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ClearlySo raises £800,000 to help support social entrepreneurs
Big Society Capital and Body Shop co-founder amongst backers of social impact investment intermediary
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PRESS RELEASE: Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners Strengthens Global Private Equity Impact Investing Capabilities
David Wilton Joins Morgan Stanley from International Finance Corporation.
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Global Innovation Fund Receives $200m from Omidyar Network, Governments of Australia, Sweden, UK, US
The Global Innovation Fund (GIF), a UK-based nonprofit, recently announced its launch in the US city of New York. GIF plans to fund “social innovations” brought forward by nonprofit entities as well as for-profit organizations and government.
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New Calvert chief sees two trends in sustainable investing
John Streur, incoming CEO of Calvert Investments Inc., sees "two broad trends that are really coming together to shape and influence socially responsible investing."
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NexThought Monday: Social Financing: Three Opportunities and Three Questions
Combining the creation of social impact with financial returns is hard. Demonstrating social impact can be just as hard, and using impact analysis to actually improve a social investment strategy so that it creates greater social impact and financial returns is even harder. This is the challenge social financiers set themselves, and social impact analysis is needed to help them rise to meet it.
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Private Equity Fund Leapfrog Exits From Kenyan Insurer
Private equity fund LeapFrog Investments has exited a Kenyan insurance firm in which it first injected capital in 2011.
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IMJ Investment Partners’ Koichi Saito: Bopping to the BoP startup
Koichi Saito, Director, IMJ Investment Partners doesn’t think Manila needs Google Glass
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RSF Social Finance Makes a Loan to Madécasse
RSF is pleased to announce a new loan to Madécasse, a social enterprise that makes chocolate and vanilla products in Africa. RSF provided a line of credit that will allow Madécasse to finance their inventory purchases and assist with cash flow gaps throughout the year.
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