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Dasra Philanthropy Week 2014: Urgency in gender equality
Dasra hosted its fifth annual Philanthropy Week from March 5-7. It convened more than 600 prominent philanthropists, corporations and impact investors to catalyze funding to India’s social sector. And as Nilima Achwal explains, Dasra has made a notable strategic shift to focus on adolescent girl empowerment.
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- Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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Impact Investing: Building on Strong Foundations in the U.S.
Impact investing in the U.S. has a rich history and established communities of practice -- spanning community finance, socially responsible investment, micro-finance, housing finance, environmental finance, small business finance in underserved "emerging domestic markets," sustainable development and, more recently, social finance, which explicitly ties investment returns to social outcomes using tools like "pay for success."
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- Impact Assessment
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Making Money While Making The World A Better Place
For those who may not be as familiar with the term, impact investments “are investments made into companies, organizations, and funds with the intention to generate a measurable, beneficial social and environmental impact alongside a financial return.”
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- Impact Assessment
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Digital survey could change global impact investing priorities
Impact investing is all about meeting needs. It places capital in businesses that provide human essentials such as water, power, food, education and healthcare. At the same time, it helps meet the needs of the planet and its non-human inhabitants by fostering business approaches that protect ecosystems and conserve natural resources.
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- Impact Assessment
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Weekly Roundup – 3/8/14: Why ‘women’s empowerment’ impacts much more than 51% of the population
This week we didn’t need a bloodhound to pick up on the trail of enterprises and nonprofits that advance the cause of women and girls, advancing the world economy in the process.
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The Major Hurdles to Impact Investing
mpact investing faces too many challenges to be adopted by institutional investors en masse, according to Hewitt EnnisKnupp.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Goldman Floats World Bank $50 million for Fund to Help Women Entrepreneurs
The new venture, called the Women Entrepreneurs Opportunity Facility, aims to help close the estimated $300 billion credit gap that the IFC says exists for women-owned businesses.
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Opinion: Can ‘Impact Investors’ Save the Day for Cleantech Entrepreneurs?
The impact investing concept is differentiated from other related concepts like ESG (environment-social-governance) in that it involves proactive investments designed to make a positive difference.
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- Energy, Environment, Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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