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Curbing the “Impact Impostors”: The growing movement toward transparency in impact investing
Impact investing’s rising popularity has spawned some unfortunate side effects. For instance, as demand for a social component has grown among investors, so have efforts to brand standard equity investments with the impact label – even when their actual impact is negligible. In the final post of his series, Bill Burckart details the efforts of policy makers, regulators and investors to address this issue.
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- Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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Aavishkar Venture Capital to Raise $400 Million in 2015
Aavishkar, the country's biggest social entrepreneurship-focused venture capital fund, is set to raise $400 million (Rs 2,500 crore) in 2015. This would be the biggest amount raised by any fund focusing on the social sector or impact investing in the country.
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- Investing
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- South Asia
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How ‘Desh’ Deshpande Is Helping Indian NGOs Scale Up
Tech billionaire Gururaj 'Desh' Deshpande is helping NGOs scale up and sustain philanthropy initiatives on their own steam. His formula for self-reliance is relevance followed by innovation.
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- South Asia
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Viewpoint: Charity and Investment Should Work Together
When it comes to our greatest social and environmental challenges, let’s first ask: What problem are we trying to solve? Once we know where we’re headed, we can better understand which methods and resources are most needed. Charity and social enterprise both have critical roles. Increasingly, we are seeing the ways charity and social enterprise and investment can work together effectively – along with smart government policy – to drive real and lasting change.
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The Supply Chains of the Future: How Tau Investment Management is using strategic supply chain investment to transform the garment industry
Factory fires and collapses have killed almost 2,000 workers in Bangladesh’s garment industry in the past 10 years. Tau Investment Management is addressing these challenges by investing to create a better supply chain. Benjamin Skinner, Tau’s co-founder and senior vice president, discusses the approach in part five of our Impact Investing Insights video series.
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- Environment
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Impact and Risk Metrics…in Smallholder Finance and Beyond: Three new metrics collaboration tools from the Initiative for Smallholder Finance
In financing smallholder farmers, there’s a gap of over $400 billion between demand and supply. Impact and risk metrics can play an important role in closing that gap, but current metrics are confusing to industry leaders and daunting to potential new entrants. The Initiative for Smallholder Finance has created three new metrics collaboration tools to help clarify the space.
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- Agriculture, Impact Assessment
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What Was 2014’s Most Influential Post?: You tell us – VOTE
In 2014, we published more than 570 blog posts. Now it’s your turn. We need your vote for NextBillion’s annual Most Influential Post contest. Last year’s contest attracted more than 16,000 ballots. That was huge – we’d be thrilled to do even better this year if we can. So please vote early and vote often. You can vote once a day, and for multiple posts if you choose. Please share this link or the contest link itself with your friends, family and colleagues.
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- Agriculture
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November’s Most-Read, Most-Shared Posts on NB
In November, transparency in impact investing – on both the investment fund side and the investee company side – was something worth pondering. As investing with social and environmental purpose continues to grow and bleed into the mainstream, so do the calls for clear standards and open access to what constitutes impact – e.g. who’s really profiting?
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