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Report: Unitus Seed Fund’s Investments Impact 1.2 Million Lives Across India
Unitus Seed Fund, India’s leading impact venture fund investing in early- stage startups innovating for the masses, today released its semi-annual impact report, which is now mapped to UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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- South Asia
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‘We’re trying to go all in’: Chocolate giant Mars pledges $1 billion to fight climate change
"We've been increasingly worried about overall progress on the big issues, whether that's climate change or solving poverty," Barry Parkin, Mars' chief sustainability officer, told Business Insider.
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- Environment, Investing
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- North America
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Impact bonds in developing countries: Early learnings from the field
Achieving the SDGs will require governments and multilaterals to develop and apply innovative financing tools to make the best use of existing funds. Results-based financing represents one tool that governments and multilaterals can use to ensure that funds are directed most effectively toward populations in need.
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Sustainable Investments Are Not Always What They Seem
Developing countries in particular often have informal or incomplete land titling, and lack clear maps of existing individual and community land use, empowered community representation and local government, written contracts in local languages, and clear arbitration procedures.
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- Environment, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- ESG, global development
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How Nonprofits Can Make The Super Rich Work For Them
A recent report about the values and giving practices of high and ultra-high net worth adults–people with at least $1 million in liquid financial assets–by U.S. Trust, Bank of America’s private wealth management group, provides some answers.
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6 ways to change the world for as little as $20
Want to put your money where your heart is? Impact investing may be for you. This kind of investment aims to make the world a better place, and make you a profit.
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- impact investing
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East Ventures announces new $30M fund to continue investing in Indonesia
This new $30 million fund is the firm’s sixth to date in Southeast Asia, and remarkably its second in 2017 alone. A $27.5 million fund announced in January was fully deployed in less than a year as outside interest in Southeast Asia blew up in 2017, with Indonesia the focal point for investors like Chinese web giants Alibaba and Tencent. Today marks the first close of the new fund.
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- Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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- venture capital
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CARE Enterprises Announces Plans to Deploy $30 Million through Investment Structures and Collaboration with World Economic Forum’s Fourth Sector Development Initiative
For-benefit enterprises are hybrid business structures whose primary purpose is to deliver social and environmental benefit. They constitute a fourth sector of the economy, which has been growing at the intersection of the traditional private, public and nonprofit sectors for decades.
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- Investing