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Nonprofits Are Seeking Profits
The International Non-Governmental Impact Investing Network has released a report showing how not-for-profit organizations are actually chasing profits by embracing the concept and process of impact investing.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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U.S. Court Upholds United Nations’ Immunity in Cholera Suit
A United States federal appeals panel has upheld that the United Nations cannot be sued in American courts, dealing a setback in a class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of thousands of cholera victims in Haiti.
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- Health Care
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- North America
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How Fortune’s ‘Change the World’ Companies Profit From Doing Good
Few companies today can claim to be entering their fourthcentury in business. GlaxoSmithKline GSK -1.15% , the $37-billion-in-revenue pharmaceutical giant, is one of them, tracing its roots—by way of various corporate iterations, mergers, and rechristenings—to a London apothecary called Plough Court Pharmacy, established in 1715.
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- Impact Assessment
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Mobile Money boom: Thousands scramble for agency jobs in Ghana
According to the Bank of Ghana, the number of registered mobile money agents has now hit 93,376 as of the end of the first three months of this year, which is a 200 percent increase in the number of registered agents in just a year.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Uganda is trying to close a for-profit school chain backed by Zuckerburg, Gates and the World Bank
Ugandan education officials have called for the closure of 63 nurseries and primary schools operated by Bridge International Academies (BIA), a controversial for-profit school chain that offers standardized, internet-based education in developing countries.
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- Education
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World Economic Forum Examines How Blockchain Can Reshape Financial Services
On August 11, 2016, the World Economic Forum (WEF) released a 300-page report entitled The future of financial infrastructure: An ambitious look at how blockchain can reshape financial services , exploring how the financial sector "could overcome current-state pain points through distributed ledger technology (DLT)."
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- Technology
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Wambo.org – the New Online Marketplace
At the end of May 2016, the Global Fund formally announced wambo.org, a new online marketplace where currently implementers of Global Fund grants can check prices and place orders for directly for medicines, other health products and non-health commodities. There are plans to expand the reach of wambo.org even further.
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Press Release: Investors Generate Business Value by Analyzing Social and Environmental Performance Data
The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) today published a new report, The Business Value of Impact Measurement, which outlines how impact measurement and management can generate business value for impact investors and their investee companies.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- North America
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