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PRESS RELEASE: Morgan Stanley Extends Commitment to Sustainable Investing with Its Inaugural Green Bond
Morgan Stanley announced today that it has closed on the issuance of a $500 million green bond, the Firm’s inaugural green bond and the latest step in the Firm’s ongoing strategy to advance market-based solutions to social and environmental challenges.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Nigeria: Twitter Users Share Four Billion Ebola Messages in a Week
In one week at the height of the outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, in West Africa in 2014, Twitter users shared over four billion Ebola-related messages.
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- Education, Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- infrastructure
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With Diverse Tools, OPIC Guides Impact Investing for U.S. Government
Root Capital CEO Willy Foote interviews OPIC’s President and CEO, Elizabeth Littlefield, on impact investing and OPIC’s evolving role in development.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Impact Investment Fund launches: a new $100 million socially-conscious Aussie start-up fund
The constrained Australian venture capital industry is about to receive a $100 million infusion earmarked for companies that promise to do good for society or the environment.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Asia Pacific
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- impact investing
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PRESS RELEASE: Five Indicators Show Growth in Social Purpose at World’s Largest Companies
Growth in five key indicators between 2012 and 2014 illustrate the expanding application of corporate skills and resources to solving societal challenges.
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- Impact Assessment
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70% of institutional investors turning down projects on environmental, social and governance grounds
Seven out of ten institutional investors interviewed by PwC say they would decline to take part in a private equity fund raising or would turn down a co-investment on environmental, social and governance risk grounds.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Young Founders of STAWI Win $15,000 Thomas J. Bata Legacy Award for Responsible Entrepreneurship in East Africa
At a reception in Nairobi today the Bata Shoe Foundation announced that STAWI, a Kenyan business that processes perishable fruits, grains, and cereals into gluten free flour, is the winner of the $15,000Thomas J. Bata Legacy Award for young responsible entrepreneurship in East Africa. Two runners up - GreenChar and KARIBU Solar Power - received $5,000 each. The Award was established in 2014 in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the late CEO of the Bata Shoe Organization, known as "Shoemaker to the World." It provides funding and mentoring for young entrepreneurs inEast Africa who demonstrate a commitment to the values that guided Mr. Bata's leadership of the organization for four decades.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Latin America development bank CAF eyes presence in Cuba
The Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) aims to be the first multilateral lender present in Cuba, its executive president said on Thursday, as the communist-run island seeks foreign investment amid a diplomatic opening to the United States.
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- Impact Assessment
- Region
- Latin America
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- lending
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