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Going the Extra Mile for Health
In the distant corners of Africa, entrepreneurs deliver goods and services across bumpy roads, crossing brimming rivers and rickety bridges, climbing steep hills and descending treacherous valleys. It is a classic story of conquering odds to reach the unreached.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Kenya’s BRCK raises $1.2M to connect the last mile to the internet
Ushahidi spinout BRCK Inc. announced today that it has closed a $1.2 million seed round. BRCK is solving last-mile connectivity problems with a device that can bring seamless internet connection to the most remote areas of the world.
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- Press Release
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- Impact Assessment, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Electrify Africa, Energize Africa and Power Africa: Partnering With Africa for the Long Run
Monday, 30 June, was the first year anniversary of President Obama’s Power Africa initiative, the president’s signature initiative for the continent which seeks to expand electricity to address poverty alleviation and economic growth.
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- Energy, Environment, Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Making Impact Easier: How impact investing can put capital providers and seekers on the road to more investible deals
A growing number of financial institutions are embracing impact investing, but much work remains to be done to build a robust market. Impact Economy’s new report explores how major financial advisors and institutions could align their investments, build viable pipelines of investible deals, and make impact both commercially viable and socially transformative.
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- Impact Assessment
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New private equity fund targets microfinance institutions for women
It’s been a while in the making, but this week Women’s World Banking finally closed its first private equity fund to invest in microfinance enterprises that support women.
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- Impact Assessment
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Facilitating New Markets: Philanthropies are uniquely suited to fostering market-based solutions to poverty
Monitor Deloitte’s recently released Beyond the Pioneer report includes a call for organizations to step up as “industry facilitators” to help overcome key challenges to scaling market-based solutions to social problems. Based on its experience in India, the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation describes several ways philanthropies can play that role.
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- Impact Assessment
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Corporate ‘Prizes’ Driving Innovation
As the global trend for corporate prize winning competitions to drive innovation increases, a new US report offers guidance for the public sector, Not for Profits and philanthropic foundations on cultivating the winning opportunities.
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- Impact Assessment
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- philanthropy
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TriLinc Global Impact Fund Makes Impact Investment in Argentina
TriLinc Global Impact Fund approves a new $5.0 million revolving trade finance facility to an Argentine beef company, bringing total financing commitments as of June 30, 2014 to $28.7 million for business expansion and socioeconomic development in Latin America
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- Impact Assessment
- Region
- Latin America
- Tags
- impact investing
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