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This investing app lets anyone with $50 invest in companies that make money by doing good
Swell is an impact investing platform that helps users invest in high-growth companies that produce — and derive revenue from — products or services that address the environmental and social challenges as outlined by the UN Sustainable Development goals.
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Press release: Investor initiative chooses ideas that will mobilize investment for sustainable cities, energy access, blue carbon, and sustainable agriculture in developing countries
The new ideas target four areas where accelerated investment for climate adaptation and mitigation is urgent: sustainable cities, energy access, blue carbon in coastal & marine ecosystems, and sustainable agriculture for smallholder farmers in West & Central Africa.
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- Energy, Environment, Investing
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The MacArthur Foundation is giving away another $100 million gift–and helping others make big bets
After the success of the original 100&Change contest, the foundation is repeating the experiment, and spinning off a competition nonprofit to help other foundations give game-changing sums to promising solutions.
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Press release: SoftBank Group Corp. Announces Launch of New $5 Billion Technology Growth Fund for Latin America
The unique traits and rapid economic development of the Latin American market, coupled with the fact that it represents 10% of the world’s population and 8% of the world’s GDP (two times the GDP of India and half that of China), present significant growth opportunities for rapid technology deployment at scale and disruptive innovation.
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- Technology
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- Latin America
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Viewpoint: The Problem With Opportunity Zones
The framework, funded in part by the Kresge Foundation, is an important first set of principles to guide this rapidly emerging market. But those principles are only as useful as their adoption.
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Growth in ‘gender-smart’ investing helps sisters do it for themselves
The value of private funds with a gender focus reached $2.2 billion in the year to July 2018, 73 percent higher than the same period in 2016/17, according to a report by Wharton business school and consultancy Catalyst at Large.
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MacArthur Commits $150 Million to Make Impact Investing Easier for Others
Solving really big problems, like extreme poverty around the world and climate change, will take trillions of dollars, says Rajiv Shah, president of the Rockefeller Foundation. "To bring that kind of capital to bear on the problems we hope to solve, we will need to work closely across philanthropic, public, and private sources of capital."
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Press release: Grant awarded to pilot ‘SHIFT KENYA’, first of its kind model to increase access to finance for healthcare SMEs
“SHIFT is the kind of blended finance solution that gets us excited. Not only does it aim to strengthen local capital markets and get local institutional investors off the sidelines, but if successful, SHIFT has the potential to be expanded and replicated in other sectors and countries outside of healthcare and Kenya,” says Joan Larrea, CEO of Convergence.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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