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Bumps and Slowdowns in UK Social Impact Bonds
At a recent program of Georgetown Law School and Independent Sector on the for-profit social enterprise dynamic in the U.S., the gap between the hype and the reality of social impact bonds was evident
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PRESS RELEASE: Accion Venture Lab Invests in RevolutionCredit
Accion, a pioneer and leader in financial inclusion, today announced an investment in the financial capability and behavioral-credit insight company RevolutionCredit, through Accion Venture Lab, a $10 million initiative dedicated to providing seed capital and management support to financial inclusion start-ups.
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7 Things We’ve Learned About Impact Investing in 7 Years
Today, our new e-book, The Power of Impact Investing: Putting Markets to Work for Profit and Global Good, hit the digital shelves. This e-book has been in the making since 2007, when the term "impact investing" was first coined at a convening hosted by the Rockefeller Foundation at our Bellagio Conference Center. Seven years later, we are proud that impact investments are punching bigger than the weight of those two words, providing a vibrant and viable option for investors looking to generate both financial return and make social or environmental impact.
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Housing for the base of the pyramid in Brazil: a future without slums
7 key themes and messages to generate innovative and holistic approaches to making slums in Brazil a thing of the past
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A Small Drop in a Large Bucket: The World Economic Forum’s Abigail Noble, on why impact investing needs to go mainstream
In 2012, less than $40 billion of capital had been committed to impact investments - out of tens of trillions in global capital. The World Economic Forum’s Mainstreaming Impact Investing initiative wants to help change that. In part 1 of our Impact Investing Insights series, we spoke with the initiative’s leader, Abigail Noble, about how to bring “$40 billion” a bit closer to “tens of trillions.”
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How millennials are driving the momentum behind impact investing
A generational shift happening, and it means only good things for those of us who are working to solve global problems. More individuals, many of them millennials, bring a strong sense of purpose to how they make their money, how they spend it, and how they invest it.
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Impact Investors Still Chasing A Too-Small Pool Of Companies
Interest in impact investing continues to increase, even as investors report a shortage of promising opportunities.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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BLOG: Momentum Builds for 100 Percent Impact Investment Movement
When I first started working in impact investing, the field's challenges were foundational: refining the concept, finding suitable investments, figuring out how to measure impact, even determining what to call the concept. Work in all those areas continues, but the field has matured to the point where it's on the agenda of the G8, finance conglomerates feel they need to have an impact product, and the mainstream business press is taking notice (if skeptically). N
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