David Bank

The alarm bells going off around rogue agents, bioterror plots and extinction scenarios give us a picture of what Anthropic's Dario Amodei calls the “wrong paths” for artificial intelligence.

The $6 billion Walton Family Foundation, long a major grant funder of environmental initiatives, is adding loans, guarantees and other impact investments to its toolkit through a new, $25 million Water and Nature Fund.

When the Pro-Human AI Coalition was launched this week in Washington DC by more than 50 organizations concerned about the runaway development of AI, few investors were on hand.

Many next-generation Agents of Impact take the first steps on their impact investing journeys through some part of the network of organizations built by Utah investor and entrepreneur Jim Sorenson.

Next month's GIIN Impact Forum will be the last under the leadership of Amit Bouri , who is stepping down after leading the Global Impact Investor Network for 17 years.

Two months before the 2016 election, Fran Seegull (with Nancy Pfund of DBL Partners) wrote an open letter in the pages of ImpactAlpha to Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump

When COVID restrictions kept her parents abroad, Xenia Viragh became the primary family caregiver for her 94-year-old grandmother, who had battled dementia for more than a decade.

With rising threats and opportunities in the areas it most cares about, the $10 billion MacArthur Foundation is stepping up both its impact investing and its grantmaking through 2028.

Mission Driven Finance and Known Holdings are combining their offerings for impact-oriented fund managers, a prelude to a larger collaboration intended to provide the scope and scale needed to attract larger pools of capital.

The Catalytic Capital Consortium, or C3, has demonstrated that collaboration among philanthropic funders can increase both the quantity and quality