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Press release: Morgan Stanley Launches Sustainable Investing Education Course for Financial Advisors
Built in collaboration between Morgan Stanley Wealth Management and the Institute for Sustainable Investing, the web-based curriculum provides an immersive educational experience designed to equip Morgan Stanley Financial Advisors with the know-how to grow their business, connect with clients, and implement Investing with Impact solutions, tools and resources through a series of five themes covered in the course.
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- ESG, impact investing
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Is Higher Ed the Next Big Frontier for Impact Investing? Some Funders Think So
Impact investing, with its promise of both financial returns and measurable social benefits, is one of the hottest trends in philanthropy. But as more legacy foundations look to harness the "other 95 percent" of their capital to their mission, and as newer business-minded donors flood into the field, plenty of questions remain about where and how impact investing is likely to be most useful or effective.
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- North America
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- philanthropy
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Liberia’s broken education system: will school choice work?
Liberia is trying to solve perennial education problems by outsourcing the management of hundreds of schools to the private sector.
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- Education
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Harvard Business School Announces Social Enterprise Loan Repayment Assistance Program
The School’s Social Enterprise Initiative and MBA Program announced today an expansion of the program to include for-profit social enterprise positions. Beginning with the October 2017 application cycle, the program will support alumni working with a nonprofit, public sector organization or for-profit social enterprise.
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Study Calls on Impact Investors to Close Educational Attainment Gaps
According to a recent Global Impact Investing Network survey, impact investments in the education sector accounted for only 2 percent of global impact investing assets under management. The report further suggests that foundations can play a catalytic role in ensuring the flow of capital to educational organizations and for interventions designed to boost equitable access to higher education for underserved populations through the provision of "blended capital" (a combination of grants, "patient" or more affordable equity, and/or debt capital).
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Billionaire Michael Dell Announces $1 Billion Commitment To Support Social Entrepreneurs, Nonprofits
The funding will go toward the financial support of causes like social entrepreneurship in India, college success for low-income students in the U.S. and South Africa, and data-driven education across the regions, Dell's wife Susan, who joined him during the talk, said.
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A quarter of African children to be privately educated by 2021
Innovative private sector teaching models, such as that employed by controversial for-profit school chain Bridge International Academies, enjoy high-profile backing, including from some of the world's most esteemed donors and aid organisations like philanthropist Bill Gates, the World Bank and the UK’s Department for International Development.
But not everyone agrees. NGOs, teaching unions and a United Nations expert are among those that have decried the increasing reliance on such low-cost private schools,- Categories
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab (J-WEL) to spark global renaissance in education through innovation at MIT
The global collaborative effort will help educators, universities, governments, and companies revolutionize the effectiveness and reach of education, and aims to help prepare people everywhere for a labor market radically altered by technological progress, globalization, and the pursuit of higher living standards around the world. A guiding focus of J-WEL will be learners in the developing world, populations underserved by education such as women and girls, and a growing displaced population that includes refugees.
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- Education