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Impact Labs Launches First-of-a-Kind Algorithmic Socially Responsible Portfolio-Generation Software
Introducing: Socially-Selective℠ Investing. If you feel strongly, for example, about climate change, equality, sustainability, gun control, and dozens more, now you can have your values reflected in your investment portfolio. The software builds a properly diversified investment portfolio while optimizing for social value andmaximizing after-tax performance.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing, Technology
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- impact investing
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A Tale of Clean Cities: How to Solve the Urban Sanitation Challenge
Over half of the world’s population now live in urban areas, and that figure is set to continue rapidly rising. By 2050, it’s estimated that more than two thirds of people will be living in cities. Most of these additional people will live in unplanned settlements or slums without adequate basic services, such as access to clean water and toilets.
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- Environment, Health Care
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Nonprofits Fret as Clinton Foundation Plans to Transfer Programs
Clinton Foundation President Donna Shalala said Wednesday that the organization has largely solidified plans to terminate, reconstitute, or hand off the bulk of its international programs if Hillary Clinton is elected president. It would be a major undertaking — the political context is without precedent, for starters — and has some nonprofit leaders worried.
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- Impact Assessment
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Young Doctors Don’t Want to Go to Rural Areas Because They Feel Ill-Equipped
Recently, there has been several reports on India’s comatose public health system: From a man in Orissa carrying his wife’s body because he was denied a mortuary van to a hospital in Rajasthan where patients are forced to sit outside the hospital and hang their IV bottles from nails hammered into tree trunks, the situation is dismal.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Bob Collymore Shoots Down Claims of Facebook Buying MPesa Platform
Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore has dismissed as fake the story doing the rounds on the interwebs that Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg wants to buy mobile money platform M-Pesa.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Cisco Targets India With Strategic Digital Solutions Across Sectors
Global networking heavyweight Cisco Ltd. is making several strategic moves in India to strengthen its market in India.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Discovery to Take South Africa e-Health Entrepreneurs to Silicon Valley
South African insurance firm Discovery has launched its Entrepreneurs Medical Technology programme, which will take local e-health startups on a trip to Silicon Valley later this year.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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MIT IDE Inclusive Innovation Competition Announces Finalists
The MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (IDE) today announced the finalists for the Inclusive Innovation Competition (IIC). IIC Core Judges delivered over one thousand reviews to identify the first official class of IIC finalists - 24 organizations that are inventing a more inclusive, productive, and sustainable future for all.
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- Technology
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- innovation
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