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DemystData Announces Series A Investment to Help Financial Institutions Grow Through Deeper Customer Data
Strategic investment from Accion and Arbor Partners Asia strengthens DemystData's position in the $12 billion big data marketplace.
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- Impact Assessment, Technology
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Africa innovations: 15 ideas helping to transform a continent
A mobile phone database for dairy farmers and a strain of sweet potato that can help fight child blindness. These are just two of the imaginative new ideas that are tackling Africa's old problems
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- Agriculture, Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Tackling food waste through a social enterprise model
The founder of social enterprise Rubies in the Rubble, proves that you can run a company with a business head and a charitable heart
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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- nutrition, social enterprise, waste
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Impact Engine Announces Inaugural Class of 2012
CHICAGO, August 8, 2012 — Impact Engine, a new accelerator that supports for-profit businesses trying to make the world a better place, welcomes eight early stage companies into the program’s first-ever class. From empowering women in rural India to improving education in the United States to providing renewable energy to the people of Africa, the 2012 class includes a diverse group of entrepreneurs tackling both domestic and global challenges.
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- Impact Assessment
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Goldman Sachs In Jail: Why Is Big Money Moving Into Social Impact Bonds?
The so-called "social-impact bond" investment at Rikers Island prison, the first of its kind for an American city, means any potential return for Goldman hinges on the success of a program that will educate, train and counsel inmates aged between 16 and 18.
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- Impact Assessment
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Your Chance to Shape a Sector
Impact investing isn’t for the faint of heart, and forging the way forward on the next chapter of understanding and accelerating impact in our space is for the bravest of the brave. Yet we know that better answers are out there; we know that there is increased appetite to dig deeper and to find real lessons about what is and isn’t working and why.I’m hiring someone who wants to lead this charge.
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- Impact Assessment
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Guest Post: Understanding Company Impacts on Development With a Few Useful Examples
How useful are impact assessment approaches? And how should a company decide what approach to use? The answer of course depends on why the company wants to assess impact. To help in understanding the options, the Business Innovation Facility has produced a two-page summary of approaches to assessing impact, with the strengths and weaknesses of each.
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- Impact Assessment
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Welcoming Our New Content Partner: Mercy Corps
Mercy Corps’ status as both a relief organization responding on the ground to urgent post-disaster and post-conflict situations, and an organization developing long-term, market-driven strategies to develop economies, gives it an interesting perspective on the past, present and future of global development. That’s why I’m very happy to welcome the organization as a NextBillion Content Partner.
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- Impact Assessment