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Adding Good Deeds to the Investment Equation
Every two years, the residents of Richmond, Calif., a city long known for some of the highest rates of violence in the United States, gather to discuss its priorities. For years, the No. 1 concern was crime.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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How Impact Philanthropy is Shape-Shifting
A study by Exponent Philanthropy suggests philanthropists and family foundations are becoming more impact-oriented, doling out fewer grants but with larger dollar amounts given to only the top-performing nonprofits.
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A Plan to Empower More Than One Million Women
There is a story that persists around the developing world, to the detriment of families and entire economies: Women are being sidelined from economic progress because of limited access to financial services.
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- microfinance
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Ebola’s low-down on high tech
Advanced equipment has been developed to help protect health-care workers, but the gear may not be helpful in poor countries.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Gates Foundation makes its biggest-ever equity investment in German biotech
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said it would invest $52 million in CureVac, a German biotechnology company that develops vaccines and immunotherapies, marking the foundation's biggest-ever equity investment.
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- Health Care
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Mister Sister clinics roll on
The Mister Sister initiative started almost three years ago is making a positive contribution at enhanced access to primary health care in rural and remote populations in the Otjozondjupa, Omaheke and Khomas Regions.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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MasterCard and Microsoft partner to promote financial inclusion in Mexico
MasterCard and Microsoft announced a partnership to promote economic development in Mexico by supporting the base of the economy, the micro merchant, through comprehensive projects and innovative solutions in information technology, communication and payments
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- Latin America
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For the ‘unbanked’, mobile money still has some way to go
While many people have mobile money accounts – usually with the phone companies - few are actively used.
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