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City of God’s Plan for Financial Inclusion
Isolation and lack of economic opportunity made The City of God community susceptible to drugs and violence, issues spotlighted by the 2002 movie. But soon, CDD as it’s known, will have its own bank and currency. Modeled after Banco Palmas, a bank established in Fortaleza, CDD’s community bank will be the first of its kind in Rio de Janeiro.
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Unreasonable Investor Day (And Night)
Set for July 18 at the Hub SoMa, a Bay Area social ventures incubator, is culmination of the six-week Unreasonable Institute in Boulder, CO. Before anyone breaks out the sleeping bags, Unreasonable Institute will host a pitch event involving 26 of the Unreasonable fellows and up to 100 impact investors in attendance.
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Does Fighting for the Cause Actually Solve the Problem?
My biggest advice to entrepreneurs looking to do something purposeful: build a model which ’never’ sacrifices commercial profit for ’purpose’ or vice-versa. I believe that the most impactful businesses in the 21st century will maximize both. If you are looking to create a purposeful business, then focus your energies on the for-profit first.
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The Argument for a Single Bottom Line
What if you were able to link social investments to bottom line ROI? Jonathan Berman and Daniel Altman of Dalberg Global Development Advisors recently presented this argument in "The Single Bottom Line." They say companies don’t need to focus on a double or triple bottom line in order to justify doing good - if they change their time horizons.
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NexThought Monday: How to Eat Your Chocolate and Advance Development, Too
According to Global Financial Integrity, developing countries lost billions per year from 2000 to 2008 in money that is illegally earned, transferred or utilized, with a large portion coming from conflict cocoa. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there was a way to stop or limit funding conflict while eating chocolate too? Well, there is.
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Friday Roundup 7-8-11: The Wisdom of the Crowds (Funding)
We’ve been talking about the promise and, as some see it, the perils of Impact Investing this week and continuing through the month, on our newly launched Big Idea Page. Whether technically "impact" investing or not, the week saw several major deals break for socially inclined enterprises.
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Making the Global Ad Market Work for the BoP, One Bike At a Time
Global advertising spending is forecast to surpass $500 billion in 2011. When Coca Cola paints a roadside kiosk in Kikuyu, they’re paying someone. Why doesn’t that someone include you? That’s the question social entrepreneur Magali Bongrand asked in founding INSTINCT - a social enterprise leveraging corporate ad money to finance social ventures.
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8 Lessons for Creating an Impact Investing Fund
The beginning of this year saw the official launch of Adobe Capital and the formal start of the process of obtaining investors. After several months of submitting our proposal to the United States, Europe, and Latin America, we can now share some of the lessons from our process. We hope our journey will help other funds interested in the segment.
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