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How We Can Support Bottom-Of-The-Pyramid Entrepreneurs, Like Trash Sifters
Across the developing world, enterprising people are sifting through garbage bins to build small businesses through recycling. It is in the informal economy, yet they have developed an economic system. This “waste economy” is providing new opportunities for people like Vusi Memela.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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FICO and EFL Partner to Extend Access to Credit for “Unscoreable” Consumers and Entrepreneurs in Multiple Markets
As part of its FICO Financial Inclusion Initiative, analytic software firm FICO today announced a strategic partnership with EFL Global to expand credit scoring options for lenders and consumers in markets outside the US. FICO will offer EFL's psychometric scoring alongside its own credit scoring products in global markets, with the initial focus on Turkey, Russia and Mexico.
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- Impact Assessment
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Ghana: Social Enterprise Impacts Thousands in Ghana
A new research by the Social Enterprise Activity in Ghana has revealed that 98 social enterprises in Ghana currently employ 998 young people directly, impacting 103,148 lives in Ghana.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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“Big Bet” Philanthropy Can Pay Off Remarkably, But Remember It’s A Bet
The world’s wealthiest philanthropic donors are suffering their own so-far incurable problem: They’re allergic to making big bets, gifts of over $10 million to social change issues.
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- Impact Assessment
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- philanthropy
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ImpactSpace and CSRHub Bring Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Ratings to Impact Investments
ImpactSpace, the open database for the impact investing marketplace, is bringing CSRHub’s environmental, social and governance ratings into the world of impact investing.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- impact investing
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Glass Raised to World’s First Social Enterprise Gin
The founders of Edinburgh-based Pickering's Gin have launched what they claim is the world's first social enterprise gin.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Europe & Eurasia
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ImpactAssets Introduces “100 Percent for Impact” Alternative to Traditional Money Market Fund
ImpactAssets announced today the launch of the ImpactAssets Liquid Impact Portfolio, a new 100% impact money market alternative that enables investors to “park cash” while benefitting low-income communities.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- impact investing
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How to Raise Trillions for Green Investments
Saving our planet from the worst effects of climate change won’t be cheap. A new report from the United Nations says that the world will need to mobilize $90 trillion in public and private capital over the next 15 years.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- impact investing
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