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“Gift-a-Pension” Initiative Helps Maids, Drivers, Cooks Save for Their Retirement in India
This September, A Mary, 47, got something she never thought she ever could — not a car or a home but a pension. A house help and a mother of two whose husband is a driver, Delhi-based Mary always viewed a pension as something only the affluent could afford — until her employer Kurt Strasser, a senior sector specialist at German development bank KfW, brought it within her reach.
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- Impact Assessment
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- South Asia
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Investing for Good, Not Just Return, Grows to $6.57 Trillion Since 2012
Sustainable and responsible investing assets have grown 76 percent in the last two years, from $3.74 trillion in 2012 to $6.57 trillion at the start of this year.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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PRESS RELEASE: Omidyar Network, Pershing Square Foundation Grant Social Finance, Inc. $4 Million for Pay-for-Success Financing
Social Finance announced today, at a White House Pay for Success Summit in Chicago, grant awards totaling $4.0 million from Omidyar Network and The Pershing Square Foundation to support its operations over the next three years. The flexible funds will be used to expand Social Finance's transaction and advisory teams, as well as accelerate the flow of Pay-for-Success (PFS) financing (or Social Impact Bond) transactions in the United States. The grants represent funding renewals from Omidyar Network and The Pershing Square Foundation, which were founding supporters of Social Finance.
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- Impact Assessment
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How One Investor Is Finding Profit in Social Change
Ron Cordes used to get patronizing pats on the head from the traditional financial advisors he once worked with. Now, many of his former colleagues are asking him to help them get smarter about impact investing.
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- Impact Assessment
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WEF Offers Impact Investing Road Map for Wealthy Families
The World Economic Forum has a message for wealthy families thinking about impact investing: don’t just buy on the buzz, do your homework.
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- Impact Assessment
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Viewpoint: Why Impact Assessments Are Good for Non-Profits but Bad for Business
By Erik Simanis:Impact assessments are a powerful – and necessary – part of a non-profit’s tool kit. Rigorously measuring how and how much a program solves a social ill and betters the lives of the poor ensures continual improvement. Impact assessments also serve as a report card back to the funders of non-profits. They assure donors that grant funds are being maximised and used for the purpose intended.
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- Impact Assessment
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UNITAID And PSI Partner to Expand Access to HIV Self-Testing
Globally, there are an estimated 19 million people who do not know they are living with HIV. Without knowledge of their status, individuals cannot access life-saving HIV care and treatment. To close this gap, UNITAID is investing $23 million to accelerate access to HIV testing through simple HIV self-tests in three high-burden African countries over the next two years. PSI and its partners will lead this initiative to dramatically shift the paradigm of HIV testing in Africa.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing
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Impact Investing Goes Mainstream
The idea of doing good while making a healthy profit is rapidly gaining ground, particularly among wealthy Silicon Valley entrepreneurs but also among foundations and pension funds. Social impact investing — for-profit investing for social good — has crossed into the mainstream and is driving investment decisions.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing