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Mastercard Inc : The SEEP Network Partners with MasterCard to Promote Innovative Uses of Technology
Washington, DC, November 7, 2012 - The SEEP Network's two-day 2012 Annual Conference titled, "Building Inclusive Markets: Impact through Financial and Enterprise Solutions" kicks off on Wednesday, November 7 in Arlington, VA.
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- Impact Assessment, Technology
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RBC announces $1 million donation to MaRS Centre for Impact Investing
TORONTO, Nov. 8, 2012 /CNW/ - RBC today announced a historic, $1 million, five-year commitment to support the MaRS Centre for Impact Investing. With this donation, RBC becomes a founding partner of the Centre, launched in late 2011 to increase awareness of social finance and direct new capital and talent to tackle social and environmental problems in Canada.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Lok Capital is re-inventing strategy for social impact
Rajiv B Lall, 55, managing director and chief executive officer of Infrastructure Development Finance Company talks unlike his peers in glamorous investment banking and private equity business despite spending over thirty years with institutions such as Warburg Pincus, Morgan Stanley and Asian Development Bank.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- South Asia
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Is Obama’s re-election a boon for US foreign aid?
Barack Obama reelection Tuesday (Nov. 6) as U.S. president suggests a continuation of U.S. foreign aid reforms focused on food aid, global health, country ownership and private sector engagement.
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- governance
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Education boosts role of local women
Women in the Tibet autonomous region enjoy rising social status and are stepping beyond their traditional roles, according to an official at the Tibet Women's Federation.
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- Education
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- Asia Pacific
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Goonj founder this year’s top social entrepreneur
Almost 13 years ago an idea then considered a ‘non-issue’, fructified into an NGO — Goonj, got recognised on Tuesday evening, as its founder Anshu Gupta was adjudged the ‘Social Entrepreneur of the Year India 2012”.
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- Uncategorized
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- South Asia
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Husk Power Systems raises $5 million for expansion
Husk Power Systems, a Bihar-based company that runs micro power plants on agricultural waste, has raised Series A equity financing of $5 million (Rs 27 crore) from co-investors Bamboo Finance, Acumen Fund, and LGT Venture Philanthropy.
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- Energy, Environment
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- South Asia
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- impact investing
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Study paints sad picture of women in poor countries
Women perform more than half of all economic activities in developing countries but only a third of their work is captured by statisticians, a new report says.This means women are likely to miss out on business, industrial and social development opportunities arising from globalisation.
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- Education
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa