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Mainstreaming the Movement: Toniic CEO Stephanie Cohn Rupp discusses the future of impact investing
"Eventually, I think the victory will be when everyone who is investing ... can put their capital into impact," says Toniic CEO Stephanie Cohn Rupp. But can retail investors accurately assess their investments’ social impact? Is it responsible for pensions or IRAs to offer impact options? And which investments should qualify as "impact"? In part two of our Q&A, Cohn Rupp discusses these and other questions.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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NexThought Monday – Can Investing in the Rich Serve the Poor?
Investors are increasingly looking at health care in developing countries as an investable sector instead of one dependent on government or philanthropic subsidy, making it more important to find business models that work to ensure the market dynamics are favorable for investment.
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- Health Care, Investing
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Weekly Roundup – 6/7/2014: Experience is winning the battle with theory, and that’s good news for social enterprises
More college students are studying abroad, interning and volunteering in an effort to pad their resume, but also to get the personalized education they desire. It could be argued that this is good news for social enterprises focused on health care.
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- Education, Health Care
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Wireless Currency, Endless Possibility: Seven promising mobile money projects to emerge from BRAC’s challenge
BRAC’s Social Innovation Lab launched the Innovation fund for mobile money in March to explore new possibilities and create the necessary space for innovations using mobile money within BRAC in Bangladesh. The challenge drew an enthusiastic response from people, receiving 100 wide-ranging ideas in just five weeks. Following a rigorous selection process, seven ideas that showed the most potential were chosen for implementation.
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- Technology
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How Abandoned Houses Are Creating a Golden Opportunity: An Interview With Antonio Díaz, Founder and CEO of Provive
Erik Simanis, managing director of Market Creation Strategies at the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise at Cornell University, says BoP scholars and managers (himself included) became so preoccupied with the social mission that they lost sight of business fundamentals and the realities of working within corporations. But, he sees an upside.
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- Education
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Beyond the Aid Debate: Getting smarter about how markets and charity work together is job one for those working in development
"It is time we break through the false dichotomies between for-profit and nonprofit and dive into more realistic issues like how to blend two approaches, how one approach can support the other and where tensions between the two approaches exist," says Blair Miller, vice president of the Millennium Development Goals Health Alliance.
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- Environment, Health Care
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What Makes Toniic Tick? Part One of an Interview With Stephanie Cohn Rupp, CEO of the Impact Investor Network
Investing for social impact can be a risky business, and it helps if impact investors can leverage the knowledge of like-minded peers. Toniic, a global network of impact investors, aims to facilitate those interactions, bringing social entrepreneurs and investors together for the benefit of both. NextBillion Financial Innovation recently spoke with Toniic CEO Stephanie Cohn Rupp to discuss its approach, and the evolution of the sector.
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- Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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Bold Ideas for Big Shifts in Global Health: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awards its Grand Challenges Explorations grants
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation made Grand Challenges Explorations grants – some for $100,000 for Phase I grants and others for $1 million for Phase II grants – to fund scientific work on unproven ideas that could solve major global health and development problems.
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- Health Care
