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Recently, Fundación Avina, Avina Americas, the Omidyar Network and the Rockefeller Foundation joined forces to create the Latin America Impact Economy Innovations Fund. This new fund seeks to support collective actions and a regional market to boost market solutions to achieve social and philanthropic goals, actions to combat poverty and the promotion of the environment. The fund invites all organizations that wish to develop the impact economy to present proposals that seek to add to the growth of the impact investing and inclusive business industry.
Latin America Impact Economy Innovations Fund, An Open Invitation for Proposals: Fundación Avina, Avina Americas, the Omidyar Network and the Rockefeller Foundation are teaming upBlog Post
Despite the challenges, financial institutions can still work to understand the shape of their impact. One promising way is to organize activities around an issue, creating a social lens through which to contextualize and focus investing. From there, an organization can determine how they’re best able to address the issue, which in turn determines appropriate investing filters and social performance metrics. The case of investing through a gender lens is an encouraging example of this strategy, where investing organizes around women’s economic empowerment and access to quality healthcare.
NexThought Monday: Sharpening the Social Impact Lens: Why We Need a Broad, but Clear View on Impact MeasurementNews
The Federal Government is set to launch a N220bn fund to enable Nigerian businesses and citizens that lack access to traditional financial services access such services at a much lower cost.The Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Lamido Sanusi, said this at a press conference on the National Financial Inclusion Strategy in Abuja on Wednesday.
N220bn MFBs’ fund to drive development, financial inclusionNews
"What do you want to be when you grow up?" That is probably the most common question I would get from any family member, friends of family and head-patting adults in general. It was a question that I enjoyed answering when I was 10. The possibilities were endless. But I also wondered why adults like asking that question. Was it because they found a need to keep up with our fleeting, fantastic answers, or was it that they like to reminisce on what could have been for themselves?
Creating space for social enterprise in SingaporeNews
A $20 million agreement signed during the week by the United Nations and Brazil will seek to transfer the expertise of the South American country to support cotton farmers in developing economies.
Nigeria: UN, Brazil Sign U.S.$20 Million Pact to Help Farmers in Developing CountriesBlog Post
Latin America and the world have already demonstrated that inclusive businesses not only exist, but are capable of growing accelerated and profitably. What is missing is showing rates of return that exceed that of the market to attract investors and the traditional actors of economic and entrepreneurial development. Science and technology might be the solution.
Science and Technology: The Next Frontier of Inclusive BusinessNews
$15 million Public-Private Partnership Agreement will enable consortium of global food companies to help transform food processing through its 500+ corporate volunteer network
Partners in Food Solutions, USAID and TechnoServe Expand Partnership to Improve Food Security in AfricaBlog Post
As we near 2015, the world needs to remain focused on securing as much progress as possible on the current set of Millennium Development Goals. UNDP joined forces with Business Fights Poverty, the Business Call to Action, the Overseas Development Institute and the UN Global Compact to explore, from a business perspective, what a future development framework might look like.
The World We Want: Business development will play a much larger role in the future Millennium Development Goals
