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Nigerian Startups Can’t Raise Money Through Crowdfunding Because of Antiquated Laws
Crowdfunding has been a big help to good causes in Nigeria. Last year, donations kept a rape counseling center in Lagos from shutting down. And Nigerian athletes took to GoFundMe to help pay for their training and travel to the Rio Olympics, after poor preparations by the sports ministry.
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- crowdfunding
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You Don’t Have to Sacrifice Returns for Sustainability
What should performance expectations be for someone interested in sustainable/responsible funds? Do investors wanting to align their investments with their personal values, or those seeking to have an environmental or societal impact with their investments, have to settle for inferior returns?
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- Environment, Investing
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Nonprofits Are Seeking Profits
The International Non-Governmental Impact Investing Network has released a report showing how not-for-profit organizations are actually chasing profits by embracing the concept and process of impact investing.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- impact investing
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Press Release: Investors Generate Business Value by Analyzing Social and Environmental Performance Data
The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) today published a new report, The Business Value of Impact Measurement, which outlines how impact measurement and management can generate business value for impact investors and their investee companies.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- North America
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- impact investing
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A Demographic Time Bomb: The Urgent Need to Prepare Undocumented Hispanic Immigrants for Retirement
The United States is home to some 11.3 million undocumented immigrants, mostly Latin American. These immigrants are aging, and whether they stay in the U.S. or return to their home countries, many are woefully underprepared for the financial burdens of retirement. The consequences of ignoring their retirement savings needs are significant – but so are the opportunities to reach them with financial products.
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- Investing
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Opinion: Africans Investing in Africa: New Engine of Africa’s Growth
Rising disposable incomes, a young and talented population, growing urbanization, and an increasingly robust business climate have all combined to produce an emerging middle-class that is poised to drive consumption, innovation, industrialization and trade. Global investor confidence in Africa is higher than it has ever been.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Impact Investing Comes of Age: ImpactAlpha Rounds up Nine Stories Shaping the Marketplace
Impact investments represent some of the greatest wealth generating opportunities of our time, from the trillions needed to build a clean global energy grid, to the opportunities in delivering essential services to the emerging middle class. Here are nine recent developments that highlight the sector's growing significance, part of ImpactAlpha's ongoing collaboration with NextBillion.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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Weekly Roundup: The Death of a Salesman, a Megaphone for Mom, and a Target on BlackRock
Divestment activists in the gay community turn their sights on BlackRock, a tragic suicide reveals trouble in India's health care industry, and a new study shows the value of constructive nagging in this week's Roundup.
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- Health Care, Investing, Social Enterprise