Articles by Scott Anderson
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Thursday
December 15
2016Next Up for Impact Investing: ‘Solve for Market Demand, Not Investor Preferences’
Pioneers in the impact investing field have always wanted to take the movement mainstream. Well, they're getting there. Attendees at the Global Impact Investing Network's Investor Forum 2016 in Amsterdam, when compared to the 2013 forum in London, included more fund managers, more wealthy family advisors and large foundations, more big money people. Now comes education for the bigger players eager to get involved.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Thursday
December 8
2016Impact Investing Buzz: GIIN and Toniic Mix with Growth Reports
The knock on impact investing – both within and outside of the industry – is the lack of long-term data and platforms to observe deals in a more transparent way. The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) and Toniic, arguably the industry’s most influential trade groups, both released studies designed to turn around some of those perceptions. The reports were unveiled at the GIIN Investor Forum 2016 on Wednesday in Amsterdam.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- impact investing, research
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Friday
December 2
2016James Militzer / Kyle Poplin / Scott Anderson
Weekly Roundup: India’s Demonetization Gets Ugly, Health Care’s Last Mile Gets Shorter and Coke Comes to Gaza
Indian Prime Minister Modi’s surprise move to ban 1,000 and 500-rupee notes early last month, ostensibly to crack down on black money, has mushroomed into a full-blown crisis. Are the financial inclusion benefits worth the cost? We explore this and many other topics in the roundup.
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- Health Care, Investing
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Friday
November 18
2016Weekly Roundup: Mossy Green Solutions, Trickle-up Economics, World Toilet Day Woes
What’s innovative about moss, and how can the flowerless plant help pull people out of poverty? Electric vehicles can change the world if they’re adopted by those living at the base of the pyramid? Should all social venture investors separate financial from social impacts in their annual reports? Several questions and a few answers in this week's roundup.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Environment
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Monday
November 14
2016MovingWorlds’ Next Move In Social Enterprise ‘Experteering’
The developing talent is perhaps the biggest challenge for social enterprises. No matter how well-rounded the team, there are just going to be skills that prove elusive. MovingWorlds, a platform for connecting social business novices with established business people was formed four years ago to bridge that gap. This month the firm launched MovingWorlds Institute to help skilled professionals transition to social impact careers.
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- Education
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Guest Articles
Friday
November 11
2016James Militzer / Scott Anderson / Kyle Poplin
Weekly Roundup: Social Impact Sector Reacts to Trump With Fear, Uncertainty … Room for Hope?
It may be hard to believe – and even harder for some to accept – but Donald Trump is now the most powerful man in the world. And like many, the social business and global development world was, shall we say, taken aback by his victory this week. As the new reality sinks in and leaders and commentators try to make sense of his election, we’ve compiled a few of their more memorable reactions.
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- Social Enterprise
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Friday
November 4
2016James Militzer / Kyle Poplin / Scott Anderson
Weekly Roundup: Jill Stein’s SRI Controversy; Culture Change as Opportunity; Mobile Money’s Hungry
The hubbub about Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein's insufficiently green investments might seem like a tempest in a teapot ... but it could signal an important shift; changing attitudes and rising disposable incomes in Kenya are opening possibilities for insurance firms; and research shows mobile money's driving a price revolution in international remittances. That, and more, in this week's Roundup.
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- Energy, Health Care, Investing, Technology
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Guest Articles
Friday
October 28
2016Scott Anderson / James Militzer / Kyle Poplin
Weekly Roundup: Pondering Vice President Bill Gates (Thanks, WikiLeaks), How Buyers Lag Sellers, and FICO Going Big – Real Big
Can you imagine Vice President Bill Gates? We can. That's only part of our Weekly Roundup, which also includes peeks at consumer purchases – or lack therof – from social enterprises; an effort to increase access to credit for over 3 billion people around the globe; and a program that had money, recognition and everything it needed to succeed – except customers.
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- Social Enterprise