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Healthcare Cannot Exist Without Clean Water: Why WASH is the Foundation of an Effective Pandemic Response
Hospital beds and masks are often seen as the basic elements of defense against COVID-19. Yet for many developing countries, the pandemic has exposed even more fundamental disease prevention needs – namely, clean water and sanitation. Nafisa Jiwani at U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) discusses the vital role WASH plays in combating the pandemic, and how DFC is supporting water and sanitation efforts around the world.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Investing, WASH
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Crowdfunding For Clean Energy — Raise Green Launches New Marketplace
Founded by Peter Krajsa and Matthew Brown, NEIF currently manages more than $800 million worth of “innovative energy financing programs.”
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Impact Investors Retreat as Global Shutdown, Social Unrest Raise Fears and Uncertainty
Social-impact investing may not begin to recover until after investors get a sense of how the pandemic will play out this quarter, Silver Leaf’s Scanlon says.
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- Investing
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Impact Investing App GoParity Launches First Green Energy Project in Africa
GoParity, an impact investment platform based in Portugal and with more than 2.1 million euros of investment raised for environmentally and socially responsible projects is now launching its first project in Africa.
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- Energy, Environment, Investing
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How You Can Invest in Racial Justice
A history of discrimination and inequality has led to dramatic gaps in wealth, investment, and income between white communities and minority communities. Yale SOM’s Teresa Chahine and a panel of experts discussed how businesses, financial firms, and regular investors can make choices that empower local businesses and increase opportunity.
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- Investing
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Press Release: Kiva Receives USAID Design Funding to Structure Innovative $100M Fund to Support 1 Million Women Globally
Financial inclusion non-profit Kiva is announcing a partnership under the White House-led Women’s Global Development and Prosperity (W-GDP) Initiative with USAID to advance women’s economic empowerment by increasing access to financing for women entrepreneurs and business owners
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- Investing
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Who Should Get COVID-19 Funding? How MIT D-Lab’s ‘Urgency Index’ is Helping it Deploy Grants to the Entrepreneurs Who Need Them Most
Entrepreneurs in emerging markets face unprecedented challenges during COVID-19, and there are many organizations working to support them. But as Jona Repishti at MIT D-Lab and Sagar Tandon at Moonshot Ventures explain, it can be hard to determine which of these enterprises are most in need. They explore the process that D-Lab's Bridge fund uses to target its grants for maximum impact.
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- Coronavirus, Entrepreneurship, Investing
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Press Release: MovingWorlds Announces New Social Enterprise Program, S-Grid, to Accelerate Post-COVID Recovery
Sustainable Growth of Revenues for International Development; in partnership with SAP; building skills and capacity of social enterprises and small business; connecting them to corporations for more sustainable and equitable practices; creating a regenerative economy
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- Coronavirus, Investing