, a new kind of philanthropy emerged that was formulated on the premise of merging philanthropy with investing. The concept of turning philanthropy into social investing was coined venture philanthropy and has received substantial attention since its inception. Generally …
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Investing in Education: Venture Philanthropy and the Marketized Practice of Educational Improvement
… to business practices and market-based reforms. Venture Philanthropy (VP), draws its practices directly from the financial sector, using strategic investment to increase the capacity and achievement of funded organizations and to promote social goals. VP firms are increasingly a part of the …
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Nonprofit disease foundation investments in biotechnology companies : an evaluation of venture philanthropy
In the past decade, the practice of venture philanthropy, defined in this research as the provision of capital by a nonprofit entity to a for-profit company, has become an increasingly common asset allocation strategy for nonprofit disease-focused foundations.' Both nonprofit organizations and …
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Best practices for venture philanthropy collaborations between disease-focused foundations and for-profit life science companies by Joanne Chang.
The history of private philanthropy in the US has been dominated by family foundations with arms-length philanthropy practices that largely existed in separation from commercial enterprise and business operations. This paper looks at emerging organizational and funding models being used in a wide …
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Venturing into public good: from venture capital to the creation of state-supported venture philanthropy and its implications for third sector financing
… and spatial impact of the financial sector. Venture capital firms have been a focus, generating a contested but deep literature around the roles of such “value-adding” capital providers in supporting the growth of firms, industries, and various territorial innovation models. In parallel, …
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Institutional influence on the manifestation of entrepreneurial orientation: A case of social investment funders
… social investment funders (SIF), which integrate philanthropy and venture capital investment to create and implement a venture philanthropy model for a pursuit of their mission. A theoretical framework is developed to propose regulative and normative pressures from two dominant institutions …
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New financing and business models to accelerate the development of novel therapeutics
… we evaluate and profile examples of venture philanthropy and academic-industry partnerships as sources of financial capital for early stage assets. In addition, we identify a "one-disease" business model in biotechnology that can mitigate risk and accelerate the translation of …