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PRESS RELEASE: Village Capital Announces World’s Largest Peer Selected Venture Capital Fund
VilCap Investments New Fund Continues Using Peer-Selection Model to Support Entrepreneurs Solving the World's Most Pressing Problems.
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GE in $14.7M Vows to Build EA Healthcare Skills
Ahead of the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Nairobi, announced a series of new commitments aimed at addressing some of the most critical health challenges in East Africa through a sustained focus on skills development and capacity building.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Impact investing could help plug $2.5 trillion funding gap for development
Socially responsible investment can help tackle poverty, hunger and climate change. Can the fragmented industry overcome its barriers to becoming a real force for good?
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GE to Launch World-Class Healthcare Training Institute in Nairobi
General Electric Company has announced it is at an advanced stage to launch the first-of-its-kind in Africa institute dedicated to training healthcare specialists and technicians. The GE Healthcare Skills and Training Institute will be located in Karen, Nairobi and is set to open its doors to practicing healthcare professionals and graduate students towards the end on 2015.
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Who’s the Next Impact Target After Goldman Sachs Snaps Up Imprint Capital?
Goldman Sachs’ move to buy San Francisco-based Imprint Capital has the small community of impact investment asset managers and dealmakers buzzing about who might next be asked to dance by a Wall Street suitor.
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Viewpoint: “Social Responsibility” in Investments is Open to Interpretation
Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker has a fascinating idea: People get nicer over time.
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Viewpoint: The Emperor Has No (Green) Clothes
A shiny new object is popping up in impact investment portfolios everywhere – behold, the green bond. A corporate or municipal fixed income instrument offering both market returns AND positive environmental impact, green bonds have emerged over the past six months as a significant area of new issuance. Corporations are issuing carve-out bonds whose proceeds go to infrastructure retrofits, while munis are hopping on the green bandwagon with bonds targeting a wide range of applications, from “clean and green” to affordable housing and school construction.
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When Impact Investing Stays Local
By the mid-1990s, the Houghton family, whose wealth is derived from the glass and ceramic material manufacturer Corning, was into its sixth generation. Many of the cousins felt they had lost touch and were drifting away from the family.
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