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Interview: How COVID-19 Will Affect Impact Investing in India
Geeta Goel, country director, India, of the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, talks about the need for responsible capitalism
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- Coronavirus, Education, Investing
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- South Asia
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COVID-19 as Inflection Point for Social Investing
The COVID-19 pandemic seems to be marking a major change in thinking and perceptions across health, justice, as well as, in government, corporate, and personal responsibility. All of a sudden the concept of “social responsibility” is less conceptual or academic and is now more visceral and relevant to daily life, business, and employment realities. Every day in the new
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- Investing
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Crowdfunding For Clean Energy — Raise Green Launches New Marketplace
Founded by Peter Krajsa and Matthew Brown, NEIF currently manages more than $800 million worth of “innovative energy financing programs.”
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Impact Investors Retreat as Global Shutdown, Social Unrest Raise Fears and Uncertainty
Social-impact investing may not begin to recover until after investors get a sense of how the pandemic will play out this quarter, Silver Leaf’s Scanlon says.
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- Investing
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- impact investing
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Impact Investing App GoParity Launches First Green Energy Project in Africa
GoParity, an impact investment platform based in Portugal and with more than 2.1 million euros of investment raised for environmentally and socially responsible projects is now launching its first project in Africa.
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- Energy, Environment, Investing
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How You Can Invest in Racial Justice
A history of discrimination and inequality has led to dramatic gaps in wealth, investment, and income between white communities and minority communities. Yale SOM’s Teresa Chahine and a panel of experts discussed how businesses, financial firms, and regular investors can make choices that empower local businesses and increase opportunity.
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- Investing
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Press Release: Kiva Receives USAID Design Funding to Structure Innovative $100M Fund to Support 1 Million Women Globally
Financial inclusion non-profit Kiva is announcing a partnership under the White House-led Women’s Global Development and Prosperity (W-GDP) Initiative with USAID to advance women’s economic empowerment by increasing access to financing for women entrepreneurs and business owners
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- Investing
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Press Release: MovingWorlds Announces New Social Enterprise Program, S-Grid, to Accelerate Post-COVID Recovery
Sustainable Growth of Revenues for International Development; in partnership with SAP; building skills and capacity of social enterprises and small business; connecting them to corporations for more sustainable and equitable practices; creating a regenerative economy
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- Coronavirus, Investing