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Gates Foundation Alters Course in Pursuit of Breakthroughs: New Grand Challenges reflect that innovation and scale go hand in hand
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted its Grand Challenges Annual Meeting last week and announced three new challenges ... with a twist. Going forward, applicants will be required to partner with manufacturers, biomedical companies or others with expertise in product development before Gates will fund a project.
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- Health Care
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- impact investing, scale
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MBAs Drive Social Impact In Corporate Venture Capital Funds
Business school graduates are pioneering corporate venturing – venture capital funds run inside large companies that invest in social enterprises.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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Business Schools Foster Social Impact And Entrepreneurship
Business schools are catering for social entrepreneurs and MBA students who want to make a social impact – through funding, education and start-up incubation.
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- Impact Assessment
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Michael & Susan Dell Foundation Invests In Social Enterprise Kinara Capital
@Michael_and has made an undisclosed amount of equity investment in Bangalore based social enterprise, Kinara Capital.
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- Impact Assessment
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- South Asia
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- impact investing
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OPINION: F.B. Heron Foundation’s Big Shift to Impact Investing Is Moving Along. Where’s the Money Going?
The F.B. Heron Foundation is way out front on impact investing, with its goal of putting the foundation’s full endowment into social impact investments by 2017. So how's it going?
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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UN, World Bank and Islamic Development Bank commit 8billion dollars in Major New Development Initiative for the Horn of Africa
Leaders of global and regional institutions today begin an historic trip to the Horn of Africa to pledge political support and major new financial assistance for countries in the region, totaling more than $8 billion over the coming years.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Venture Capital Firm Invests in Start-Ups With a Social Mission
When the co-founders of SolarCity, Lyndon and Peter Rive, along with their cousin Elon Musk, were raising money for their solar energy start-up in 2007, they called on just one outside investor.
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- Investing
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Connecting Assets to Impact: ImpactAssets 50 showcases private fund managers that deliver social and environmental impact as well as financial returns
The ImpactAssets 50 - whose 2014 edition was released last week - is an annual showcase of 50 private fund managers that deliver social and environmental impact as well as financial returns. Its free, searchable database provides filtering by asset class, geographic region and issue area, and gives a detailed overview of each firm.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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