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What Happens When You Invest In Entrepreneurship At The Margins
There are countless ways that distressed communities in the US differ from the remote areas where my organization, Root Capital, operates. But they have at least this in common: They have an acute need for investment. And we need more gatekeepers of capital to take up that challenge.
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- Investing
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- North America
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Living Right: Buen Vivir Fund Heralds a More Democratic Kind of Impact Investing
“The Buen Vivir Fund,” notes Reines, “has created a system, referred to as Aportes, whereby borrowers make a solidarity contribution of their choosing that will remain in the fund for current and future projects. The structure of Aportes contrasts with the conventional investment operation of interest, in which money is paid at regular intervals at a particular rate and accrues earnings for the purpose of increasing return on investment to investors.”
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- Investing
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Danone’s debut social bond attracts healthy appetite
Proceeds will be used to fund projects backing notably responsible farming, local projects dedicated to empowering communities and social entrepreneurs or healthy food entrepreneurship, it said in a statement.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- ESG, impact investing
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‘Socially responsible’ investors reassess Facebook ownership
“The lid is being opened on the black box of Facebook’s data practices, and the picture is not pretty,” said Frank Pasquale, a University of Maryland law professor who has written about Silicon Valley’s use of data.
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- Investing
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- data, impact investing
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The Demonetization Crisis May Be Over, but the Time for Tech Upgrades in Indian Microfinance Is Now
India's 2016 banknote demonetization sent shockwaves through the country's microfinance sector, causing MFIs to write off US$ 1.1 billion in bad loans. In response, cash-dependent MFIs stepped up investment in fintech – but now that the crisis has passed, so perhaps has their sense of urgency. Elliot Rosenberg of Awaaz.De argues that the need to embrace tech is as strong as ever.
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- Finance, Investing, Technology
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Omidyar Network Spins Out New $100 Million Venture Fund Called Spero Ventures
Called Spero Ventures, the fund counts Omidyar as its sole limited partner and will include 13 for-profit investments made by Mahesh and her colleagues while they were part of Omidyar Network. Mahesh and her fellow partner Rob Veres, as well as employees Ha Nguyen, Sara Eshelman and Christina Li have already made two investments on their own, in Fathom and Markov.
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- Investing
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Viewpoint: Nonprofit Earned-Income Ventures Aren’t Rockets: Another Launchpad Failure
Hailed as a potential game changer, ImpactUs fell apart eight months after opening even though the impact-investing intermediary had the backing of the MacArthur Foundation, Ford Foundation, Kellogg Foundation, Open Road Alliance, Enterprise Community Partners, and City First Enterprises. Another firm is picking up the pieces, so it may not be a total loss, but why did the initial effort flame out so quickly? Here, John MacIntosh advances some tenets for nonprofits to follow to give their venture activities a greater chance of success.
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- Investing
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Impact investor Aavishkaar-Intellecap to raise up to $75m to fund growth
The capital raised from the fundraising will allow Aavishkaar-Intellecap Group to support its subsidiaries as they look to scale and to seed some new businesses, says founder Vineet Rai.
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- Investing
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- South Asia
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- impact investing