Andy Posner
Providence
I'm a social entreprenuer acting at the intereection between social and environmental problems
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An Open Letter to Elon Musk: For the Sake of the Public Good, Turn Twitter Into a Nonprofit
Dear Mr. Musk, I am the CEO of a nonprofit, and I have a proposal for you: Instead of merely rendering Twitter unprofitable, why not channel the disruptive innovation you’re famous for and turn the social-media platform into an actual nonprofit? Hear me out. During your brief tenure at its helm, more than half of Twitter’s staffhave quit or been fired, and your whimsical antics are scaring away advertisers in droves.
How Social Sector Organizations Can Design Human Connections in the Digital Age
Webinar price: $69 Price includes access to live webinar & 1 year video recording Leadership Presented by Holly May Mahoney and Matthew McStravick Moderated by Aaron Bady Date Wednesday, March 24, 2021 Time 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. PT / 2-3:30 p.m. ET This 90-minute interactive SSIR Live! webinar-workshop will include: An introduction to the principles, conditions, and methods of the “Human Connection Framework” A walk-through of the human-centered design thinking process, showcasing co-creation...
An Open Letter to the Board of Governors of the USPS
Board of Directors of the United States Postal Service Postal Service Headquarters 475 L’Enfant Plaza SW Washington, DC 20260 To the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service, I write to express my shock and dismay at the steps that have recently been taken by the Postmaster General to neuter the beloved United States Postal Service, on which tens of millions of Americans like me rely and which will serve as the lynchpin for a safe and fair election in November.
Millennial Workforce Tackles Poverty
When I founded the Capital Good Fund in February 2009, I was driven by two simple observations. First, that predatory consumer financial services harm the most vulnerable populations in the U.S.; and second, that there are precious few equitable alternatives to payday lenders, pawnshops, rent-to-own stores, and other subprime lenders that represent a $200 billion industry. Fast-forward 11 years, and Good Fund has issued over 4,500 personal loans totaling $10 million, with a 95% repayment rate.
Innovation in Community Impact Investing
tweet me: Innovation in Community Impact Investing by Andy Posner, founder, Capital Good Fund -- http://bit.ly/33XBRzT || #impactinvesting #esg #impinv #foundations #philanthropy Multimedia from this Release by Andy Posner, founder, Capital Good Fund According to US SIF: The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investing, Socially Responsible Investing (“SRI”) has reached the $12 trillion asset mark.
Innovation in Community Impact Investing
by Andy Posner, founder, Capital Good Fund According to US SIF: The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investing, Socially Responsible Investing (“SRI”) has reached the $12 trillion asset mark. Unfortunately, the vast majority — 97 percent, to be precise — comprises investments in the traditional capital markets in which decisions are made using Environmental, Social, or Governance (“ESG”) criteria.
Innovation in Community Impact Investing
According to US SIF: The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investing, Socially Responsible Investing (“SRI”) has reached the $12 trillion asset mark. Unfortunately, the vast majority — 97 percent, to be precise — comprises investments in the traditional capital markets in which decisions are made using Environmental, Social, or Governance (“ESG”) criteria.
In Our Broken Economic System, All Nonprofits Face the ‘Sackler’ Donation Question (Opinion)
Opinion May 20, 2019 PREMIUM CONTENT FOR SUBSCRIBERS. SUBSCRIBE TODAY By Andy Posner Founder of the Capital Good Fund Erin Clark/The Boston Globe/Getty Images Photographer Nan Goldin leads a demonstration at Harvard University protesting Sackler philanthropy at the art museum. Purdue Pharma is the company that brought OxyContin to market and now stands accused of helping to spawn the opioid crisis that has devastated the lives of millions of Americans.
Real innovation is in the implementation - Providence Business News
Real innovation is in the implementation Andy Posner founded Capital Good Fund while still a student at Brown University, where he studied financing mechanisms for clean energy and earned a master of arts in environmental studies. He founded the nonprofit with an eye toward using financial services to tackle endemic poverty, first in Rhode Island and then nationwide.
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