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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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Analysis: The Gig Workers who are Training Humanoid Robots at Home in Emerging Markets
People in Nigeria and India are strapping iPhones onto their heads and recording themselves doing chores.
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- Technology
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Analysis: Nations Priced Out of Big AI Are Building With Frugal Models
Amid a widening global divide in AI adoption, low-cost AI models that can deliver sovereignty and efficiency with a smaller environmental footprint are gaining ground.
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LaSalle Raises $370 Million for New Real Estate Decarbonization Fund
LaSalle said that it intends to partner with JLL to leverage its capabilities across energy, sustainability, and property management, alongside a global network of relationships, in order to support the delivery of Lp3F’s strategy.
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- Environment, Investing
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Climate Investment Raises $450 Million to Scale Breakthrough Decarbonization Technologies and Bridge Climate Tech’s Missing Middle
Decarbonization Acceleration Fund (DAF) targets companies with validated technologies and commercial traction across heavy-emitting sectors including energy, industry, transport and buildings.
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- Environment, Investing
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Tazapay Raises $36 Million in Total Series B Funding to Scale Next-Generation Payment Rails Globally; Circle Ventures Leads Extension
The extension reflects investor alignment around Tazapay's regulated, last-mile infrastructure, which harnesses modern digital settlement technology to power cross-border payments for businesses operating across emerging markets — replacing legacy banking rails with faster, more capital-efficient alternatives.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Global
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