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Tools of the Trade: Building a Robust Deal Pipeline of Impact Companies in Emerging Economies (Part 1)
Investors in the impact investing space say they want to see more high quality deals and more companies with a successful investment track records that are quantifiably measuring impact. Apparently, billions of dollars of investment capital could be poised and ready if these three issues can be addressed
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- Education, Environment, Impact Assessment
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Five Years Since Launching, Opportunities for the Majority Sees Buy-In for BoP
Today, we’re spotlighting Opportunities for the Majority (OMJ), created by the Inter-American Development Bank. In less than five years since its launch, OMJ has taken a multi-sector approach to financial inclusion by providing loans, grants, and financing 33 projects and corporate deals valued at more than $200 million.
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- Uncategorized
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NexThought Monday: Before Jumping Into Crowd Funding, Remember There’s No Free Lunch
The aggregate of ‘the crowd’ giving or investing small amounts can add up to a meaningful total. Dozens of websites offer platforms for you to raise money. Amounts are small, as low as $10, and many of these sites work with donations. DONATIONS? For a business? Sounds like free money, right? But remember, there is no free lunch.
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- Technology
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Weekly Roundup: HCD Connect Takes Human-Centered Design to the Hive
Launched on Wednesday with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and IDEO.org - the nonprofit initiative from design firm IDEO - HCD Connect is a new hive for problem solvers. The platform aims to make human-centered design relatable, understandable and infinitely shareable.
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- Education, Technology
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Will Lower Mobile Money Fees in Kenya, Tanzania be Enough to Stimulate Micropayments?
Many cite the high cost of electronic transfers as a key market barrier to leveraging mobile money platforms and enabling retail payments or other financial services to the poor. (See a previous post on that subject here). But recently, two leading mobile money providers in Kenya and Tanzania lowered their prices for small-value transfers.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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At the 2012 Clinton Global Initiative University: ‘Talent is Universal: Opportunity is Not’
Last weekend over 1,000 students from around the world gathered on the campus of the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. for the 2012 Clinton Global Initiative University. To get there, each of them had to make a commitment to action. From tracking cholera epidemics in Bangladesh, to reducing delinquency among disadvantaged young women in Arkansas through mentoring and coaching, to creating awareness about campus sustainability issues in Florida,
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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Announcing Our New E-book: THE Big IDEA: Global Spread of Affordable Housing
Our affordable housing series from late 2011 was a special project, and we wanted to do something special to match it. So, along with our Content Partner Ashoka, we’re excited to announce the publication of our new e-book: The BIG IDEA: Global Spread of Affordable Housing.
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- Social Enterprise
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- housing
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ANDE at 3: Reflecting on the SGB Mission
One of the biggest challenges the sector still faces is connecting entrepreneurs with the right type of capital at the right time. As ANDE evolves we have come to find that the missing middle itself has a missing part—because even in our network of members, very few are able to provide financing at the critical $25,000 - $200,000 range.
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- Investing
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- impact investing
