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Press Release: U.S. Small Business Administration’s Impact Investment Fund Grows Threefold in Last 12 Months
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced today that the Impact Investment Fund of the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program has tripled in the last 12 months.
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- Education, Energy, Technology
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NexThought Monday – When it Comes to Social Enterprise, It’s Time to Take Ourselves Seriously
It is entirely possible that all of the ideas that we need to end global poverty are in place; however, we have so enthusiastically embraced the financial market metaphor that even the initiatives that must cooperate to succeed can’t do so fully because they are required to compete. There is an old and tired story to be inserted here about the balkanizing influence of competing for funding but instead of focusing on that, I would like to suggest a solution.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Twitter Top Ten – 1-25-15
It was an eventful week in global development - it almost always is. But this week featured a number of particularly important developments, ranging from Bill and Melinda Gates’ trend-shaping annual letter, to some significant new research on microcredit’s impact on poverty. These developments are featured - along with cute rats and an inspiring student - in our weekly top 10 list.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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Choosing an Investment Model for India’s Medical Devices Industry
This year, India’s medical devices industry will be opened up to 100 percent foreign direct investment (FDI). The move had been in the works for some time – India’s union cabinet met last year to discuss the reform, while the industry’s regulatory framework has been tweaked several times since it was first introduced in 2005.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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PRESS RELEASE: National Advisory Board on Impact Investing Names Darren Walker As New Chair
Today the U.S. National Advisory Board on Impact Investing (NAB) named Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation, as the new Chair, joining the leadership team that includes Matt Bannick, Managing Partner at Omidyar Network, and Tracy Palandjian, CEO of Social Finance US.
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- Impact Assessment
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Canadian Responsible Investments Surpass $1 Trillion Says 2014 Trends Report
The value of Canadian investments managed under “responsible investing” criteria climbed dramatically over two years as money managers increasingly added environmental, social or governance factors to their investment decisions.
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- Impact Assessment
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Announcing NextBillion’s Latest E-book (and the first from NextBillion Financial Innovation): A compilation of posts and videos from our Impact Investing Insights series
In the spring of 2014, NextBillion Financial Innovation videotaped interviews with 11 top investors, academics and advocates working in impact investing. We published the Q&As in a series called Impact Investing Insights. We have compiled the posts and videos into this e-book, which covers a broad cross-section of the topics and trends that drive the sector today.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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World Bank to Commit $1 Billion to “Clean India” Program
World Bank today said it will commit USD 1 billion in the government's Swachh Bharat (Clean India) campaign. World Bank's country director in India Onno Ruhl said the World Bank is considering considerable large sums of financing for that.
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- Uncategorized
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- South Asia
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- impact investing
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