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Press Release: Investors Generate Business Value by Analyzing Social and Environmental Performance Data
The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) today published a new report, The Business Value of Impact Measurement, which outlines how impact measurement and management can generate business value for impact investors and their investee companies.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- North America
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- impact investing
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Securing Water for Food: A Grand Challenge for Development Announces Fourth Call for Innovations
Press Release: The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Sweden through the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (MFA-NL) and the government of South Africa today announced a fourth call for groundbreaking innovations under Securing Water for Food: A Grand Challenge for Development.
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- Agriculture
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- North America
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- innovation
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BlackRock’s Gun-Control Opportunity
The world's biggest asset manager has a problem on its hands. A group of gadflies known as Gays Against Guns, which was formed after the mass shooting at a nightclub in Orlando, wants BlackRock to cut its ties to the firearms industry, as Jeff Green reported.
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- Impact Assessment
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- North America
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Report Examines Current State of Impact Investing Education
A new report by the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation at Georgetown University evaluates the landscape of impact investment education, calling for better philanthropic and corporate funding for training programs and more attention from academic institutions to respond to a fast-changing marketplace.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- North America
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Atlanta Nonprofit Focused on Health Gets $2 Million Award
An Atlanta nonprofit focused on global health known for highlighting the work of its partners is getting a turn in the spotlight and a $2 million award from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation.
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- Health Care
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U.S. Small Business Administration and Grameen America Partner to Provide Microloans for Entrepreneurs
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and Grameen America, Inc., a leading nonprofit microfinance organization, today announced a renewed partnership to extend a capital pipeline to underserved American entrepreneurs. Effective immediately, Grameen America will join SBA's Microloan Program as an intermediary lender recipient of $2.5 million.
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- Uncategorized
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- North America
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Rockefeller Fund Takes First Green Stake in Pivot From Oil
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the foundation divesting from the fossil-fuel industry it helped create, took its first direct stake in a renewable energy company in a move meant to bolster the fight against climate change.
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- Environment
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Press Release: Rijuven Releases ‘Clinic in a Bag’
Clinic in a Bag is the newest and most robust examination platform from Rijuven. Designed to be deployed alongside a clinician to any point of care, Clinic in a Bag or “CIB” provides clinical decision support outside of the facility by combining a highly comprehensive suite of connected devices with cloud analysis, remote monitoring capabilities, telemedicine connectivity, EMR patient management and on-demand scheduling.
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- Health Care
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- North America
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