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Press Release: Villgro Kenya Awards $150K to 12 Startups Fighting COVID-19 in Africa
Following the call for local innovations to fight the novel coronavirus, there has been a wave of new inventions emerging from the East African ecosystem.
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- Coronavirus
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Food Security During – And After – COVID-19: A Short and Long-Term Strategy for Funding Agribusiness
Over the past 18 months, Grassroots Capital Management had been preparing to launch a fund and technical assistance facility to improve access to capital and technology for smallholder farmers in Central America and the Caribbean. And then COVID-19 happened. Anna Kanze at Grassroots discusses how the pandemic has changed the landscape for smallholders in the region, requiring a new approach from the investors that support them.
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- Agriculture, Coronavirus
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Impact Investor Networks Collaborate to Tackle Covid-19 Fallout
A broad group of impact investing networks supported by several foundations has created a coalition to leverage their combined expertise and capital, and to speed up the information flow on financing needs, to tackle many of the consequences that have surfaced from the coronavirus pandemic.
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- Coronavirus, Investing
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Press Release: CapShift Releases Covid-19 Relief and Response Report
Impact investments can complement grantmaking and accelerate recovery efforts by making more capital available to communities in need.
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- Coronavirus, Investing
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GIIN Launches Impact Investing Coronavirus Taskforce
Impact investing giants from across the globe are joining forces to fight the devastating and widespread economic and social consequences of COVID-19.
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Press Release: DOMINI Launches the Domini Sustainable Solutions Fund to Help Tackle Global Sustainability Challenges
Domini Impact Investments LLC, a U.S. pioneer in the impact investing field, is pleased to announce the recent launch of the Domini Sustainable Solutions Fund, a new mutual fund dedicated to investing in innovative, solution-oriented companies contributing solutions to global sustainability challenges.
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It Takes a Bank to Rebuild a City: JPMorgan, Detroit and the Value of Private Sector Solutions to Urban Decay
Many large U.S. cities have fallen victim to extreme urban decay – and nowhere does this ring truer than in Detroit. But according to Mike Brown at LendEDU, the city is experiencing a turnaround, due in part to a five-year, $150 million investment by JPMorgan Chase. He explores why private sector giants should use their financial might to build upon this success.
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Viewpoint: Downturn Signals Opportunity for Climate-Aligned Investing
Demand for sustainable ETFs has grown since the market downturn. Recent analysis from BlackRock highlights how sustainable ETFs keep attracting assets, in comparison with traditional ETFs, which are experiencing outflows in light of the market selloff. As of March 24, net inflows to sustainable ETFs had reached $14 billion, exceeding half of the 2019 total amount.
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- Coronavirus, Environment, Investing
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