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GIIN Appoints Prudential’s Grier as New Board Chair
The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) today announced the appointment of Mark Grier as its new Board Chair. Grier serves as Vice Chairman at Prudential Financial Inc. Grier’s appointment marks a milestone in the advancement of the GIIN, which will benefit from Prudential’s more than 40 years of institutional impact investing experience.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Accion Venture Lab Marks Second Successful Exit, Driving Social and Financial Impact from Investment in Clip
Accion Venture Lab, the seed-stage investment initiative of financial inclusion leader Accion, announced today that it has marked its second successful exit, further demonstrating the potential for early stage investments to generate social and financial returns. Venture Lab has sold its stake in Clip, a Palo Alto and Mexico City-based company that provides cost-effective and efficient digital payment solutions to the often financially underserved segment of micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Mexico.
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- Investing
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- Latin America
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- impact investing
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Getting the balance right in African healthcare
Although many African countries' increased focus on strengthening their healthcare systems has led to significant gains in terms of improving health outcomes, the continent continues to struggle with huge challenges such as underfunding, dire shortages of healthcare professionals and a growing double disease burden that encompasses both communicable diseases (CDs) and non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Social Business Roundup: Laureate Education Goes Big, Omidyar Gives Directly, Surdna Foundation Embraces Impact Investing
In social business news this week, the world's biggest for-profit college company raised $490 million in its public debut, Omidyar Network gave a $493,000 grant to support GiveDirectly's mission of sending unconditional cash transfers to the poor, and the Surdna Foundation announced plans to dedicate 10 percent of its endowment ($100 million) to a new impact investing fund. Read about these developments and more in our news roundup.
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- Education, Health Care, Investing, Social Enterprise
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Investors Are Pouring Money Into Conservation Efforts (It’s Actually A Great Investment)
From sustainable "blue economy" projects to restoration projects for wetlands, streams, and animal habitats, conservation-related projects have been drawing a significant amount of investor money in recent years. Investments that produce a financial return and a "measurable environmental result" climbed 62% from 2013-2015, a new report found, indicating that traditional divisions between conservation, philanthropy and for-profit finance may be withering.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment, Investing
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- North America
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- blue economy, ESG, impact investing
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Profits? Nice, but for These Investors, Conscience Matters More
Seth Holehouse, who owns an auction house in New York City, has focused his investments on renewable energy and recycled products. He has done so for the last five years — despite steadily losing money on the strategy.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- North America
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Clinton Foundation President Donna Shalala talks finances, focus and the future
Describing the past 18 months as “intense” and “challenging,” Clinton Foundation President Donna Shalala was eager to reassure that the foundation is “alive and well and thriving” in a call with a small group of reporters on Friday. “Rumors of our demise are greatly exaggerated,” she said.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- North America
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More Evidence of Impact Investing Growth–And What It Means for Social Entrepreneurs
Sustainable, responsible and impact (SRI) investing is expanding, offering new opportunities for social enterprises, especially those registered as Benefit Corporations.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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