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Impact Investing Comes of Age: ImpactAlpha Rounds up Nine Stories Shaping the Marketplace
Impact investments represent some of the greatest wealth generating opportunities of our time, from the trillions needed to build a clean global energy grid, to the opportunities in delivering essential services to the emerging middle class. Here are nine recent developments that highlight the sector's growing significance, part of ImpactAlpha's ongoing collaboration with NextBillion.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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Weekly Roundup: The Death of a Salesman, a Megaphone for Mom, and a Target on BlackRock
Divestment activists in the gay community turn their sights on BlackRock, a tragic suicide reveals trouble in India's health care industry, and a new study shows the value of constructive nagging in this week's Roundup.
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- Health Care, Investing, Social Enterprise
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- impact investing
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Last Week for $200 SOCAP Discounts
If you’re an impact investor or social entrepreneur in need of a dose of inspiration, you won't want to miss SOCAP16, Sept. 13-16 at Fort Mason in San Francisco. This ninth annual event, the world’s largest conference dedicated to increasing the flow of capital toward social good, is expected to attract more than 2,500 change-makers from around the world.
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- Social Enterprise
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- impact investing
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A Roadmap that Bypasses the Public Health Care System
A year ago, uber Diagnostics commercially launched Cardiotrack, a handheld ECG monitor. Since then, the company has learned some hard lessons about inefficiencies in India's public health sector. In response, it started a program to provide ambulances with health diagnostics devices, plus a separate home health care service designed to generate jobs.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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The Olympics: Social Business Opportunity – or Expensive Distraction?
NB editor James Militzer can't stand the Olympics and he's found new reasons to especially hate this year's Games. Meanwhile, fellow editor Kyle Poplin loves the Olympics, thinks they're still relevant and that they can be used to solve global problems. Read their point-counterpoint and see where you come down on the spectrum.
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- Social Enterprise
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How to Land a $2 Million Social Venture Investment
About 1 billion people lack access to clean drinking water, and diarrhea, which is linked to inadequate drinking water and sanitation, kills more children than malaria, AIDS, and measles put together. Yet even effective products addressing this challenge have struggled with low uptake. Mercy Corps examines an enterprise that has bucked this trend, attracting investment through its innovative filtration method and business model.
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- Social Enterprise
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- impact investing
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Accelerating the Shift to a Sustainable Future: How Entrepreneurs Can Solve the World’s Greatest Challenges
For the past 11 years, Agora Partnerships has supported the efforts of purpose-driven entrepreneurs to change their communities, their countries and the world. It has now aligned its work with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, and its CEO, Ben Powell, discusses how those goals will affect its work.
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- Social Enterprise
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Impact Investing Conference at the Vatican: New Perspectives From Both Sides
The Second Vatican Conference on Impact Investing brought together leaders from the Catholic Church and impact investment communities to discuss the role of impact investing for the poor. The two groups found strong overlap not only in their shared goals of helping the poor, but also in the ways that they measure social impact.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing, Social Enterprise
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