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Press Release: Cross-Border Impact Ventures Announces US $58 Million First Close of Women’s and Children’s Health Technology Fund II
CBIV invests in companies developing technologies that address conditions affecting women and children specifically, differently or disproportionately at the Series A or B stage.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Global
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Analysis: Unlocking Waste-to-Energy for Energy Security and Regional Growth
Energy security has become a pressing global concern. Recent disruptions in energy markets have underscored the vulnerabilities of relying on centralized systems fueled by imported commodities. Mass-burn WtE facilities offer potential solutions here: stable, dispatchable electricity and heat from a fuel—municipal waste—that every city produces locally and continuously. For regions heavily reliant on volatile energy imports, that is no small thing.
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ANDE’s Next Chapter
Announcement via ANDE, "To keep ANDE strong for the long term, we are transitioning to a digital-first operating model."
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- Technology
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Press Release: Increasing Our 2026 Allocation to GiveWell’s Recommendations to $1 Billion
Via Coefficient Giving: "This $1 billion will nearly double the cumulative funding we have previously committed to GiveWell’s recommendations over the last decade. Based on GiveWell’s estimates, we believe that funding has saved over 100,000 lives."
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- Health Care
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Analysis: The AI Sustainability Paradox
AI is being sold as a tool to solve sustainability’s hardest data problems, from Scope 3 emissions to climate-risk intelligence. But the infrastructure behind that intelligence — data centers, water use, energy demand, chips, grids, and community consent — is becoming its own sustainability test. Drawing on conversations at Trellis Impact 26, Ming Wong explores what AI’s physical footprint means for impact investors, corporate sustainability leaders, and the communities being asked to host the next generation of digital infrastructure.
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- Energy, Investing, Technology
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Healthy Diet Too Expensive for One in Three People Globally, UN Report Finds
Global hunger declined for the third year in a row in 2025 but experts call for action to bring down costs of fruit, vegetables and dairy as report shows 2.69bn people can’t afford to eat well.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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Analysis: Your Next Nurse May Monitor You From the Philippines
The country has grown into a “clinical process outsourcing powerhouse … [and] a premier global hub for supporting overstressed international healthcare systems,” JL Botor, president of HIMAP, told Rest of World.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Rockefeller Brothers Fund Names Ian H. Solomon President and CEO
Ian Solomon is currently the dean of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia.
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- Uncategorized
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