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Win $9,000 in Tickets to Social Impact Events: Enter SOCAP’s 2018 Impact Passport Giveaway
Whether you are an early-stage social entrepreneur or just exploring the world of social entrepreneurship, conscious business or impact investing, here's an amazing deal for you: SOCAP's 2018 Impact Passport giveaway offers the opportunity to go to several of the premier events in the social impact calendar this year - for free. The winner of the sweepstakes will receive a suite of conference tickets, media consultations and subscriptions with a total value of approximately $9,000.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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Unitus Ventures Raises INR 100 Crore Towards First Close of Fund II
Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Bill Gates, Hemendra Kothari and others invest again in India’s leading early-stage impact fund. Unitus Ventures to invest INR 5-15 crore each in ~30 startups in healthcare, education and inclusive fintech.
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- Investing
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- South Asia
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Omidyar Network Makes Six New Investments that Address the Needs of the “Next Half Billion”
“Omidyar Network is looking to support early-stage businesses with the potential of creating access to jobs, education, healthcare, transportation, financial services, and government services for the NHB,” said Roopa Kudva, Omidyar Network partner and managing director, India.
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- Investing
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U.S. Department of Labor Says ESG Investments Aren’t Always ‘Prudent’
The Department of Labor, which oversees retirement-plan funds, published guidelines on Monday that said investments based on environmental, social and governance issues aren’t always a “prudent choice” and that such factors shouldn’t “too readily” be considered as economically relevant by fiduciaries.
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- Investing
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- North America
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- ESG, impact investing
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John Kerry Joins TPG’s $2 Billion Rise Fund as Senior Adviser
“The private sector is the best bet we have to try to save us from the worst downsides of some of these social, environmental, political challenges we face on a global basis,” Kerry said. “That is a bottom line reality that people need to really think about.”
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- North America
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Avenue Capital to Launch ‘Impact’ Investment Fund, Source Says
Avenue Capital Group LLC, a New York-based investment firm with $9.4 billion in assets under management, plans to launch a fund this year that will focus on so-called impact credit investments, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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Student activist David Hogg calls for boycott of Vanguard and BlackRock over gunmaker ownership
One of Parkland, Fla.'s most prominent student activists on stopping gun violence has called for a boycott of Vanguard and BlackRock, two of the world's biggest investors in gunmakers.
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- Investing
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- North America
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- ESG, impact investing
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World Bank issues first-ever poverty bond, gets $1.5 billion
The World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) launched the world’s first poverty bond this week, a debt offering representatives say is designed to lift up the poor, and global investors literally couldn’t get enough.
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- Investing
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