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Bridging the Chasm Within Southeast Asia’s Social Enterprise Ecosystem
While impact investing continues to grow in popularity globally, there is a shortage of social enterprises in Asia ready to take on the amount of capital and return assumptions needed to balance impact with the market-rate returns desired by many impact investors. Fixing the problem will require blurring the boundaries between commonly defined funding spaces – a key topic at the upcoming AVPN Conference.
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- Events and Competitions, Investing
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African governments set to stare down a healthy PATH
While several African countries have invested in a growing pipeline of high-impact, cost-effective innovations for healthcare, the innovations were largely reliant on foreign investments, according to Craig Friderichs, a country director of international health NGO PATH.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Women’s Economic Empowerment: SEEP Forum to Tackle a Vital Issue of our Time
Women play multifaceted roles in market systems, as smallholder farmers, employees and owners of business enterprises, clients of financial institutions, and unpaid care workers, among many others. That's why the SEEP Network is hosting an international convening on women’s economic empowerment in May that aims to narrow the divide between best practices and informed policy decisions, exploring topics that are emerging as critical constraints to women’s economic empowerment across the globe.
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- Entrepreneurship, Events and Competitions
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From Robotic Exoskeletons to ‘Uber’ for the Disabled: How Social Tech Startups Can Transform Health Care
Today, thanks to technology, individuals and startups can tackle issues that previously could only be addressed by governments and big business – including health care. Here, in advance of June's AVPN Conference in Bangkok, the social tech acceleration program Tech For Good recognizes five companies that are harnessing technology in innovative ways to solve health care and safety issues.
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- Events and Competitions, Health Care, Technology
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Impact Investing Contemplates the Path Ahead: A Q&A with Big Path Capital’s Co-Founders
With Big Path Capital's Impact Capitalism Summit happening this week (right now, in fact), we caught up with Big Path co-founders Michael Whelchel and Shawn Lesser to discuss the event and impact investing's evolution. They shared their insights in this email interview.
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Hooked on Sustainable Fish? Great – Now Let’s Help Fishers Who Net Them
Small-scale fishing operations play a critical role in food security and alleviating poverty, but face many challenges in developing countries. The Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership, which has helped build social businesses that train fishers and fish farmers to adopt sustainable practices, is among a growing group of stakeholders working toward a common goal of preserving our oceans and fisheries.
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- Entrepreneurship, Environment
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‘Wall Street Meets Impact’: SOCAP’s Owners – New and Old – Discuss its Move Toward the Mainstream
Last month, SOCAP made headlines with a bold announcement: The network of social impact-focused investors and entrepreneurs is moving to new ownership to "begin expanding its brand reach to larger, more mainstream audiences." As its first initiative, this new-look SOCAP is launching the Good Capital Project, which aims to "drive greater collaboration and accelerate capital flows into purpose driven investments." We discussed these developments with SOCAP's co-founder, Kevin Jones, and John Morris of V2V Associates, who helped pull the new ownership deal together.
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The Regenerative Economy: A New Approach to Capitalism
Bill Kramer doesn't subscribe to a basic tenet of neoliberalism – that man is selfish and markets are an efficient way to channel that basic human trait. He and other entrepreneurs and academics working under the general umbrella of “regenerative future” studies believe optimal productivity can be restored only when natural systems are fully understood. The topic will be further explored at the upcoming Regenerative Future Summit.
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- Entrepreneurship, Events and Competitions
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