Program-Related Investment News and Ideas

Selected program-related investment information from around the Web.

Why "What comes to mind anytime this company called NSITF (National Social Insurance Trust Fund in Nigeria Must Be Repositioned As Social Insurance

"What comes to mind anytime this company called NSITF (National Social Insurance Trust Fund) comes up in the news? Fraud." That's what a businessman in Nigeria has to say about the country's social...more

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia To Grace Ssi Awards 2022 €¦ As More Than 40 ...

When it comes to environmental issues, Ghana's Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is no stranger. That's because he's the father of the country's current vice president, Dr. Mahamudu...more

Community Foundation Adds Community Investing Program
Foundation: Hutchinson Community Foundation, Kansas Health Foundation, Topeka Community Foundation

"We are no longer your grandfather's community foundation because when community foundations started, they were basically philanthropic granting organizations," Elizabeth Weese, executive director of...more

Dormant Funds Help Deliver £97m Social Investment Boost To The West Midlands

The UK's Department for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport is asking for the public's help in determining how the country's nearly $1 billion in "dormant assets" should be spent. The funds, which...more

A £17m Boost For Tees Valley and Other Distressed Areas

There was money sitting in dormant bank accounts in the UK until a decade ago, but it's now being used to create jobs and improve the lives of people in some of the country's poorest areas, the...more

Npower Batch C, Stream 2 to Officially Begin Operations in October 2022

Flights to and from Nigeria have been suspended by the country's civil aviation authority over what it calls the airline's "non-remittance of more than N1.2 billion." The Guardian reports that...more

Dimagi receives $25 million to develop transformative technology for Frontline Workers

The Steele Foundation for Hope has poured $25 million into a Massachusetts-based tech company that hopes to revolutionize the way community health workers around the world do their jobs. Dimagi, a...more

Government secures $30m AfDB grants for post-Covid-19 recovery project

The West African country of Ghana has received $30 million from the African Development Bank to help its youth and small-business owners deal with the effects of the Covid-19 virus. The money...more

The hot race to Aso Rock Villa

"We are starved of heroes," Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wrote in her keynote address at the Nigerian Bar Association's annual conference last week. "Our young people do not find people to look up to...more

Kaduna Govt., Gender Centre To Entrench Gender-responsive Budgeting, Service Delivery
Foundation: Gates Foundation

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is giving Nigeria's Kaduna State some much-needed help in the area of gender-responsive budgeting, the Guardian reports. The foundation's Gender Center of...more




PRI News from...


Kresge Foundation

Ganesh Natarajan is the Founder and Chairman of 5FWorld, a new platform for funding and developing start-ups, social enterprises and the skills eco-system in India. In the past two decades, he has built two of India’s high-growth software services companies – Aptech and Zensar – almost from scratch to global success.




Social Sector Jobs

  Social Services Jobs
  Education Jobs
  Foundation Related Jobs
  Fundraising & Development Jobs
  Social Services Employment


Federal Government Grant and Assistance Programs


General Research and Technology Activity | Renewable Energy Research and Development | RECOVERY ACT STATE VICTIM ASSISTANCE FORMULA GRANT PROGRAM | Southeastern Multi-Media and Geographic Priority Projects | Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers Policy Research Center | Mortgage Insurance_Housing in Older, Declining Areas | Baccalaureate Degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Critical Foreign Languag | Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District Battlefield Acquisition and Protection | | Site Style by YAML | Grants.gov | Grants | Grants News | Sitemap | Privacy Policy

Edited by: Michael Saunders

© 2008-2024 Copyright Michael Saunders