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Google buys Seattle health monitoring startup Senosis, bolstering digital health push
Patel, who founded Senosis Health with four other clinicians, researchers and tech transfer experts from the University of Washington, won a MacArthur genius grant in 2011 and his past innovations have ranged from energy meters to air quality sensors.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- North America
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How this social entrepreneur is bringing banks to the fingertips of the unbanked
Humaniq was launched in 2016 with a vision to build a world where the unbanked and underbanked around the world also have access to the banking and financial transactions. An estimated 2 billion people can be brought under the umbrella of financial inclusion with Humaniq’s services.
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- Entrepreneurship, Financial Inclusion, Technology
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- North America
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Tiny biotech firm offers Big Tobacco model to curb its nicotine habit
The plant biotechnology company says it has more than 200 patents that give it the ability to increase or decrease the level of nicotine in tobacco plants, as well as the level of cannabinoids in cannabis plants.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- North America
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- biotech, public health, smoking, tobacco
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Public Favors Nonprofit over For-profit Social Enterprise
Three consumer psychologists recently performed a series of studies looking at consumers’ reactions to for-profit social ventures in contrast to nonprofits. They try hard to make a case for the proliferation of for-profit social enterprise, but it is pretty clear that the public is still skeptical.
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- Uncategorized
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- North America
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Rockefeller Foundation, Nonprofit ETF Plan to Expand ESG Strategies
With a secured $300,000 grant from one of the nation’s foremost philanthropies, Impact Shares will be launching the first of its innovative social issue-related ETFs in late 2017, according to a note.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- North America
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OPINION: Social Entrepreneurship’s All-American Mind Trap
The notion of social entrepreneurship has become an arousing and intoxicating subject that has turned the social entrepreneurship discourse into a grand narrative.
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- Entrepreneurship
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- North America
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Where Will JPMorgan Chase Put Its 200 Billion Green Dollars?
JP Morgan Chase aims to funnel a staggering $200 billion into sustainability efforts by 2025, primarily by supporting wind and solar projects around the world; but a sustainable economy needs more than just renewable energy. It needs healthy forests, farms, and fields; and the bank has a history of supporting the restoration economy that supports these.
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- Investing
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- North America
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U.S. Impact Investing Alliance Launches to Scale the Practice of Impact Investing
The Alliance was founded last year by representatives from philanthropy, business and finance to champion the potential of impact investing by increasing awareness of impact investing in the U.S., fostering deployment of and demand for impact capital across asset classes globally, and by partnering with policymakers and other stakeholders to build the impact investing ecosystem.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- North America
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