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At Echoing Green’s Inaugural Global Conference in Mumbai: With 400 million without electricity, you can’t talk in small numbers here
For the first time ever, Echoing Green’s annual Fellows conference – five days that bring together fellows from all over the world to collaborate and learn from each other – was not held in the U.S. Instead, it took place, in the words Cheryl Dorsey, president of the social finance and support organization, in Mumbai, India - the “exciting global center for social enterprise.”
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PRESS RELEASE: Agora Fund Will Bring Rigor of Investing to Philanthropy
Innovative new social enterprise will work with donors and nonprofits to apply the rigor, transparency and ease of a for-profit investment platform to the world of charitable giving.
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500 Startups’ $10M fund will invest in mobile health in India, China, Africa
A $10 million micro fund that will make investments in early and growth stage mobile startups, including mobile health, got started this week.
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How China is reshaping global development finance
The BRICS Development Bank, the AIIB and the Silk Road Fund – recent initiatives spearheaded by China that symbolize its growing influence in development funding and potential new sources of financing, says Rajiv Biswas.
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10 Things You Need To Know About Social And Environmental Investing
Responsible investing has undergone a radical shift, investors are demanding more of their financial advisors, and regulators are struggling to keep up, say experts.
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U.S. managed assets with socially responsible criteria rise
The share of U.S. managed assets invested with environmental, social or similar criteria rose 50 percent over the past two years, a foundation that tracks the field said, because of new disclosure standards and client concern about areas like climate change.
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Blurring the Boundaries: How impact investing is shifting paradigms in the public, philanthropic and nonprofit sectors
As impact investing has grown, it has begun to reshape traditional approaches to financing socially focused initiatives – sometimes to the point where paradigms start to shift. In part two of his series on new frontiers in impact investing, William Burckart discusses the implications of these changes for the public, philanthropic and nonprofit sectors.
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OPINION: The Shift From Promotion to Pragmatism in Impact Investing
Gone are the heady headlines proclaiming the birth of a trillion dollar asset class. Instead, we are seeing substantive attempts to overcome challenges to sector growth.
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