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Banking on Impact: Building the business case for social and environmental due diligence in lending
Conducting social and environmental due diligence can be a challenge, but Root Capital has found that its financial costs are surprisingly low, and its financial benefits surprisingly large. It has published scorecards and methodology that other financial institutions can use to partially avoid the fixed costs of developing their own due diligence tools.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Impact Assessment
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- impact investing, lending
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The Biggest Social Impact Bond In The U.S. Will Keep At-Risk Young Men In Jobs And Out Of Prison
A new type of philanthropic investment is coming into vogue. Its biggest test just launched in Massachusetts.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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South Africa’s Treasury Investigating Financing Social Bonds
The treasury is looking into the feasibility of using an experimental financing mechanism, social impact bonds, to help boost small businesses and job creation
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- Impact Assessment
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Govt creating India Inclusive Innovation Fund with initial corpus of $80M
Registered as venture capital entity, it is targeting to take the total investible funds to around $800 million in two years.
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- Health Care
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Weekly Roundup 2/1/14: Us and Them: Poverty goes mainstream in the U.S. – can financial innovation help?
The majority of Americans will spend at least a year in or near poverty between the ages of 25 and 60. And four out of five will encounter one or more poverty-related conditions in their lifetime. It’s clear that poverty isn’t just a major problem in the developing world. That’s why NextBillion is expanding our coverage to forward-thinking business solutions to domestic poverty.
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- Impact Assessment
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Innovative New Initiative from JPMorgan Chase to Catalyze Investment in Low- and Moderate-Income Communities
$33 million to help CDFIs across the country build capacity.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Online microfinance platform RangDe invites equity investments for social benefit
A not-for-profit company, infused with the commitment and passion of 'jholawala' NGOs and adorned by the rigour and trappings of a true-blue business entity, is inviting equity investments from donors-investors with the promise of returning their principal anytime they want after two years.
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- Impact Assessment
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PRESS RELEASE: Root Capital Highlights Business Case for Social, Environmental Due Diligence in Investment Decisions
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 28 /CSRwire/ - Root Capital, a nonprofit agricultural lender, today released a new issue brief detailing the financial benefits linked to conducting due diligence on the social and environmental practices of its borrowers.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Impact Assessment
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