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SJF Ventures Raises $90MM Third Fund, Tripling Size of Previous Fund
SJF Ventures conducted the final closing on its third fund with more than $90MM in capital commitments, tripling the size of the previous $28MM second fund.
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Unlikely Takeover: A Third Way to Scale Social Enterprise
When we try to scale social enterprise, we usually try one of two paths: growing small organizations or spreading ideas across a range of organizations to scale impact.
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World Bank Group Awards $2 Million to Social Enterprises in the States of Madhya Pradesh
Twenty social enterprises were awarded grants totaling $2 million by the India Development Marketplace (DM) funded by the World Bank Group (WBG).
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A Wholesale Boost for Tenderos: Why SABMiller Latin America is investing $17M in small retailers
SABMiller Latin America will invest US$17 million over four years in the program that has been designed in collaboration with the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). It will be launched in the six core markets for SABMiller in the region, and will target around 10 percent of tenderos.
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Connecting the Global Community of Leading Impact Investors: Global Impact Investing Network
Forbes interviewed Amit Bouri, the managing director at the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the effectiveness of impact investing around the world.
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Video Contest Winner Colorado State University Shows Business Education Can Change the World
Business students from around the globe entered the Global Business School Network’s 3rd annual MBA+ Challenge Video Contest to show how they are making a difference in the developing world.
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‘We believe strongly in the power of entrepreneurs to transform Africa’
As of March 2013, Omidyar Network has committed more than $611 million to for-profit and non-profit companies that foster economic advancement, including entrepreneurship.
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Profit Meets Purpose: Why Social Entrepreneurship Suggests a Possible Future for Global Capitalism
As the first Internet stock bubble neared its popping point in 1999, IBM chief executive Lou Gerstner famously dismissed the dot-com start-ups of his day as "fireflies before the storm--all stirred up, throwing off sparks."
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