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Press Release: Villgro Kenya Awards $150K to 12 Startups Fighting COVID-19 in Africa
Following the call for local innovations to fight the novel coronavirus, there has been a wave of new inventions emerging from the East African ecosystem.
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- Coronavirus
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How Mastercard’s CEO is Working Toward Financial Inclusion During the Pandemic
“I believe that digitization is a mechanism to deliver inclusive growth,” he said, “but digitization is also the vehicle for those who are left out to feel even further left out.”
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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Viewpoint: How Emerging Economies Should Navigate Economic Recovery Post-Pandemic
Emerging Asian economies are particularly susceptible to both the public health challenges and the economic consequences of failing to contain the spread of the virus.
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- Coronavirus
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- Asia Pacific
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Press Release: The Visa Foundation Announces Grantees to Support COVID-19 Recovery in U.S. and Canada
The North America funding includes $1 million total towards hunger relief across the U.S. and Canada to Feeding America and Food Banks Canada, respectively. The additional funds will support first responders and health care workers, with grants to the American Red Cross and Direct Relief.
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- Coronavirus
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- North America
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Impact Investor Networks Collaborate to Tackle Covid-19 Fallout
A broad group of impact investing networks supported by several foundations has created a coalition to leverage their combined expertise and capital, and to speed up the information flow on financing needs, to tackle many of the consequences that have surfaced from the coronavirus pandemic.
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- Coronavirus, Investing
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Press Release: CapShift Releases Covid-19 Relief and Response Report
Impact investments can complement grantmaking and accelerate recovery efforts by making more capital available to communities in need.
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- Coronavirus, Investing
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- impact investing
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Protecting Microfinance Institutions and Clients in COVID-19 Crisis
Cordaid Investment Management and a group of other microfinance lenders and key players in inclusive finance worked on a set of principles to better support the microfinance sector in the health and economic crisis caused by the Covid-19.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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Viewpoint: COVID-19 Could Spark A Renewable Energy Boom
The climate problem is not going away. Last month was tied for the warmest April on record globally, and 2020 is on track to be the warmest year ever. Larger and more frequent natural disasters are increasingly likely to happen.
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- Coronavirus, Energy
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- renewable energy