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Impact Investing and Social Enterprise: New Developments, Challenges, and Opportunities for NonprofitsNews
Other benefits like peace and a livable planet notwithstanding, the financial cost of socially responsible investing appears to be high.
OPINION: Socially responsible investing an expensive tasteBlog Post
Virginia Gardiner, inventor of the Loowatt toilet system, says sanitation infrastructure has to move off the grid, just as mobile communications did in the 20th century. She points to a growing number of companies, including her own, that are piloting the provision of non-sewered sanitation to households thorough container-based sanitation, a system that presents the most viable alternative for urban areas in need of sanitation solutions.
Rethinking the Flush Toilet: It’s Time to Move Sanitation Infrastructure Off the GridNews
Such impact is more often drip, drip than earth shattering light bulb moment.
Of Course Research Has Impact. Here’s how.Blog Post
Village Enterprise implements a cost-effective, group-based, one-year graduation program for rural Africans who live on less than $1.90 per day. The organization believes that entrepreneurship is not just for the naturally business-minded, it's a skill like leadership or teamwork that can be fostered and learned. Its aim, therefore, is to unlock the potential of those who are entrepreneurs by nature and instill the skills of entrepreneurship in those who are not.
Entrepreneurship is a Skill, Not a Talent: The Power of the Group-Based Graduation ModelBlog Post
Most job growth will come from STEM fields, yet women make up only 12 percent of engineering students. That’s why MIT’s new Solve initiative launched a Women and Technology Challenge asking for technology-fueled solutions that enable women and girls’ full participation in the economy. Selected solutions will receive support from cross-sector leaders interested in investing in innovative social impact projects – the Solve challenge deadline is Aug. 1.
To Fix the Gender Gap, Fix the Digital Divide
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“…there are more than 50 crore (500 million) feature phone users who have been left out of the digital revolution,” Ambani said at Reliance Industries’ annual general meeting in Mumbai, where he launched the JioPhone.
Mukesh Ambani has a four-letter strategy to win India’s telecom wars—freeCalendar Event
Impact Investor Gathering in New York City
