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Needed: Naïve People with Stupid Ideas: An interview with Intellecap co-founder and director Vineet Rai
When Intellecap was founded in 2002, few people would have predicted that it would become a social business and investing powerhouse. According to co-founder and director Vineet Rai, the company’s early years were defined by failure. He discusses the lessons he learned from these failures (and subsequent successes), Intellecap’s unique model and future plans, and many other topics in this wide-ranging video Q&A.
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- Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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OPINION: We Need to Prove Impact Investing Makes a Difference
While measuring impact is complicated, investors, grant makers, and nonprofit organization need to have some way to assess, manage, and communicate their real impact.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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A New Model of Health Workforce Training
A new model of health workforce training has the potential to be an innovative, cost-effective, catalytic initiative that can build national health systems, empower women and make itself obsolete in a decade.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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East Africa Emerges as Global Hub for Impact Investing
Investments focused on fostering social or environmental goals are playing an increasing role in East Africa, which a new report says is a global center for so-called impact investing.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing
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Wall Street not giving up on U.S. social impact bonds
Wall Street firms like Deutsche Bank , Santander Bank and Bank of America are still interested in backing U.S. social impact bonds, despite the failure of the first such initiative.
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- Impact Assessment
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Social Impact Bonds Are Coming to the Tropics
Recent developments indicate that Latin America may become a robust new frontier market for social impact bonds, with a rich set of multiple-player ecosystems.
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- Impact Assessment
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NexThought Monday – Tapping the Potential of the World’s Largest Minority: Two keys to boosting employment for 70 million disabled people in India
After spending three months analyzing ongoing efforts to increase employment for people with disabilities at the base of the pyramid in India, the author saw two main problems: no collective goals have been established and there’s a lack of transparent impact data demonstrating the economic and social outcomes.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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PRESS RELEASE: Village Capital Announces World’s Largest Peer Selected Venture Capital Fund
VilCap Investments New Fund Continues Using Peer-Selection Model to Support Entrepreneurs Solving the World's Most Pressing Problems.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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