Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training. CompassPoint. Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training. Principles for Responsible Investment | PRI Report on Progress 2009. The Principles for Investors in Inclusive Finance (PIIF) provide a framework for responsible investment in inclusive finance. The PIIF are housed within the Principles for Responsible Investment and were established in January 2011 on the initiative of investors and Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima of the Netherlands in her role as UN Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development.
The group developed the PIIF together with the PRI Initiative, the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) and key industry players, and launched with the support of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In signing the Principles, investors commit to: The launch of the Principles for Investors in Inclusive Finance. For more information on the PIIF and how to sign, please download the information pack.
The PIIF are organised as a distinct work stream within the PRI Initiative. Download a copy of the full text of the Principles for Investors in Inclusive Finance. Principles for Responsible Investment. The Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) initiative, convened by the United Nations Environment Program Finance Initiative and the UN Global Compact, announces this week on its first anniversary that it has achieved over 180 leading institutional signatories from all round the globe, representing in excess of US$ 8 trillion in assets under management.
Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan presided over the North American launch on the 27th April 2006 at the New York Stock Exchange. 20 mainstream institutional asset owners representing USD 2 trillion signed up. The European launch by James Plaskitt, Under-Secretary for the UK Department for Work and Pensions took place a week later in Paris.
Since then, it has grown to 183 signatories. “We have great buy-in from the investment community, and we now have in place the support structures to assist in implementation. So year two is about action.” The PRI is also gaining strong momentum in emerging markets. Partner UN agencies. Finance Initiative Bankers Alliance. Latin America bankers fast-track transition to sustainability with new partnership with the United Nations Region opening to sustainability with landmark UN conference approaching Bogotá/Geneva, 14 July 2011 – Latin America’s largest banking association, FELABAN, joined forces with the United Nations this Thursday as it unveiled a first-of-its-kind partnership that will plant the seeds for improved financial sustainability across the region.
The announcement of a formal collaboration between the Latin American Federation of Banks (FELABAN) – which represents over 500 banks in 19 countries in South and Central America – and the United Nations Environmental Programme’s Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) signals a renewed commitment by Latin American bankers to the fast-tracking of sustainability in their industry, both institutions stressed. Increased capacity-building of banking practitioners across the continent should follow as both organizations pool their resources and know-how. SEFI: UNEP Sustainable Energy Finance Initiative.
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) - Home page. Principles for Responsible Investment - Official Home. A Commitment to the Arts That Will Transform Communities « Art Works. Grants | Congressman Bob Filner. Many worthwhile projects require financial assistance. With funding cutbacks and competition for grants becoming more intense, it is often necessary to find alternative sources of support. This page provides access to information on finding appropriate sources of federal and private funding. If you live in California's 51st District and wish to contact me about a grant, please contact the Grants Coordinator in my community office: 333 F Street, Suite A Chula Vista, CA 91910 Phone: (619) 422-5963 Fax: (619) 422-7290 The following are several helpful Web sites: Grants.gov A simple, unified “storefront” for all customers of Federal grants to electronically find, apply for, and manage grants.
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Database of all federal programs available to state and local governments, federally-recognized Indian tribal governments, domestic public, quasi-public, private profit or non-profit organizations and institutions, specialized groups, and individuals. U.S. LeveragingPartnership.pdf (application/pdf Object) Partnership for Sustainable Communities. The Partnership agencies periodically offer funding opportunities. When these grants are offered, they will be announced here and on www.grants.gov.
In addition, each agency maintains websites to track their own grant announcements. The grants announced on these sites will also be on www.grants.gov. HUD offers funding opportunities to help communities realize their own visions for building more livable, walkable, and environmentally sustainable regions. In addition, EPA maintains a listing of additional funding sources to build sustainable communities. National Endowment for the Arts Our Town Program Now available on the NEA website are guidelines and application materials for Our Town, the agency's primary creative placemaking grants program. Our Town will invest in creative and innovative projects in which communities, together with arts and/or design organizations and artists, seek to: On-Going Federal Programs The Partnership agencies and the U.S.
ArtPlace LOI Webinar. Intersection4thearts's Channel. Intersection for the Arts. The Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Artist Trust. Grantmakers in the Arts | Supporting a Creative America. National Endowment for the Arts Home Page. Research Grant Programs & Fundraising | Foundation Center.
Arts & Healing Network - home. National Endowment for the Arts Home Page. Americans for the Arts. Puffin Foundation. Creative Capital. The National Endowment for the Humanities. Our Town. If you have questions about an Our Town application, please contact OT@arts.gov Art works to improve the lives of America’s citizens in many ways. Communities across our nation are leveraging the arts and engaging design to make their communities more livable with enhanced quality of life, increased creative activity, a distinct sense of place, and vibrant local economies that together capitalize on their existing assets. The NEA defines these efforts as the process of Creative Placemaking: "In creative placemaking, partners from public, private, nonprofit, and community sectors strategically shape the physical and social character of a neighborhood, town, tribe, city, or region around arts and cultural activities.
Ann Markusen, Markusen Economic Research Services Anne Gadwa Nicodemus, Metris Arts Consulting From Creative Placemaking Organizations may apply for creative placemaking projects that contribute to the livability of communities and place the arts at their core. ArtPlace. The 5M Project | ArtPlace. Intersection for the Arts becomes partner in innovation and community development with social entrepreneurs and tech start-ups at 5M. Intersection for the Arts and Forest City Development have forged a unique partnership rooted in a shared belief that art and creativity realized through meaningful, inclusive, and collaborative places fuels vibrancy and facilitates positive change. Together, we are working on a four-acre multi-phase, mixed-use development project called 5M. Located at the intersection of several beautifully distinct neighborhoods in the middle of downtown San Francisco, 5m is a prototype for the next generation of urban development that embraces diversity of thought, life experience and culture as essential to positive economic and social change in our neighborhoods.
With 5M, we propose that art – creative collaboration, placemaking, and problem solving – builds understanding and community, celebrates and mobilizes neighborhood assets, and drives inclusive change.