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Watch the Replay of our Google Hangout with Margot Kane: A Q&A with Calvert Foundation’s VP of Strategic Initiatives
Margot Kane is VP of Strategic Initiatives at Calvert Foundation. She manages strategy development, fundraising and implementation of new investment initiatives and portfolios that target key impact areas like the revitalization of iconic cities. We discussed these initiatives and other impact investing topics in this live interview.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- impact investing
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Sustainable Access to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation: Lessons learned from market-based approaches in India
After working with a number of key players in the water and sanitation business, the author, Urvashi Prasad, has compiled a list of factors that could enable for-profit players to fulfill the dual objectives of making profits and doing social good by bringing essential services to people who need them the most.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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Three Steps to Jumpstart Mobile Finance: Step 1 – Researching smallholders’ financial behavior to help them transition to mobile payments
It’s becoming increasingly clear that cash payment schemes are obsolete in the 21st century, says Lee Babcock. And in agriculture, there’s a growing recognition that enabling digital payments to smallholders is a huge opportunity, both for farmers and the mobile finance sector. In this three-part series, Babcock lays out three steps for embedding mobile money into agriculture development at the BoP.
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- Agriculture
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Innovations in Education: What CEI has learned in its first year, and what’s ahead
In its first year, the Center for Education Innovations has documented close to 500 programs serving the poor in more than 135 countries. Next up: Understanding more about what works, why and how.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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What Motivates an Impact Angel?: Clearly Social Angels, the UK’s first impact-focused angel investing group, discusses what these investors are looking for
Why does someone become an impact angel investor – and is this a source of capital your company might tap? Though impact angel investing is still relatively new, the experience of pioneer investors can provide a better idea of what they’re looking for. Clare Jones of ClearlySo discusses lessons learned through Clearly Social Angels, the UK’s first impact-focused angel investing group.
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- Social Enterprise
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- impact investing
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Leading From the Front: How we helped develop the Truelift Assessment Tool, and why MFIs should use it
There will always be skepticism about the microfinance industry’s initiatives to promote transparency. Nevertheless, Freedom from Hunger CEO Steve Hollingworth says that organizations like his are working to refocus the sector on poor clients’ needs. He describes how Truelift, a global initiative to promote accountability and learning in pro-poor development, advances that goal.
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- Impact Assessment
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Moving Health Commodities in Africa: Private sector transport for public health systems
Transporting health commodities in Africa is challenging on many fronts, and it makes sense for some ministries of health to utilize private firms to get the job done. VillageReach has researched the possibilities and developed a set of recommendations to help government entities prepare for outsourcing.
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- Environment, Health Care
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NexThought Monday – Financial Inclusion and the Internet of Things: How Smart Machines Can Benefit the Poor
The Internet of Things refers to the use of technology to automate data transfer between objects via the Internet. It’s billed as a disruptive technology of the next decade, with applications that range from home automation to wearable fitness devices. But it also has great potential to benefit the poor, by enabling payment mechanisms that let the underbanked access basic products and services.
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- Energy, Technology, Telecommunications
