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How Entrepreneurs Can Fight Drug Traffickers
There’s nothing like attending the heady, exhilarating Clinton Global Initiative to get me out of the operational trenches of entrepreneurship for social change. But this year, I was distracted by a conversation taking place just down the street at the UN General Assembly—on drug trafficking.
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- Agriculture, Impact Assessment
- Region
- Latin America
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Oxfam launches fund to make ‘impact investments’ in the developing world
The overseas aid charity is linking up with the City of London Corporation and Symbiotics to help small and medium-sized enterprises, with the first investment in Mongolia
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- Impact Assessment
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Entrepreneur brings color to the desert
A man-made oasis in China's seventh biggest desert, Kubuqi, on the southern bank of the Yellow River, has been the backdrop for several international environmental events this year.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Making the Case for Impact Sourcing
Last week, B Corporation, a network of socially responsible "for-benefit" businesses, announced its plans to scale internationally at the Clinton Global Initiative. Many of these businesses are supported by impact investors, a group of double- and triple-bottom-line funders that received little attention until the Rockefeller Foundation launched a major impact investing initiative in 2008.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Social Enterprise – ImpactAssets50 provides view of growing impact investing landscape
SAN FRANCISCO (TrustLaw) - A database of fund managers who invest for maximum social, environmental and financial impact shows that assets under management grew 15 percent compared to last year to $10.2 billion.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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- impact investing, research
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Why is it So Difficult to Align Strategy for Social Impact?: Columbia Business School’s 2012 Social Enterprise Conference is Tackling the Question
Columbia Business School’s 2012 Social Enterprise Conference is asking how we can re-frame a rather narrow definition of strategy, and build collaboration within and across sectors to tackle major social and environmental issues.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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After the MFI Collapse, Uniting Financial Inclusion Data in India
To build off previous efforts to unite financial inclusion datasets, MIX, with funding from Citi Foundation, is building an interactive mapping platform to house and present a range of financial inclusion data on India, down to the district level.
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- Impact Assessment
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- microfinance
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FEATURED EVENT Join the Webinar: Engaging Your Network for Systematic Impact
"What can our organization do to sustain a practice of innovation?" That question is at the heart of an upcoming webinar hosted by The Rockefeller Foundation, Context Partners and us here at NextBillion at 1 p.m. EDT, (Tuesday) Oct. 2. Join us for this free, interactive event!
- Categories
- Education, Impact Assessment
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