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Matt Damon’s Water Charity Takes Impact Investing Plunge
Water.org, the nonprofit resulting from the 2009 merger of Matt Damon’s H2O Africa and Gary White’s WaterPartners, has completed an $11 million impact investing pilot project and has already closed on $33 million in a new fund that they hope will reach $50 million.
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- Environment, Investing
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- impact investing
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The U.S. had a ‘chicken in every pot.’ Pakistan aims for chickens on every plot.
The premise is simple: Provide five hens and one rooster to several million poor families, especially rural women, so they can earn income at home by selling eggs. But Pakistan is also facing dire macroeconomic and fiscal crises, with the rupee plummeting against the dollar and its foreign debt burden soaring out of control.
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- Agriculture
- Region
- South Asia
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Viewpoint: The One Thing That Might Make Impact Investing Catch On
Investors are hungry for data on impact funds — and a group of managers is working hard to gather and crunch information.
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- Investing
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- impact investing
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As Money Moves Offshore, New Questions About How Foundations Invest Their Assets
Throughout philanthropy’s history, it’s drawn intermittent waves of intense criticism, and it certainly feels like we’re heading into one now. Outrage over wealth accumulation, an unbridled tech industry, money in politics and more is inspiring healthy scrutiny from many directions (including us).
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- philanthropy, research
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Perspective: Safaricom ‘stifles’ other telco players, no level playing field
Heated debate over a controversial telecoms report commissioned by the Communications Authority on market dominance was one of the key highlights of Kenya's telco industry this year. The detailed study, carried out by London firm Analysys Mason had some policy recommending that market leader Safaricom share its infrastructure with rivals.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Sparrow’s RefugeeMobile Program Shows Smartphones Help Refugee Families Arriving in the US Resettle More Successfully
The results are in: research shows that smartphones help refugees resettle more successfully. RefugeeMobile, a smartphone program launched in May 2016 with the goal of helping refugee families arriving in the US resettle more successfully, has developed a proven program for refugees who have access to smartphones and data service. Recipients are more likely to integrate, be employed, and have higher paying jobs, according to new research.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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Canada finally gets into the development finance game — will it work?
FinDev Canada, Canada’s development finance institution (DFI), was launched earlier this year, and has pledged to invest $300 million over five years. Canada is the last G7 country to create a DFI.
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- Investing
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- North Africa & Near East
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Econet’s Cassava spin-off wants to be the Tencent of Zimbabwe
Shareholders in Zimbabwe’s largest mobile phone operator are set to become owners of a company with ambitions to be an internet giant of Africa.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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