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Twitter Top Ten
A new treasure trove of financial inclusion data.
A significant milestone for the B Corp movement.
And to coincide with tax day in the U.S., a handy guide on where to donate - and a thought-provoking post on the surprising way America’s tax system benefits the poor. These are just a few of the highlights of this week’s Twitter Top 10.- Categories
- Education, Energy, Environment, Health Care, Impact Assessment
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Clean Cookstoves Could Change the Lives of Millions in Nepal
When 26-year-old Laxmi married into the Archaya household in Chhaimale village, Pharping, south of Nepal’s capital Kathmandu, she didn’t think she would be spending half the day in the kitchen inhaling smoke from the stove.
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- Environment, Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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Shhh! Don’t Tell Institutional Investors, but Sustainability Drives Returns in Real Assets
ImpactAlpha.com - Dave Chen and his team at Equilibrium Capital in Portland, Ore., don't generally pitch pension funds and other institutional investors on the firm's thesis that environmentally and socially beneficial practices can drive operational efficiencies, reduced risk and above-market, or 'alpha,' returns.
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- Environment, Investing
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Bain Capital Hires Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick to Lead Its Social Impact Fund
Bain Capital, the $75 billion private equity firm founded by 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, hired former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick to lead a social impact fund.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Ikea’s Newly Designed Refugee Shelters Are a Game Changer
The units are spacious, have solar panels, and can last an average of three years.
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- Energy, Environment
- Region
- North Africa & Near East
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- social enterprise, solar
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Where Is the Rockefeller Family Reinvesting Its Former Oil Holdings?
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund—the $866 million-asset foundation started in 1940 by John D. Rockefeller Jr.’s five sons—announced in September that the family would divest itself of all their coal, tar-sands, and fossil-fuel investments held in the fund’s endowment. The eight Rockefeller family trustees on the board decided the fund needed “to better align its endowed assets with its mission” of combating climate change.
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- Energy, Environment
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Wells Fargo Selects Clean Technology Startups for Innovation
$10 million program to help four winning companies develop energy-efficient smart glass, cooling, battery and smart metering technologies.
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- Energy, Environment, Technology
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Heifer Awarded $750,000 From Starbucks Foundation to Support Coffee Farmers in Tanzania
Heifer International was awarded a Starbucks Foundation grant of $750,000 to help fund the Mbozi Farmer Livelihood Improvement Project in Tanzania, which will help improve livelihoods and quality of life for smallholder coffee growing communities in the East African country.
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- Agriculture, Environment
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing