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CapShift – An Impact Investment Platform Has Secured $5 Million in Funding
CapShift announces series a raise of $5 million to scale its charitable impact investing platform.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
- Region
- Global
- Tags
- ESG, impact investing, philanthropy
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Innovation in Action: Lessons From Healthcare Innovators That Rapidly Pivoted To Respond to COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced health-focused social enterprises to adjust their methods and priorities, shifting their modes of patient engagement and even developing entirely new programs. Innovations in Healthcare, a nonprofit housed at Duke University, studied a group of health innovators working in low- and middle-income countries to understand these shifts. Victoria Hsiung, Sowmya Rajan and Katie Flowers share insights from a recent white paper analyzing how these organizations have adapted, assessing four groups' choices and exploring the lessons learned.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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‘We Need Dignified Jobs’: How a Human Trafficking Survivor Sparked a Social Enterprise to Empower Victims of Exploitation
Human trafficking survivors need more than rescue and handouts – they need jobs. But as Elsa Cruz of Savhera explains, trafficking victims face multiple barriers that prevent them not only from escaping their captivity, but from finding sustainable employment if they do regain their freedom. She shares how Savhera provides dignified employment to trafficking survivors in both the U.S. and India, through a unique approach focused on physical, intellectual, economic and spiritual healing and development.
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- Social Enterprise
- Tags
- employment
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Nigerian Mobility Startup Moove Raises $63.2 Million Series A to Democratise Vehicle Ownership
Moove is democratising vehicle ownership in Africa by providing revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs.
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- Social Enterprise, Technology, Transportation
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- startups, transportation
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Analysis: India Needs More Social Enterprises, but These Five Challenges Are Holding Us Back
Though they are growing gradually, social enterprises are at the crossroads due to the several challenges that they are grappling with.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
- Region
- Asia Pacific
- Tags
- impact investing
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Babban Gona, Nigeria’s Social Enterprise Firm Gets $5 Million IFAD Loan
The loan will help Babban Gona support 377,000 small-scale rice and maize producers in Nigeria with a comprehensive package of training, quality inputs, and marketing services.
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- Agriculture, Social Enterprise
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Doing Good By Selling Well: How Social Enterprises Can Transform Their Sales Strategies by Boosting Customers’ ‘Decision Intelligence’
A social enterprise may have a brilliant product, local production and an affordable price point – but unless it has an effective and ethical sales strategy, it will struggle to fulfill its mission, says Roy Whitten of Whitten & Roy Partnership. He explains how traditional, pressure-filled sales methods can create distrust among customers and encourage bad behavior among salespeople, and explores the advantages of a more ethical approach based on boosting customers' "decision intelligence."
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- Social Enterprise
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Google Launches New Programs to Bolster African Innovation, Female Entrepreneurship
Google has announced the launch and opening of applications of a new US$3 million Black Founders Fund (BFF) Africa programme, and a Google.org-backed US$3 million grant to the Tony Elumelu Foundation to support female entrepreneurs on the continent.
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- Social Enterprise
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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