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Making the Case for Impact Sourcing
Last week, B Corporation, a network of socially responsible "for-benefit" businesses, announced its plans to scale internationally at the Clinton Global Initiative. Many of these businesses are supported by impact investors, a group of double- and triple-bottom-line funders that received little attention until the Rockefeller Foundation launched a major impact investing initiative in 2008.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Social Enterprise – ImpactAssets50 provides view of growing impact investing landscape
SAN FRANCISCO (TrustLaw) - A database of fund managers who invest for maximum social, environmental and financial impact shows that assets under management grew 15 percent compared to last year to $10.2 billion.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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- impact investing, research
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Calling All Social Entrepreneurs
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in cooperation with the United Nations Foundation, Mashable, UNDP, 92Y and Ericsson are hosting the Social Good Summit in New York City this weekend. Even if you can’t go to New York, you can participate.
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- Impact Assessment
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ISB competition for social entrepreneurship ideas
Do you have an idea that has a potential to make a social impact? The Indian School of Business (ISB) has announced iDiya, a nationwide idea competition for working professionals who are interested in starting ventures with a potential to create a positive impact on society.
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- Impact Assessment
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- South Asia
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At UN-backed conference, African officials discuss path to sustainable development
13 September 2012 – Representatives from more than 40 African countries have gathered at a United Nations-backed conference in Arusha, Tanzania, to discuss the region’s strategy to achieve sustainable development and come up with an integrated strategy for the region to encourage environmental initiatives.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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$4 billion planned for investment in social enterprise in 2012: Report
According to a global impact investment market study by JP Morgan, and the Global Impact Investment Network (GIIN), investors see the social enterprise as a market 'in its infancy and growing' with almost $ 4 billion planned for investment in 2012. Over the last eight years $ 600 million has been invested in social enterprises in India itself. The Monitor Institute estimates that over the next 5 - 10 years impact investments will grow to 1 percent of global assets under management, emerging as a new asset class.
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- Impact Assessment
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- South Asia
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34 Places To Find That New Job: Social Innovators Edition
Other than the beloved Idealist.org, where can someone looking for an impactful or innovative job begin their search? For all those looking to enter or shift within the social innovation space, however you define it, optimizing communities and networking seem to be predominant. Here’s a list of sites to bookmark or pass on to a friend on the hunt right now.
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- Impact Assessment
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100 Free Career Videos for Milennials
San Francisco (September 5, 2012) - The online knowledge network iOnPoverty.tv today announced that its entire 2012 video collection is now online and free to students, unemployed graduates and young professionals seeking jobs and careers in economic opportunity and justice work.
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- Impact Assessment