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Press Release: Hennion & Walsh Launches Sustainable Impact Investing Trust
Hennion & Walsh, one of the nation's premier providers of investment services and an advocate for individual investors, today announced the launch of its SmartTrust Sustainable Impact Investing Trust, further expanding its suite of proprietary SmartTrust Unit Investment Trust (UIT) portfolios. Selected by Argus Investors' Counsel and based, in part, on criteria established by IW Financial, the Trust seeks to provide investors with total return potential by investing in the stocks of companies that meet the Trust's investment criteria including, but not limited to, environmental, social and governance factors.
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- Environment
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- impact investing
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The Primary Care Innovator’s Handbook: Leaders in the field share primary care knowledge, ideas
The Center for Health Market Innovations has released The Primary Care Innovator’s Handbook: Voices from Leaders in the Field, an attempt to share knowledge between innovators in an open and informal way, and to encourage more conversations among the community of innovators working to improve primary care.
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- Education, Environment, Health Care
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- public health
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Inside Citi’s Plan to Deploy $100 Billion for Cities, Renewables, Climate
Today, Citi, the global banking giant, is announcing its next-gen sustainability strategy that includes an eye-popping number: $100 billion over 10 years for “lending, investing and facilitating” activities focused on mitigating climate and other sustainability solutions.
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- Energy, Environment
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Sustainable Cattle in Kenya Pay Off
For thousands of years the pastoralist communities of northern Kenya have herded their cattle alongside elephants and zebras, the grass of the rangelands shared between livestock and wildlife in relative balance. In recent decades, climate change, habitat loss, and human population growth have combined to erode that balance, leading to overgrazing and the degradation of the grasslands that both humans and wildlife need to survive.
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- Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing
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Bamboo Bike Business Changing Youth Employment in Ghana
It’s bespoke, beautifully formed, and changing the face of transport in Ghana. The bamboo bicycle is gaining traction in the country and one organization is riding this popularity wave to increase youth employment in the process.
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- Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- transportation
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Viewpoint: Profit Is Not a Dirty Word
Sustainability is an all too overused word that is rarely linked to the word profit. Yet sustainability and profit go hand in hand. When it comes to building a network of health facilities in a developing country using a social franchising model similar to how business franchises operate; the link between profit and sustainability is imperative. Without one we cannot hope to have the other.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- Latin America
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Premature Innovation: What happens when a social entrepreneur has a great business idea in a market that isn’t ready for it?
Mauricio Monjaras Cabañas founded GRIMA Biodiesel at the age of 21, a social enterprise that aimed to produce renewable fuel from castor beans. The fuel was touted as cheaper than diesel, better for the environment, and a boon to local farmers. But when he tried to launch his business, complications quickly set in. He discusses his struggles in this post, the latest in our series on social enterprise failures.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Environment
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- renewable energy
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This Antiseptic Was Brought to You By …: USAID guide mimics some market practices to speed ‘bench to bedside’
When it comes to global health, “people are good at inventing things but not always good at reaching scale,” according to David Milestone, senior adviser at the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Center for Accelerating Innovation and Impact. That’s why USAID developed “IDEA to IMPACT: A Guide to Introduction and Scale of Global Health Innovations,” which officially debuted on Monday.
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- Environment, Health Care
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