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Big World Capital: Will the June G8 Summit be the moment social investing comes of age?
You have to feel a bit sorry for the G8 group of leading industrial countries. Not so long ago their annual get-togethers, hosted in rotation by one of the member states, used to be the most important meeting on the global economic calendar.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Life, Not Death, is Focus of New Health Metrics
This maverick researcher wants to replace conventional death statistics with data on how well we live.
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- Education, Health Care, Impact Assessment
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Q&A With Arun Gore Of Gray Ghost Ventures: ‘Social Impact Needs Scale’
Esha Chhabra (@esh2440) chats with Arun Gore, the president and CEO of Gray Ghost Ventures, about the global impact investing movement.
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- South Asia
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- scale
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Maternal Health Startup Makes History As First ‘Do-It-Yourself’ Benefit Corporation In Michigan
A Michigan startup company founded by University of Michigan students has made legal history by becoming the first “do-it-yourself” benefit corporation in the state. Deborah Burand, a law professor at the University of Michigan and co-founder of the International Transactions Clinic (ITC), reports.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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Energy access for all in Africa: does enterprise hold the key?
Local companies, international groups and charities are all using business approaches to improve access to clean, safe energy
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- Energy, Impact Assessment, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- Base of the Pyramid, solar
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15 Young Go-getters You’ll Want to Meet
Over the last six months, the PBS NewsHour's Agents for Change series has profiled the work of highly motivated social entrepreneurs, under the age of 40, who are starting to make their mark on the world.
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Change.org scores $15M from Omidyar Network to grow the world’s largest petition service
Popular social petition service Change.org has raised $15 million in new funding — cash that will help it further build up the “world’s largest petition platform.”
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- Impact Assessment, Technology
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Entrepreneurship and Social Impact in the Middle East — Business as Unusual?
It is a striking feature of the growing startup ecosystems in the Middle East that the lines between “entrepreneurship” and “social entrepreneurship” — that is, entrepreneurship that makes a social impact — often blur.
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- Impact Assessment
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- South Asia