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Social innovation means business becoming a force for good
Business needs to reconnect with the community and better serve society, Terry Slavin reports from the Guardian Sustainable Business Quarterly workshop
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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8 Defining Milestones in India’s Social Enterprise Landscape
As India celebrates its 67th year of freedom on Thursday (Aug. 15), it seems poignant to pause and reflect on eight milestones that have played an important role in shaping India’s social enterprise landscape and the lessons they teach us.
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- Energy, Social Enterprise
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Small loans a big help for typhoon survivors in the Philippines
The typhoon affected more than 13 million people, including 5 million children, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Even before the storm, nearly 44% of Filipinos lived on less than $2 day and there are now fewer resources than ever to help those in need.
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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What’s Next for Impact Investing : How to bridge the ‘Pioneer Gap’ and support entrepreneurs in the earliest stages
Announcements of impact-branded seed funds and investor networks have become so commonplace they no longer seem novel. However, the fact is most are structured to only invest in companies that are already succeeding and ready to scale. The resulting Pioneer Gap – best captured in the Monitor Group and Acumen Fund’s “From Blueprint to Scale” report – has been exposed.
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- Investing
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- impact investing
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What’s Next for Impact Investing? The Value of a Formal Fund Structure To Maximize Impact
Impact investing has been building momentum both in the United States and abroad, promising to be a new model for sustainable development. Numerous reports in the past two years have pointed out the growth of the industry. Yet despite this promise, the industry faces many challenges. Here’s what some organizations are doing to address these challenges.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- impact investing
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Why won’t corporations invest in socially conscious startups?
Though social impact investing is a growing asset class, corporations aren't buying into the promise of sustainability – yet.
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- Impact Assessment
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Incofin Investment Management endorses need for agricultural finance by launching new $200 million agRIF fund
Incofin Investment Management (IM) is seeking to raise around USD 200 million for its new agRIF fund which will focus on the unmet global demand for financial services that target smallholder farmers.
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- Agriculture
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Unitus Seed Fund India Receives SEBI Approval for Impact Investing
Ravi Venkatesan joins as Venture Partner; Atul Bindal joins investment committee.
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- Uncategorized
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