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Summer of Impact Investing: ImpactAlpha Flags 10 Recent Developments Shaping the Sector
In July, NextBillion launched a collaboration with ImpactAlpha to highlight coverage of the top stories, leaders and trends in impact investing. This article, which appeared on July 12, proved to be the most popular post that month, and is entered in this year's Most Influential Post of 2016 contest. We're publishing a new entrant in the contest every day through Jan. 2; be sure to vote for your favorite.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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Social Business Roundup: My Ivory Tower or Yours? Will Cash-strapped Pensions Turn Back to ‘Sin Stocks’?
In the weekly roundup, the CEO of the School for Social Entrepreneurs (SSE) in London says universities shouldn’t teach social entrepreneurship because they aren’t accessible to all; namely, poor people who are often best positioned to help solve social problems in their own neighborhoods. But there's a flaw in his logic. And on Monday, CalPERS, the U.S.'s largest public pension fund, will meet to decide whether to end its 16-year-old policy of divesting from tobacco stocks. Is the tide starting to turn against ESG investments among public pension funds?
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- Education, Investing, Social Enterprise
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- ESG, impact investing
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How Social Enterprises and Impact Investors Can Move the Needle to Achieve the SDGs
Betting on social entrepreneurship to accelerate the implementation of the SDGs makes sense from an impact and a financial return perspective, but the sector requires both financial and non-financial support. To put it simply, entrepreneurs need to unlock three doors: finance, market and talent.
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- Investing
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- data, impact bonds, impact investing, innovation, scale
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Weekly Roundup: PSI for Profit, a Slowing ‘Pulse’ in Africa and Medical Tourism on Steroids
The non-profit Population Services International (PSI) announces the launch of a for-profit business in India, sub-Saharan Africa braces for "the lowest growth in more than 20 years," and Obamacare generates some unintended – and potentially exciting – consequences. We discuss these and other issues in our weekly roundup of social business and global development news.
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- Health Care, Investing, Social Enterprise
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‘A Sweet Spot for Impact Investing’: Omidyar Network’s Roopa Kudva discusses India’s Growing Prominence
There was a surprising amount of tension on SOCAP's panel on impact investing in India, much of it revolving around a simple question: Are these investments making a difference? As one panelist put it, "Just because you're doing it, doesn't mean it's actually helping." Roopa Kudva, a partner at Omidyar Network, sat on the panel, and afterward she shared her views on this question, and on the impact sector's growing prominence in India, in a video Q&A.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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- impact investing
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Our Full Slate of Videos with Impact Investing Thought Leaders from SOCAP16
The Social Capital Markets Conference (SOCAP) for 2016 is a wrap. But if you missed any of our live one-on-one interviews with some of the newsmakers and trendsetters, we've got you covered. Here, in reverse chronological order, is our full lineup of Facebook Live interviews from last week.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing, Social Enterprise
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- impact investing
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Weekly Roundup: Hippies vs. Capitalists at SOCAP, Data (and Honors) for Social Entrepreneurs and a ‘What’ for WHO
We're betting that, even if you're a social entrepreneur, the new Thomson Reuters Foundation poll about your profession contains information you didn't know. Read more about the poll in this week's Roundup, along with “the most effective social entrepreneurs on the planet”; advice for WHO; and some final thoughts from SOCAP.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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- impact investing
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Facebook Live from SOCAP
NextBillion will broadcast a series of interviews from SOCAP16 through Facebook Live, starting later today and continuing throughout the conference. Join us!
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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- impact investing
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