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Viewpoint: Impact Investing’s New Discipline
Impact investors are not asking for less impact — they are asking for more discipline. Drawing on conversations with investors across Miller Center’s network, Brigit Helms explores why execution, unit economics, additionality, and impact-revenue alignment are becoming central to the next phase of social enterprise finance.
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- Agriculture, Social Enterprise
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- Global
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Analysis: Buyers Unite to Accelerate the Market for Low-Carbon Cement
The Sustainable Concrete Buyers Alliance launches a first-of-its-kind procurement, calling for proposals to supply low-emissions cement to meet corporate demand.
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- Environment
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- Global
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Press Release: Rockefeller Foundation Calls for Urgent, Coordinated Response to Record Decline in Global Aid, per New OECD Data
Projections from ISGlobal research and The Lancet Global Health suggest this level of ODA decrease could lead to 9.4 million or more preventable deaths by 2030.
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- Health Care
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- Global
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- data, global development, NGOs, research, SDGs
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World Bank Group Launches Initiative to Improve Water Security for 1 Billion People
The platform will align policy reforms, financing, and partnerships to expand reliable water services and strengthen systems against droughts and floods—essential conditions for job creation.
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- WASH
- Region
- Global
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Workers Around the World Are Not Getting What They Want From AI
A survey of workers in 60 countries found that a majority of those facing the threat of AI-driven job loss do not trust companies or governments to manage the transition fairly.
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- Technology
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- Global
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Analysis: Impact Investing’s Defining Moment
In 2008, the Rockefeller Foundation Board of Trustees approved $38 million to support the Impact Investing Initiative, with the establishment of the Global Impact Investing Network as a key outcome. The GIIN was conceived as the “prime collective action platform” and “chief legacy instrument” to sustain and extend the gains of the initiative (Harji & Jackson, 2012; Jackson & Harji, 2012).
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- Investing
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- Global
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- ESG, impact investing, nonprofits
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GAFSP Announces $38 Million in Grants to Support Smallholder Farmers Across Africa, Asia, and the Americas
The latest allocation by GAFSP places a strong emphasis on strengthening the capacities and financial sustainability of producer organizations, while scaling up tested innovations for smallholder agriculture.
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- Agriculture
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- Global
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Analysis: Does Everything in the Social Sector Need to Scale?
In a world that no longer behaves like a scalable system, success must be something other than growth.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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- Global
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