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Kenya: M – Lab Wins Impact Economy Innovations Grant
M:Lab East Africa identifies, nurtures and helps build startups in the knowledge economy by providing training, market research, access to finance and infrastructure among many other services.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Paying for Results: Can Banks and Investors Finance Social Success?
Non-profits for everything from homelessness to pre-school have gone to investors to impose capitalist discipline on programs
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Georgetown gets $10M gift for social innovation
Georgetown University has received a $10 million gift for a new center aimed at fostering innovation among students who want to build skills and organizations to solve society’s problems, the school announced Monday.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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- philanthropy
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Report ‘de-risks’ impact investment to open sector up to mainstream
A new report has set out how to de-risk impact investment, which could make the sector more appealing to a wider range of investors. The strategy has been described as a “win-win” because of the financial and social returns it offers.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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South Africa’s Treasury Investigating Financing Social Bonds
The treasury is looking into the feasibility of using an experimental financing mechanism, social impact bonds, to help boost small businesses and job creation
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- Impact Assessment
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The Biggest Social Impact Bond In The U.S. Will Keep At-Risk Young Men In Jobs And Out Of Prison
A new type of philanthropic investment is coming into vogue. Its biggest test just launched in Massachusetts.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Innovative New Initiative from JPMorgan Chase to Catalyze Investment in Low- and Moderate-Income Communities
$33 million to help CDFIs across the country build capacity.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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‘Micro-insurance Impacts Significantly on Social Indices’
The Micro-insurance Network, the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO’s) micro-insurance innovation facility, has said that micro-insurance has impacted positively on the standard of living of low income earners across the world.
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- Education, Impact Assessment