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Small Companies, Big Impacts
The New Ventures country directors answer questions about what small, sustainable companies can do to boost local economies and protect the environment.
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Sustainability: Placing a Higher Value on Our Future
In Professor Gautam Kaul?s course ?Finance and the Sustainable Enterprise? at the Ross School of Business, we recently had a lengthy and very profound discussion on sustainability and interest rates. Yes, that?s right: interest rates. You didn?t read this wrong. (And please don?t stop reading now)
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Cornell Global Forum: What Gets Measured Gets Done
Although its purpose is explicitly action-oriented?the mission of the Forum is to accelerate the degree to which clean tech companies and BoP companies incubate clean technology at the BoP?I couldn’t wrap my head around how another big, centrally-planned talk shop ensconced in a tony New York locale could possibly do anything meaningful...
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Cornell Global Forum: BoP Inclusion Meets Environmental Sustainability
Rather than feeling exhausted after a 2 ? day conference on "The Great Convergence", I felt energized and enthusiastic about what appears to be a certain maturation or "coming of age" of this space. The idea that we cannot achieve inclusion of the BoP if we don’t consider how to do so with that environmental sustainability, and vice-versa...
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Social Investing Part 1: Risks, Returns, and Me
A lot of investors can give charitably, but cannot fathom making an investment in a social venture that does not have an appropriate risk-reward trade-off. So, what does this mean for social ventures? Will they never be able to attract the appropriate funding necessary to achieve significant scale?
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Is the Green-Base of the Pyramid Nexus Kicking In?
A couple of months ago, I suggested that the new trend in the development through enterprise space would be a growing interest in the cross-implications of poverty and the effects of climate change in the developing world. I’ve recently come across a couple of events that signal this could actually be happening.
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Root Capital Launches 5-Year, $63M Growth Capital Campaign
Root Capital announced today that it has launched a comprehensive Growth Capital Campaign that will significantly increase its capacity to serve rural grassroots businesses in developing countries by establishing a sustainable social enterprise and fully self-sufficient lending program by 2013. The five-year $63 million campaign includes a unique combination of Philanthropic Equity and Debt Capital and will accelerate the organization’s ability to impact global poverty by linking rural ...
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Agora Partnerships and Heroes of Development
As I learn more about entrepreneurship and job creation efforts I am increasingly convinced that we need a broader range of tools than either microcredit or social venture funding typically offer.? Recently Agora Partnerships caught my eye when they and their founder Ben Powell were awarded a Draper Richards Fellowship.
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