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Weekly Roundup 10-23-15: Impact Investing Recovers from ‘The Cooties’
Most people don’t associate Department of Labor policy changes with excitement. But this week’s announcement of changes to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) has primed the impact investing movement to party like it’s 1994. We explore the move in this roundup, along with some inspiring words on what every social entrepreneur should ask themselves, and some critical points on business school ethics.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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When It Doesn’t Make Sense NOT to Invest: Tyler Norris of Kaiser Permanente on healthy communities and creating change
Tyler Norris, vice president of Total Health Partnerships at Kaiser Permanente, has spent more than three decades promoting better health, working in the public, private, nonprofit and civic sectors. A lot of his ideas are framed around the concept that healthy communities lead to healthy people and, therefore, community health should be a big part of impact investing.
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- Health Care
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(UPDATED) Weekly Roundup 10-2-15: Kiva Zip folds in Kenya – what happened? Updated with a Kiva Zip response
Kiva Zip was launched in 2011 to considerable acclaim, and its dual operations in the U.S. and Kenya appeared to be progressing smoothly. But recently, Kiva Zip announced that it is winding down its Kenyan operations. What happened, and what does it mean for the future of the direct person-to-person lending approach in microfinance? Kiva Zip's senior director responds.
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The State of Assessment: Moving the conversation forward to accelerate value creation (Part 2 of 2)
Heather Esper and Yaquta Kanchwala Fatehi of the William Davidson Institute say it's time to stop debating whether businesses should assess social, economic and/or environmental impact, and move on to a conversation about how to extract the most value. They even offer five core activities to accelerate that value.
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- Impact Assessment
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HIV Self Test in 15 Minutes: BioSure’s kit is based on the precedent set by home pregnancy exams
The longer the HIV virus goes untreated, the fewer the chances of successful care. BioSure's HIV self-testing kit yields results in 15 minutes, giving people more control of their health. It's already been introduced in Europe, and BioSure is hoping to test it soon in emerging and developing markets, where HIV transmission poses a significant health challenge.
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- Health Care
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NexThought Monday: Four Steps to Unlock the Potential of Impact Investing: SOCAP15 conference highlights critical areas where the sector should focus
The excitement about the growing impact investing field was palpable at the recent SOCAP15 conference, as evidence accumulates that it is moving from the margins to the mainstream. But in spite of this momentum, the sector still has far to go to reach its full potential. Based on conversations and panel discussions at SOCAP15, here are four areas that impact investing should address.
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- Social Enterprise
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Weekly Roundup 10-16-15: The built-in drama of SOCAP
The world of double-bottom-line investment is still in its infancy, relatively speaking, and it’s growing. The key players are still trying to understand each others’ motivations and how best to work together. That intricate, evolving dance between investors and investees is, at the end of the day, what SOCAP is all about, and why it’s so compelling.
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- Energy, Environment
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Banking on Refugees: Helping those affected by global conflict to establish an ID and a lifeline to financial services
For many refugees, especially those who have been forced to quickly and unexpectedly leave their homes, establishing who they are is a challenge. To raise awareness of this critical situation, the Digital Finance Institute, a think tank for financial technology, is working on a financial inclusion project called “Banking on Refugees.”
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