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Affecting the Girl Effect: Inspired by TOMS and Warby Parker, SHEVA aims at empowerment
SHEVA has applied the buy-one-give-one business model to feminine hygiene products with the goal of educating and empowering women and girls.
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- Education, Environment, Health Care
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Impact Investing Can Help Foundations Avoid Obsolescence
John D. Rockefeller would never have considered abandoning the oil business. But that is exactly what some of his heirs did last fall. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, a family foundation with $860 million in assets and a long history of supporting environmental causes, announced it would divest itself of all fossil-fuel investments.
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- Environment
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Is Corporate Social Responsibility China’s Secret Weapon?
Today, we hear a great deal about Chinese M&A deals, Chinese money and investment pouring into diverse markets, and even Chinese loans being used to bail out struggling economies.
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- Environment
- Region
- South Asia
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Ethical Investments: Lack of Awareness Means Investors Are Supporting Industries They Oppose
Liz Berwick is a fairly typical saver. The 35-year-old mother of two hopes to put away around £3,000 this year by saving regularly into a tax-free Isa. The question is, where?
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- Environment
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- impact investing, lending
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Korean Social Enterprises Go Global
Social enterprises — businesses that prioritize human and environmental benefits equally to profits — are effective vehicles to achieve development goals as their market-based approaches bring sustainability and scalability that are essential to create long-term impact.
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- Environment
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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How The UN Plans To Use Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Development
Several months ago, I wrote a post that was critical of ongoing efforts by the United Nations to renew theirMillennium Development Goals (MDG’s) – to be called the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) moving forward. My concern with the plan stemmed from the fact that we have seen incredible progress in areas of international development as a result of innovation, social entrepreneurship and good policy. And yet, “Draft Zero” of the Sustainable Development Goals, did not showcase the learnings of the last 15 years, and instead, seemed like a laundry list of interest-group agenda items lumped together.
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- Environment
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- Europe & Eurasia
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Ekocenters to Empower Rwanda’s Women Entrepreneurs
Ericsson and The Coca-Cola Company have announced a pilot project to bring mobile connectivity to EKOCENTER, a social enterprise initiative designed to empower community well-being by bringing safe water, solar power and mobile communications, as well as basic goods and services to underserved communities. The pilot project will be conducted in collaboration with Tigo Rwanda and German start-up company, Solarkiosk.
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- Environment
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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B Corps movement eyeing expansion in Asia
Having made some headway in the US – B Lab’s home ground – and Europe, the time may be right to bring the B Corp concept to Asia, B Lab founder Bart Houlahan says.
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- Environment
- Region
- South Asia