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Press Release: FINCA Impact Finance Secures $15 million Revolving Loan Facility from Calvert Impact Capital
Additional liquidity will bolster the financial network’s ability to deliver financial services to low-income entrepreneurs.
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- Entrepreneurship, Finance
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Press Release: FINCA International Launches Emergency Fund in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
FINCA International, a pioneer in microfinance and social enterprise, announced today the launch of the FINCA Emergency Response Fund. The fund responds to the immediate and ongoing financial, livelihood and health needs of customers and their communities across FINCA's global network of banks and social enterprises in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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Mobilizing Development Banks to Fight COVID-19
Both developed and developing countries urgently need large-scale funding to help maintain economic activity and jobs during the current pandemic. Fortunately, more than 400 development banks around the world can play a vital role in minimizing economic decline, supporting recovery, and financing structural transformation.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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Finally Some Good News On Coronavirus From Sustainable Investors In New York City
Domini Impact Investments, Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), and Office of the New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer are leading a group of 195 institutional investors and investor networks with over $4.7 trillion of assets under management to urge the business community to consider five steps to limit the damage that coronavirus is causing to the global economy.
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- Coronavirus, Investing
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How the Coronavirus Pandemic Will Affect Venture Capital Dealmaking
Businesses need to adapt and continue both during the current crisis and to prepare for the eventual upturn once the situation improves. This includes raising capital through venture capital funding.
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- Coronavirus
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Coronavirus, Economic Meltdown And The World Of Impact: Insights From Allie Burns Of Village Capital
Allie Burns is CEO of Village Capital, which has run early-stage startup accelerators and boot camps for social enterprises since its founding in 2009.
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- Coronavirus, Entrepreneurship
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Closing in on the SDG Home Stretch: A Q&A with Florian Kemmerich and Lucica Ditiu at SDG500
Six new funds comprise the new SDG500 initiative – a first-of-its-kind, $500 million investment platform aimed at accelerating progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Florian Kemmerich at Bamboo Capital Partners and Lucica Ditiu of the Stop TB Partnership spoke with NextBillion to share a behind-the-scenes look at how the initiative aims to reach its goals by 2030.
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Opportunity Fund and the Accion U.S. Network Combine Efforts to Drive Small Business Access to Credit and Advisory Services in the U.S.
Opportunity Fund, the country’s leading nonprofit small business lender, and the Accion U.S. Network, the U.S. affiliate of global nonprofit Accion that has led a nationwide network of community lenders since 2011, will join efforts to form Accion Opportunity Fund, effective immediately.
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