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Clean Energy Investments Do Not Always Mean a Clean Human Rights Record
Investing in renewable energy seems like a savvy, progressive investor’s ideal scenario. Public policy, popular demand and shifting technologies are all converging to create a potentially high-growth, high-return industry that benefits the environment. But in the transition to renewables, are investors overlooking any issues? Who truly benefits from these investments? Who gets left behind?
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- Energy, Environment, Investing
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The Philanthropy World is Embracing Impact Investing
Instead of just using the stock market, more and more foundations putting their endowments into projects that help the world–including hitting the Sustainable Development Goals.
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- Investing
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- impact investing, philanthropy, SDGs
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Ladies, here’s the world’s first responsible investment platform just for you
Women are more concerned about the impacts of their investments, not just the rate of return. New investment platform Moxie Future wants to tap into women’s growing financial clout and guide them towards more responsible investment.
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- Investing
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Affordable Capital For Small Businesses And Other Innovative Vehicles For The Impact Investing World
Called Capital Aggregation, it’s a recently launched business line for Calvert Foundation, aimed at mission-driven companies, as well as financial advisors and their accredited clients who are interested in fixed-income impact investment deals.
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- Investing
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- impact investing
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National Geographic Society Commits $50 Million of Endowment to Impact Investments
Creation of new impact investment program, managed by CA Capital Management, will accelerate the organization's funding of research, exploration and education, inspiring solutions for the global good.
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- Investing
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How’s That Unique Impact Investing Effort Playing Out in Chicago?
Last year, we highlighted an innovative initiative that aims to let pretty much anyone with a little extra money get involved in financing efforts to tackle societal problems. It’s a $100 million collaboration called Benefit Chicago that involves the MacArthur Foundation, Chicago Community Trust, and the Calvert Foundation. And basically, it brings the complicated realm of impact investing down to a much more public and accessible level.
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- Investing
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- North America
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Coca-Cola, Partners to spend $1.7 million billion on Indian agri system
To be contributed by the company, its bottling partners, fruit suppliers and processors, the amount will be for the entire supply chain from "grove to glass through a concept called 'Fruit Circular Economy'," Coca-Cola India said in a statement.
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- Agriculture, Investing
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- South Asia
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- impact investing
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Why Impact Investing Has Reached a Tipping Point
Impact investing, the practice of taking environmental, social and governance factors into consideration in making investment decisions, refers to the full range of approaches within the category, including socially responsible investing.
The enthusiasm for Geczy’s impact investing class echoes another data point cited by panelists as an indicator of the ascendance of impact investing: According to a recent Bank of America survey, 85% of millennials are interested in, or are actively doing, impact investing.- Categories
- Investing
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- impact investing