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Press release: Financial Solutions Lab Launches $3 Million Year-Four Competition to Support the Financial Health of Underrepresented Communities
Given the diversity of Americans who struggle with financial health, in this year’s Challenge, the Lab is particularly interested in products developed by entrepreneurs of color, women and people with disabilities, and designed to meet the financial needs of often overlooked populations.
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- Finance
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- North America
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Local entrepreneur starts Jamaica’s answer to Amazon
Jamaica's leading information technology magnate Douglas Halsall still has a little way yet to complete his current fixation, which is to fully digitalise operations at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI), Mona.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- North America
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Wheaton College receives $10 million donation to expand its social entrepreneurship programs
The pledge establishes an endowed professorship in social entrepreneurship, provides money for entrepreneurial education programming and launches a fundraising challenge that will help pay for the construction of a dedicated space for the college's existing programs in social innovation.
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- Education
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- North America
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Press release: Community Housing Capital Announces $15 Million Impact Credit Facility with Calvert Impact Capital
“We have had a long-term, successful relationship with Community Housing Capital and this investment continues our support of its mission to create and preserve affordable housing,” said Lucas Pappas, Director of Investments for Calvert Impact Capital. “We are excited to bring new qualified investors into the impact investing space and connect them more directly with strong mission-driven organizations like Community Housing Capital.”
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- Investing
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- North America
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- housing, impact investing
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Press release: Miller Center Launches “Social Entrepreneurship at the Margins” Program
For the first time, up to 20 global social enterprises serving migrants, refugees, and human-trafficking survivors will receive training through Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship’s 15-year-old accelerator program
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- Uncategorized
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- North America
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- accelerators, human rights, migrants, refugees
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Scientists develop sustainable investing framework
"Other frameworks for measuring corporate sustainability focus on how internal corporate production processes at the facility level support environmental integrity or human beneficiaries, but give limited guidance for assessing the longer-term impact of business practices," said Vörösmarty. "Our proposed framework relies on scientifically-based metrics to help investors evaluate how companies' actions, products and services support the environment and human well-being. Indeed, this is a new calculus for sustainable investing."
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- Investing
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- North America
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- ESG, impact investing
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Bill Gates thinks an infectious disease outbreak could kill 30 million people in the next decade — but the US is cutting efforts to prevent global pandemics
Diseases know no national borders and can jump from one species to another, as happened to with Ebola, MERS, SARS, and various other epidemics in recent years. Because of that, many experts think that we need to be better prepared to conduct global disease surveillance in order to prevent future outbreaks.
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- Health Care
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- North America
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New York’s Giant Pension Fund Doubles Climate-Smart Investment
The $2 billion boost was announced at the Investors Summit on Climate Risk, where top fund managers discussed finance for a low-carbon, clean energy future.
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- Environment, Investing
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- North America
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