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Why social impact investing is going mainstream
Social impact investing is taking off, says Pax World CEO Joseph Keefe, not simply because investors care about diversity and sustainability, but because companies focusing on those issues deliver strong long-term results.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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What’s The Future For Impact Investing?
The biggest challenge--and opportunity--is to get the 99% involved in investing for social good.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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SimPrints wins £250,000 from Gates Foundation to develop fingerprint scanner
UK start-up SimPrints announced it has received a £250,000 grant in funding to develop a fingerprint scanner that some are calling a “game-changer” in global healthcare, according to Cambridge News.
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- Health Care
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Humans give malaria to mosquitoes – we need a vaccine to stop this
On Wednesday, the world marks World Mosquito Day to commemorate the 1897 discovery by British doctor Sir Ronald Ross that malaria in people is transmitted to and from mosquitoes. Ross won a Nobel prize for his discovery, and, since then, mosquitoes have been enemy No 1 when it comes to defeating a disease that takes a life every single minute – most of them children in sub-Saharan Africa. But on this day, let’s focus on approaching malaria in a surprising new way: a vaccine to stop humans from giving malaria to mosquitoes.
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- Education, Health Care
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- product design, research, vaccines
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Sanford looks to build hundreds of Ghana clinics
Sanford Health is looking to open more than 300 clinics in Ghana in the next five years to treat millions of patients. The Dakotas-based health network has opened five clinics in the African nation since 2012 and broke ground last week for a sixth.The clinics have treated more than 180,000 patients.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Power Africa: Ghana To Attract $4bn From America
Recently, Ghana signed a Power Compact with the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), making it the current largest American Government-funded transaction of President Obama’s Power Africa initiative.The Ghana Power Compact facilitates the investment of up to $498.2 million for the transformation of Ghana’s power sector while also stimulating private investments. Eventually, the deal is expected to raise more than $4 billion from American and global energy firms.
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- solar
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Safaricom cuts fees on low and medium value M-PESA transfers
Leading integrated communications service provider Safaricom has announced a targeted reduction of transaction fees levied by the operator on its most popular person to person M-PESA transaction bands.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Using mobile money to buy water and solar power in east Africa
Mobile phones are facilitating access to utilities in poor rural communities. But do consumers have the faith to go cashless?
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- Agriculture, Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- solar
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