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Filling the Funding Gap: Two Innovative Ways to Improve Financing Opportunities for Social Impact Entrepreneurs
Social entrepreneurs often struggle to scale their enterprises because of difficulties accessing tailor-made capital. According to Carola Schwank at Siemens Stiftung's empowering people.Network, this is often due to a clear mismatch in pairing up social entrepreneurs and impact investors. She explores two key solutions to this crucial challenge, featured in Siemens Stiftung's “Innovative Financing for Social Entrepreneurs” report.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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- impact investing
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‘Green Is Good.’ Is Wall Street’s New Motto Sustainable?
As big institutions go green, it can make for strange bedfellows, like some of Goldstein’s clients who were carried into the Goldman Sachs fold. Among them, a group of Midwestern nuns known as the Franciscan Sisters of Mary, a Roman Catholic group out of St. Louis.
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- Investing
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BlackRock CEO Says the Climate Crisis Is About to Trigger ‘a Fundamental Reshaping of Finance’
In an annual letter to CEOs published Tuesday, BlackRock chief executive Larry Fink said: “Climate change has become a defining factor in companies’ long-term prospects."
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- Environment, Investing
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World’s Largest Asset Manager BlackRock Joins $41 Trillion Climate-Change Investing Pact
“Given BlackRock’s size and influence, their commitment to accelerating engagements with the largest corporate greenhouse gas emitters on climate change sends a powerful signal to companies to reduce emissions, improve corporate governance and strengthen their disclosure,” said Mindy Lubber, a member of the Climate Action 100+ steering committee.
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- Environment, Investing
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- climate change
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Why Asia Could Soon Dominate Responsible Investing
While Asia might currently be lagging behind in terms of market share in the ESG investment space, I believe there are several key reasons this can be expected to change over the next decade.
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- Investing
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- ESG, impact investing
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How Impact Investing Could Help Countries Recover From Natural Disasters
Natural disasters destroy numerous properties each year. To protect communities from the consequences, many impact investors put their money into the restoration of local buildings. Impact investors play a significant role in facilitating recovery efforts. By putting money into the area, they provide residents with resources for repairing their communities.
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- Environment, Investing
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Big Investment in African Tech Set to Continue in 2020
2019 was the year that dealmaking on the continent got serious. Very serious. In November alone, indeed one specific seven-day period in the month, investors announced over $400m for various fintechs on the continent. This was the wildest week the sector had ever witnessed. And no, it wasn’t a flurry of announcements for modest rounds, but in fact a succession of big-ticket deals for fintech companies, both old and new.
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- Investing, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- fintech
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And the Winners of NextBillion’s Most Influential Article of 2019 Contest Are …
Tough questions and tougher answers: NextBillion's most influential articles of 2019 – as rated by our readers – confronted some confounding new realities in emerging markets business, and the potential futures they portend. And here are the winners! Thank you to the hundreds of readers who cast their ballots during the holiday period – and especially to the guest writers who shared these insightful pieces.
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- Agriculture, Education, Energy, Environment, Finance, Health Care, Impact Assessment, Investing, Technology
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