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OPINION: Sustainable investment performance criticisms ‘out-of-date’
Arguments that sustainable investment approaches are too simplistic and don’t offer competitive returns have been labelled as “out-of-date” by Kevin Parker, chief executive of Sustainable Insight Capital Management.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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Community Foundations: What It Takes to Become Dynamic Hubs of Local Capital
What is preventing these anchor institutions from realizing their potential? What exactly is that potential, and how can community foundations shift to an impact investment strategy that really makes a difference to community success and resilience?
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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d.light Announces $11 Million Series C Financing, Expands Board of Directors
The Series C round included participation from all major investors, including DFJ, Omidyar Network, Nexus India Capital, Gray Ghost Ventures, Acumen Fund and Garage Technology Ventures. With the closing of Series C, d.light has raised a total of $40 million in capital.
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- Energy, Impact Assessment, Investing
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- venture capital
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One-Stop Site Paints A Clearer Picture For Impact Investors
Sure, the impact investing and social enterprise world is thriving. But it’s also disjointed and often confusing, with a variety of groups, startups, investors, schools, conferences, and even basic terminology.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Operation HOPE and the New York Stock Exchange Partner to Empower Youth Entrepreneurs
HOPE Business In A Box Crowdsourcing Website To Spur Funding for Youth Businesses, Advertising leader BBDO, NYC will help drive "Taking Every Kid Public," a media campaign to encourage public and private investment in youth business ideas; Gallup onboard.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Will Equity Crowdfunding Help Create The Next Silicon Valley Outside the U.S.?
This week is Global Innovation Week 2014, and as CEO of Crowdfunder.com I’ll be participating in the Global Innovation Summit (GIS) in Silicon Valley. The focus of the GIS conference is on ecosystem development. Which is a great topic and comes as no surprise, as the conference is led by Victor Hwang and Greg Horowitt, venture partners at T2 Ventures and authors of The Rainforest: The Secret to Building The Next Silicon Valley.
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- Impact Assessment
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- crowdfunding
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The social impact bond wars
Social impact investing sounds like an innovative way of uniting private investors, nonprofits and government to deliver social services with demonstrable outcomes. But who’s profiting from that financing model?
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- Impact Assessment
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African Angel Investors: Creating an ecosystem
Angel investor circles are notably absent in most African capitals. And there are not many formal structures where one can gain this kind of support - especially for social and BoP-focused business ideas. Tara Sabre Collier discusses the challenges and opportunities in developing Africa’s angel investing ecosystem.
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- Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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- impact investing
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