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Impact Investing Turns Out to Be a Sustainable Business
Fence-sitters, naysayers, and doubting Thomases amongst investors who always sought proof that impact investing - investments made with the intent of generating environmental and social benefit alongside a financial return - is worthwhile and profi table can now write out their cheques without losing sleep.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Viewpoint: Drinkable Book: The Pages Contain Instructions and Can Be Used as High-Tech Water Filters
Here's a very clever idea: A book that not only contains information about clean drinking water printed on its pages, but the actual pages themselves can be torn off and used as high-tech filters that will remove 99% of bacteria from the filtered water. The idea came out of Dr. Theresa Dankovich's chemistry PhD work at McGill University in Montreal, during which she invented a new bactericidal silver nanoparticle paper and a green method of producing it using cheap and benign processes. She and her team are now trying to make the Drinkable Book a reality to contribute to the effort to bring clean water to the 663 million people who don't have access to it, according to the World Health Organization/ UNICEF Joint Monitoring Project.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Health Care, Impact Assessment
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5 Smart, Sustainable Innovations Ready to Take Over the Developing World
The social enterprises will receive mentoring from venture capitalists and entrepreneurs on how to scale their ideas.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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NexThought Monday – How We Can Improve Ultra-Poor ‘Graduation’: The next generation of innovations required to end the most extreme poverty
There is no great innovation without skepticism, much less in the tireless crusade against global poverty. So it's no surprise that as the ultra-poor ‘graduation’ approach pioneered by BRAC has gained ground as a viable path out of extreme poverty, questions have emerged about its effectiveness and possible next steps.
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- Impact Assessment
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Who Said Big Foundations Can’t Change? Four Takeaways from MacArthur’s Makeover
Last week, the foundation announced a major streamlining of its priorities; this week it gave a glimpse of how it would operate by unveiling a “big bet” on curbing climate change. Here are four takeaways from this makeover worth spotlighting, along with one question to ponder.
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- Impact Assessment
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- philanthropy
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Three Pillars for Measuring Impact in Inclusive Financial Services: Apis Partners and Accion Frontier Investments Group publish a framework for impact investors
In seeking to ensure a social as well as financial return on their investments in inclusive financial services, Apis Partners and Accion Frontier Investments Group created a framework to capture these services' unique aspects of impact. This gave rise to three core categories which they believe any fund manager investing in inclusive financial services can use to measure impact.
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- Impact Assessment
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6 Questions To Ask Before You Invest In A Social Enterprise
If you’re thinking about joining this growing movement, here's what you need to consider before you get started.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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PRESS RELEASE: 73% of Investment Professionals Use ESG Information When Making Investment Decisions
Almost three-quarters of investment professionals worldwide (73 percent) take environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) issues into consideration in the investment process, according to the CFA Institute ESG Survey.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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