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Building an Affordable Learning Market: The Pearson Affordable Learning Fund one year on, lessons learned in education impact investing
The Pearson Affordable Learning Fund (PALF) was established in May 2012, with a mandate to invest in the creation and servicing of low-cost-private school chains around the globe. Here are a few of the things we’ve learned about education impact investing in the year since we launched.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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14 Scalable Social Enterprises
Depending on who you ask and what their specific definition of social enterprise is, they may say that "scalable social enterprises" are redundant because all social enterprises should be able to scale.
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- Impact Assessment
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Calvert Foundation developing impact investing initiative for diaspora communities
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation is supporting the first phase of the initiative, a feasibility study, with a $200,000 grant.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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PEPFAR: Millions treated, but better info management needed
Over the past decade, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief has saved millions of lives, but a watchdog claims it could help even more if information were managed better.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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Measure for Measure Series: Data, data everywhere? Creating bottom up approach to harnessing information
These days, it’s not just about measuring how much change has happened. Increasingly, the focus is on the value of that change in anything from, say, the value of amenity trees to the value of low-level dementia. The challenge now is not so much how to measure, but which measurement approach should I use for a particular outcome?
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- Impact Assessment
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The Social Angel Movement in India : How it’s building the impact ecosystem
Ultimately, when making an investment, angels should really be looking at the entrepreneur – does he or she lead with a moral imagination? Even if financial returns are lower, there is often more gratification in seeing diversified risk spread through communities in the form of continuing social impact, be it through building sustainable ecosystems, creating jobs for the BoP or fuelling innovative business models across numerous sectors.
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Ronnie Screwvala puts profit first in social impact ventures
Ronnie Screwvala, the managing director of Walt Disney India, logs in 70 hours a week for the entertainment company and yet devotes 10-15 hours to philanthropy and social impact businesses. "Whatever one makes from the business, 10-15% should always go back to society," he says.
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- Impact Assessment
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- South Asia
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- impact investing
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Communicate and stay on target: a recipe for ensuring social impact
As businesses turn social, how do they guarantee social impact?
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- Impact Assessment
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