Impactalpha Lp/Gp: Catalytic Climate Finance Strategies For Family Foundations and Offices
Foundation: Rockefeller Foundation, Russell Family Foundation
Russell Family Foundation is a regional small fry among the giant global pension, insurance and sovereign wealth funds.To further strengthen its climate commitments, TRFF moved $19.3 million a year...more

This Family Foundation Is Trying to 'Meet the Moment' With All of Its $100 Million in Assets (Podcast)
Foundation: Russell Family Foundation
This family foundation is trying to 'meet the moment' with all of its $100 million in assets.The Russell Family Foundation is a regional small fry among the giant pension, insurance and sovereign...more

5 Percent of U.S. Foundations Invest for Impact
Foundation: Skoll Foundation, Nathan Cummings Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Russell Family Foundation, Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation
A study of 65 of the country's largest philanthropic foundations has found that just 5% invest their assets in something called impact investing, the Wall Street Journal reports. That's worth an...more

Nonprofits receive education grants
Foundation: Russell Family Foundation
The Russell Family Foundation recently announced the recipients of $700,000 in grants from its Environmental Education Fund. The grants to...more

The Brief: Small business financing lessons, Draper Richards Kaplan in Europe, PayPal's bets on ...
Foundation: Russell Family Foundation
... Foundation launches $80 million fund for early-stage social entrepreneurs. ... “We structure our capital to follow the need of the entrepreneur and...more

The Week in impact investing: Scenarios
Foundation: MacArthur Foundation, Nathan Cummings Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Russell Family Foundation
... of tech innovation and impact investing. (Stripe this week acquired Nigerian payments company Paystack, a portfolio company of impact...more

The Russell Family Foundation Names Kathleen Simpson CEO
Foundation: Russell Family Foundation
The Foundation's impact investing portfolio also has grown from 84% to 90% impact alignment, gaining traction toward the Foundation's 100%...more

The Russell Family Foundation Grants $520000 for a Healthier Puget Sound
Foundation: Russell Family Foundation
18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The Russell Family Foundation (TRFF) today announced nine grants totaling $520,000 to local community...more

The Russell Family Foundation Distributes $175000 in Flexible Funding to Six Puget Sound ...
Foundation: Russell Family Foundation
Grants range from supporting Degrees of Change to increase access to and persistence in college to helping Hilltop Artists sustain its glassblowing...more

The Russell Family Foundation Announces $1 Million for COVID-19 Emergency Response in ...
Foundation: Ocean Foundation, Russell Family Foundation
These announcements were accompanied by an additional COVID-19 grant that supports increased rapid testing capabilities as well as a new...more